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Decision Academic Student Services enable students to take control of their academic studies by providing them with Academic Planning, Audit, Registration, Transfer & Articulation and access to Catalog Information.
Gone are the days when colleges and universities laid out rigid, structured programs that students adhered to throughout their time at the institution. Today, institutions are focused on delivering greater access, choice and flexibility, offering degree programs with a broad spectrum of options and choices which can be tailored to the needs of each individual student.
Transfer credits are being used to attract and retain the best students. Institutional offerings are enriched with distance learning from virtually all over the world. And finally, institutions are increasingly co-operating with other institutions to both leverage their offerings and deliver more choice to their students. Students today can customize their studies to meet their exact requirements.
For students the choice and flexibility being offered, while enticing, often leaves them frustrated as they have neither the information nor the power to act on that information. This leaves them unable to take control of their education and take full advantage of the flexibility and diversity their institutions have to offer.
Academic Student Services simplify this process. Simple questions like "What courses can I take" and "How am I doing", are paired with the ability to act with functions like "Register Me" and "Change my Degree." Manual systems run out of a registrar's office can quickly become complex and mired in bureaucratic "red tape". Easy-to-use, automated Student Services allow students to fully realize the benefits being offered by their institutions.
Institutions have three options:
Student Information Systems:
SIS's often come with academic Student Services capabilities, but these frequently fall short of student expectations. The reason is simple - these are transaction-based solutions focused on the needs of administration, not students. They are complex and powerful, but require extensive training to use. Customization is either impossible or simply too expensive.
Point Solutions:
These products, while highly functional, can become burdensome and fail to meet student expectations in any of the following ways:
Functionality not integrated (you cannot do an audit using one supplier's product on an academic plan built with another)
Products from different suppliers result in an inconsistent UI.
Fragmented User Experience - Students are not satisfied with jumping to a number of different systems to answer what they perceive to be a simple question
Multiple SIS integration points can create tremendous overhead for your IT organization and result in data synchronization challenges
Decision Academic's Integrated Suite:
Only Decision Academic is focused on solving these problems with a single integrated suite of academic Student Services:
Decision Academic products deliver on the requirements of both administrators and students; Degree Navigator Plus (for major colleges & universities) and eCampus Navigator (for state & system wide institutions). Administrators provide more services to more students with greater efficiency, providing students with self-service access to deliver a richer, more diverse educational experience. |
