What is AdvisingConnect?
AdvisingConnect is a university student-advisor relationship management tool—a tool that will continually develop in ways that will put students first and embrace eminence. Developed in 2008 by a partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Education (UE), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), and the College of Arts and Sciences (ASC), the aim of AdvisingConnect is to create a record of a student’s advising contacts — the issues on which he has consulted, the advice with which she has been provided. This “institutional memory” summarizes the student’s past, and access to that information can serve to improve efficiency, increase the continuity and coherence of advisors’ conversations with the student, and provide, for the student, a more personal sense of contact, whether he is seeing the same advisor again, or some other advisor. The record can also provide useful information to other university personnel who are faced with questions (whatever their source) about the student.
Current Feature Highlights
Students are able to view notes written by advisors
Students, which went live on March 28, 2011, are able to login to a designated area and review the notes written by either their academic advisors or other university staff members who have the need to document their advice and/or course of action into an official academic record.
Advising Appointments
The College of Arts and Sciences, our pilot group, is using AdvisingConnect to schedule advising appointments for both current and prospective students. We are in the process of releasing this option to interested colleges across campus. By the end of autumn 2013, we anticipate that students in participating colleges will be able to use AdvisingConnect to schedule their own appointments, in addition to reading their advising notes.
Student Rosters
Advisors are able to, easily and efficiently, view, manipulate (i.e., filter/sort), and send an e-mail to a list of students assigned to them in the SIS. This is the easiest and most efficient way for advisors to obtain a list of assigned students at a moment’s notice. A report is also available for managers to obtain a list of students enrolled in their college who are not assigned to an advisor in their college; this ensures that currently enrolled student’s at Ohio State have an accurate advisor assigned to them in the Student Information System (SIS).
Manage Interactions with Prospective Students
Users, from participating colleges, have the ability to enter in data on an individual, who is not affiliated with Ohio State (i.e., no official Ohio State student ID), so they can schedule an appointment. All users have the access to add a note for a prospective student.
For questions related to access, training, etc. http://u.osu.edu/advisortraining/advising-tools/advisingconnect/frequently-asked-questions/