Mysuccess On-Line Student Educational Planning

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Mysuccess On-Line Student Educational Planning

KPlus2 is a creative, passionate, savvy development company offering add-on tools and hosting for Kuali Student. Our goal is to make an institution's adoption of Kuali Student effective and efficient.

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 1 5 September 2015 Cath Dew Norm Wright With 20 years of information systems design and A graduate of MIT with 30 years of experience, development experience, Cathy’s expertise is in Norm Wright understands the complex technical analysis, information organization, and interaction and business issues involved in developing high design. Cathy holds a Bachelor of Arts in quality applications for the higher ed community. Architecture and Master of Science in Computer & Having developed systems in all domains of Information Systems from the University of Florida. student administrative software he retains a detailed understanding of cross-cutting higher ed Cathy heads up analytic design and consulting requirements. His ability to communicate complex services for clients such as University of California technical concepts to business users while writing Berkeley, Port of Oakland, and the Dairy Council of cutting edge “code” for programmers ensures crisp California. She joined Kuali Student in 2007 as solutions that work for the business. business analyst, concept modeler and service architect. She is passionate about Kuali, Service A strong proponent of Service Oriented Oriented Architecture and with KPlus2 looks Architecture he participated in the initial meetings forward to bringing this powerful application to form the Kuali Student project. Norm is currently solution set to the education sector. working as a service architect for Kuali Student helping to design the infrastructure for the Cathy is also President of 2Plus2 Partners, a Enrollment Management Module. He is also software consulting and development company, working with Boston College to install Kuali based in Emeryville, California. Student’s Curriculum Management Module and with MIT helping develop MC3, a federated learning objective management system pointing to on-line digital content.

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 2 5 September 2015 KPLUS2 JUMPSTART PROGRAM

Designed to get your Kuali Student Curriculum Management implementation project off the group fast!

For the fixed price you will receive a Kuali Student OK so what do we actually get? Curriculum Management system loaded with all your basic data and some example configurations Specifically you will leave with: to match your school. You can then take this system and source code and use it to complete 1. A hosted instance with your school’s basic your school's implementation. configuration, accessible for 3 months Why would I want to do this?  Styled with your logo and your school's colors Our experience helping schools implement Kuali  Filled with your data and labeled with your Student CM is that the hardest part is just getting terminology started. Months are lost getting this basic configuration done. Only after this is done can 2. A bundled war file that you can deploy on business users really look at the system with a your own school's servers critical eye. Only when viewing the system with 3. A zip file containing the source code needed your school’s own data and your school’s labels to create that bundled war and to use that as and terminology can business users really kick the the basis for your additional configurations tires, understand what’s possible and decide how your school's data and processes do and don’t 4. A database export with your basic data align with how Kuali Student’s “out-of-the-box” including configuration.  Organizational Structure Our goal is to make this initial configuration as  Subject Areas (course number prefix) seamless as possible. With KPlus2’s JumpStart  Term Structure (ATPs) and durations schools can focus your resources where it really  List of Campuses counts, implementing the configuration and  Degree and Credential Types integration issues that are really critical to make  Course activity types Kuali Student CM work for you. Our experience is  Grading Systems that once this initial configuration is done schools  Configure up to 15 named users to have been able to move quickly and surely exercise workflow through the rest of their implementation.  Basic data on up to 1000 of your school's Sounds exciting but exactly how courses – Excludes loading of requisite rules (pre-req's, co-req's) except as free does it all work? form text After you sign up for KPlus2’s JumpStart program,  Basic data on your degree programs – you follow these simple steps: Excludes loading of the requirement rules for your degree programs, except for one 1. Your fill in a series specially formatted on-line manually loaded “sample” case to configuration spreadsheets (googledocs) with illustrate the power of CM’s structured your data and requirements... we take it from programs there.  Field labels matching your school's 2. Within days you will see your data live in our terminology own hosted version of Kuali Student 5. Example configurations done specifically 3. You can then review the system with your for your school configurations  Dictionary overrides to validate the data to

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 3 5 September 2015 4. If what you see doesn't match what you were your lengths and allowed character expecting when you made your configurations requirements we will do it again!  One "dynamic” field to track an additional 5. Once complete we will prepare exports of the data required by your school data and source code configurations for you to  One example logging overlay showing take and use at your site. you how to capture changes made to courses that you can use as the basis for integration with the rest of your systems 6. Updated user documentation matching the configurations we do for you and that you can take and enhance to match additional configurations you make 7. On site training*  Eight hours of on-site technical training for your own developers to teach them how to make the configurations themselves.  Eight hours on-site user training for your own training staff (train the trainers) 8. Twenty hours of remote technical and user support via skype or phone *Travel expenses not included in the fixed price and will be billed for separately at coach cost

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 4 5 September 2015 KPlus2’s Community College Edition of Kuali Student’s Curriculum Management is specially configured to meet the needs of community colleges. Designed by and for community colleges, it supports entrance assessments, instructor qualifications, contextualized adult ed programs in addition to full course and program definitions including requirements (rules), fees and financial data and codified learning outcomes. Backed by role-based, data field level security and configurable workflow, KPlus2’s Community College Edition streamlines the process for your faculty, minimizes errors and minimizes inconsistencies across course and program definitions.

KPlus2 offers both a simple hosted solution for individual community colleges as well as multi-tenant solution for community college systems. In either case we leverage the built-in Kuali Student architecture so you can exchange information with your peers and your state chancellor’s office in real-time.

We provide configuration, implementation, training, hosting and dedicated support to ensure that you can proactively manage your network of courses, programs, certificates and degrees from inception through approval to your online catalog.

Learning Outcome Tools MySuccess On-line Student Educational Planning Using KPlus2’s Learning Outcome tools you can track and map learning outcomes between KPlus2’s MySuccess is a specially configured courses, programs and institution-based and hosted version of Kuali Student’s Academic accreditation standards to help make sure that your Planning Tool. MySuccess provides on-line curriculum meets state criteria and more important, educational planning customized specifically for serves the student population. community college students and their advisors. Student’s can leverage Kuali Student’s power to plan their personal path from high school to your community college and on into the workforce or a four year academic program.

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 5 5 September 2015 Mobile Applications for your Kuali Integration with MIT's Core Course Catalog Concept Catalog

Students are mobile these days and your course MIT has developed a unique platform for catalog needs to be mobile as well. KPlus2’s managing learning objectives from a faculty’s mobile application allows your students to find perspective. MIT’s Core Concept Catalog or MC3 courses on any phone, tablet or even laptop allows faculty to map concepts into a topic because it is based on the Kuali Enterprise Mobile hierarchy using graphical tools, attach specific platform. KPlus2’s course catalog does more than outcomes to these topics and then link them on- put your paper catalog on-line. It allows students line content. In addition to supporting traditional to navigate all the interrelationships of your residential college curricular planning it was curriculum. While looking at a course a student designed from the ground up to integrate with K- can easily jump to it’s pre-requisites or bounce 12 educational content from organizations such as forward to it’s follow-on courses. She can see how CK12 and the Kahn Academy as well MOOCs this course fits into her degree program and find from EdX. MIT’s MC3 brings that learning

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 6 5 September 2015 other courses that meet that same requirement. If objective perspective and makes it the center of she likes the instructor, she is one tap away from your curriculum planning. finding other courses taught by that same professor. The KPlus2 mobile experience brings KPlus2 not only helped MIT develop this together the best to both technologies – Kuali revolutionary platform but also developed a plugin Mobile Enterprise and Kuali Student. to integrate MIT’s platform with Kuali Student. To learn more about MIT’s Core Concept Catalog, Check out the Registered Nursing Program at: see http://mc3.mit.edu/ http://mobilekuali.elasticbeanstalk.com

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Learning Objective Mapping Tools

KPlus2 offers two unique tools for mapping relationships between learning objectives that are originally authored in Kuali Student’s Curriculum Management System. Both tools allow you to map objectives defined at the course level, showing how they relate to and support objectives at the program level. One provides a tree- view lens giving you a bird’s eye view of your whole curriculum and all of it’s complex relationships. The other takes a matrix view suitable for mapping relationships for accreditation. Used together or separately these tools provide a learning objective centric view of your educational offerings.

From www.kplus2.com/#Home 7 5 September 2015

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