College Success Faculty Training
June 25-26, 2008


Frequently Asked Questions about CollegeScope

This document provides the basics of logging in, adding students to your account, accessing faculty resources and using the most important features of CollegeScope. 

CollegeScope Common Student Log In Problems and Easy Solutions
If students follow the simple directions for logging in, there should be no problems.  However students may have difficulties because they do not follow the directions.  This document contains the common questions that students ask about logging in along with some simple solutions. 

 

PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint for June 25: features, using technology with New Millennial students, overview, administering the Do What You Are personality inventory and the PEPS learning style inventory, how to get the best results with students, interpreting the assessments. 

PowerPoint for June 26: research on student success, using CollegeScope to improve student success and retention, tips for engaging students in learning, teaching excellence, classroom exercises.

PowerPoint: Introducing CollegeScope: how to introduce CollegeScope to your students, slides of registration pages for each college.

Handouts

Agenda
Contact Information and College Success Website

CollegeScope User's Manual for Lone Star College System

Exercises

Personality Checklist
Paper Airplane Learning Style Exercise
Life Stories
Memory Test
Brainstorming Exercise (Peanut Exercise)
Guess Test
20 Things You Like to Do
Coat of Arms
Work Values Auction
Communication Scenario
Crime and Punishment, Worksheet
Tightwad Gazette
Person Bingo Faculty

Person Bingo Students

Research Articles

Exploring the Evidence: Initiatives in the First College Year, "Cuyamaca College", published by the National Resource Center for The First -Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2008
          This article profiles 22 colleges nationwide with significant results in student
          success.

"America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future", Educational Testing Service (ETS), January 2007
          The three forces changing our nation's future include a lack of literacy and
          numeracy, increasing technological change and globalization, and increasing
          population diversity. 

The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), "Reflections on CSSE's first Five Years, 2007 Findings
          Five strategies that work: 1.  set high expectations and clear goals, 2. focus on
          the front door, 3. elevate developmental education, 4. use engaging
          instructional approaches, 5. make engagement inescapable
          Full Report
          Executive Summary