ZogoTech's Pathways Analytics:

Award every credential your students have already earned - and get the rest to the finish line faster.

Manual audits only ever reach a fraction of students. Pathways Analytics checks every student against every credential – declared or not, every single night, without ever touching your live SIS – keeping students on the fastest path to a credential and a family-sustaining wage.

What can colleges accomplish when no student can slip through the cracks?

Getting every student to completion is harder than it should be.

Not for lack of effort – the data just isn’t built to make it easy.

No one could do this by hand. That's the whole problem.

A single college can have 100 million student-credential combinations to check. Running that once a year by hand is impossible – let alone every night. Degree audit tools only check a thin slice: declared programs, a fraction of students. Everything outside that slice stays invisible. And every student lives in that blind spot.

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Are they registered for courses that don't count toward their path?

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Is there a shorter, higher-paying program they'd be better off in?

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Have they already earned a credential no one has awarded them?

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Do they have a clear line of sight to a family-sustaining wage - or are they guessing?

Your students are doing the hard work with the cards stacked against them. The least the data can do is keep up.

Pathways checks all of it – every student, every credential, every night – so nothing about a student’s path stays hidden.

Every student. Every credential. Every night.

See every student’s true path – and get them to the finish line quicker. With Pathways Analytics, no students can slip through the cracks: you’ll catch all of the finished students still waiting to be awarded, the off-path terms about to be wasted, and the credentials sitting one course away. All of it, up to date, available within seconds, and off your live SIS.

  • Each student is measured against every degree, certificate, and stackable credential in your catalog – so a completion can never hide behind a major.
  • Your substitutions, catalog years, and program requirements drive every audit, so what it finds is exactly what you’d award.
  • Joins degree-audit logic to aid, holds, and momentum – so every finding lands with the context to act on it now.
  • Advisors, registrars, and deans pull their own completer, near-completer, and off-path lists in minutes – no IR, no IT, no SQL.
Live audit · 100M pathways evaluated
Awarded · credential conferred
Near-completer · 2 courses remaining
Off-path · taking non-applicable credits
Ready to award · never applied
Stackable credential · eligible now
Final course · graduating this term

Every finding, turned into an action - for your students and your funding.

Surfacing the students is only step one. Pathways Analytics turns each finding into a specific move your team can make – a credential to award, a nudge to send, an off-path term to head off.

01 · Capture

Capture the credentials students already earned.

Every student is measured against every credential in your catalog.

  • Surfaces students who've already met every requirement for a degree or certificate they never applied for - completions that would otherwise sit unclaimed.
  • Catches the alternate and stackable credentials a student qualifies for along the way - not just their primary path.
  • National Student Clearinghouse integration allows you to flag reverse-transfer associate degrees for students who moved on to a university but already earned the credential back home.
The difference Because the audit ignores what's "declared," it finds completions a program-by-program check never would.
02 · Complete

Turn near-completers and stop-outs into graduates.

It doesn't just say who's close - it shows exactly what's left.

  • Pinpoints "just one more class" students, so a single, specific nudge turns almost-done into done this term.
  • Gives students in their final courses the visibility to get support before a last-term stumble costs them a year.
  • Re-engages stop-outs with their exact remaining requirements in hand - "finish these two courses and you graduate," not "please come back."
The difference Every remaining-requirement list applies your substitutions and catalog year - so the plan you hand a student is the plan that actually awards.
03 · Stay on path

Keep students on-path - and schedule to real demand.

It watches the path forward, not just the finish line.

  • Flags off-path enrollment the day it happens - before a student burns a term, and a semester of aid, on courses that don't count.
  • Forecasts how many seats each course truly needs by reading where students actually are on their pathways - not last year's fill rates.
  • Applies your course substitutions, catalog years, and program rules to every audit - so what it shows matches how you really award.
The difference Scheduling built from live pathway demand opens the right sections - and clears bottlenecks before they form.

Answers to the questions your team asks every day - in seconds.

Pick a goal – Pathways Analytics already answers the questions underneath it.

What is this student's apparent program, based on the courses they're actually taking?
For an underfilled course, which students still need it for their program?
What course sequences have successful students taken?
How many seats do I need for each course next semester?
Which courses are the bottlenecks in my program?
Pathways Analytics enrollment and retention view
Which of my students are registered for an off-path course that could delay their degree?
Based on course-taking behavior, what program is this student really pursuing?
Which students are struggling with the last courses they need to graduate?
Which students are a couple credits from stacking another credential — and a higher wage?
Student academic progress view in ZogoTech
Which students could graduate this semester?
Who has already completed the requirements for a credential — declared or not?
Who's close to completing a credential and just needs a nudge?
Who was 1–2 classes from a credential but transferred to a university? (reverse transfer)
Improving graduation rates in ZogoTech Navigator

Frequently Asked Questions

Pathways Analytics, answered.

What is ZogoTech Pathways Analytics?
ZogoTech Pathways Analytics is the completion engine built for community colleges. Every night, it checks every student against every credential your college offers - declared or not - to surface who has already earned an award, who is one or two courses away, and who has drifted off their pathway. It turns credentials students have already earned into graduations, funding, and a faster finish.
How does it find credentials students have earned but were never awarded?
It audits every student's completed coursework against the requirements for every credential your college offers, not just the program a student declared. Because that audit runs automatically every night across your whole enrollment, it catches students who have met the requirements for a certificate or degree - often outside their declared major - and were never awarded it. Colleges routinely discover hundreds or thousands of these the first time they run it.
How is it different from our degree audit system?
A degree audit tool checks a student against the program they declared, usually one student at a time and on demand. Pathways Analytics checks every student against every credential, declared or not, automatically every night. That difference is what surfaces the hidden completers - the students who qualified for an award they never applied for, or a credential in a program they were never enrolled in. See the full side-by-side on our Pathways comparison page.
How does it identify near-completers, students a course or two from finishing?
Pathways Analytics ranks every student by how close they are to a credential, so you can see exactly who is one or two courses from finishing. Instead of guessing, your advisors get a prioritized list - the students most worth a call this term - and can reach them before they stop out a few credits short.
Can it catch students who are off their pathway before they waste a term?
Yes. Pathways Analytics compares what a student is actually taking against the credentials they are closest to completing, and flags when someone is drifting onto courses that will not count toward a finish. Catching that before registration means the student spends the next term on courses that move them toward a credential - not a wasted term of time and aid.
Who is it built for?
Community colleges focused on completion - registrars, institutional research, guided-pathways and completion teams, and advising. Because it is built for the two-year context, it understands stackable credentials, certificates embedded within degrees, and the awards students earn along the way, rather than a generic four-year model.
What does connecting found credentials to funding look like?
Every credential Pathways Analytics surfaces is a student you can graduate and, in many states, a completion you can count toward performance-based or outcomes-based funding. Colleges use it to award certificates and degrees students had already earned, which raises completion numbers and the funding tied to them - without enrolling a single additional student.
Will it disrupt or slow our student information system?
No. ZogoTech runs its nightly audit on its own data warehouse - refreshed from your systems overnight - rather than on the student information system your staff use during the day, so checking your entire student body against every credential does not compete with daily operations. At North Central Texas College, that comes to roughly 800,000 audits every night.
How much work is it for our staff to run?
Very little. The audit runs automatically every night and hands your team a prioritized list of who has finished, who is close, and who is off track - with no queries to write and no reports to request. Staff spend their time acting on the results rather than producing them.
What results have community colleges seen with Pathways Analytics?
Colleges consistently find credentials hiding in their own data. Collin College surfaced more than 2,000 credentials students had earned but never received, Dallas College found roughly 1,800, and Kilgore College found more than 500 in its first year. Odessa College increased its graduates by 253% after putting its data to work.

In their words

How community colleges are getting more students to the finish – and capturing the funding to match.

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We identified of over 2,000 students who had completed their degree, certificate, core completion, or other program requirements but had not yet been awarded for them.

David MaloneDirector, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
Collin College
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In one term, Pathways flagged 300+ possible completers, 400+ near-completers, and 500+ off-path students.

Patrick SangerDean/Executive Director of IER
Alvin College
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With Pathways Analytics, we’ve shifted from labor-intensive data processing to focusing on ensuring our students are successful. This tool allows us to operate more efficiently and effectively, ensuring that we can support our students and improve their outcomes.

Dr. G Brent WallacePresident
North Central Texas College
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We get funding based on students reaching milestones toward a credential of value. We need to maximize that funding to be able to continue to do what we do best, which is focus on student success.

Dr. Staci MartinPresident
Kilgore College
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We identified of over 2,000 students who had completed their degree, certificate, core completion, or other program requirements but had not yet been awarded for them.

David MaloneDirector, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
Collin College
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In one term, Pathways flagged 300+ possible completers, 400+ near-completers, and 500+ off-path students.

Patrick SangerDean/Executive Director of IER
Alvin College
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With Pathways Analytics, we’ve shifted from labor-intensive data processing to focusing on ensuring our students are successful. This tool allows us to operate more efficiently and effectively, ensuring that we can support our students and improve their outcomes.

Dr. G Brent WallacePresident
North Central Texas College
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We get funding based on students reaching milestones toward a credential of value. We need to maximize that funding to be able to continue to do what we do best, which is focus on student success.

Dr. Staci MartinPresident
Kilgore College

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