Most performance initiatives take years to have an impact. With ZogoTech, your institution can leverage cutting edge data analytics tools to reduce time to completion and increase completion rates for your current students.
In states where community colleges receive performance-based funding, the stakes for accurately awarding all earned certificates and degrees become even higher.
The importance of addressing these hurdles cannot be overstated. Every unawarded credential costs students opportunities and institutions potential revenue.
A community college with 10,000 students, 6 catalog years, 100 programs, and stackable credentials can easily have 100 million different student pathways. This makes it extremely difficult to both keep students on path, and identify students who have completed the requirements for a credential (declared or not).
Some colleges have hacked their degree audit system, but that approach only works for a few hundred students at a time, puts a tremendous burden on the SIS, isn’t done in real-time, and only shows percent complete, not the classes each student needs to complete.
It’s nearly impossible to keep students on path because degree audit type data is kept in silos that are difficult to access and too complex to quickly combine with other student success data.
Most colleges manually run degree audits on a student-by-student basis. Because this process takes so long, colleges only look at a subset of students – often-times missing others who have earned credentials yet to be awarded.
History of Credentials Found at NCTC
Considered the "easy button" for maximizing performance-based funding, identify students who have already completed the requirements for a credential - declared or not - but they have yet to be awarded.
Stop-out students represent a valuable pool of potential for performance-based funding. Identify students 1 - 4 courses away from completing a credential and help them return to finish their education.
Some performance-based funding comes from achieving outcomes other than degrees, for example getting 15 credit hours or completing the core. Rest assured knowing you can track and award all certificates.
Use our National Student Clearinghouse integration to identify students who transferred to a university while being 1 - 4 courses away from completing a credential.
Speed time to degree by identifying students who could complete the requirements for a credential, declared or not, if they enrolled in just one more course this term.
Speed time to degree by identifying when students register for an off-path course - or when they are closer to completing the requirements of different or higher-demand program.
