1. education

Institutional
Effectiveness
for higher education
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Improve Intentionally
Focus + Execution
Without clear focus and precise execution, the best strategic
thinking is meaningless.
Every worthwhile endeavor requires a thoughtful plan, the right people
with the right focus and the ability to execute.
Academic Effect is execution in higher education. It is critically questioning
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alternatives, accurately measuring outcomes, tenaciously following up and
effectively maintaining accountability. It is a systematic process of
focused collaboration resulting in institutional effectiveness.
What is Academic Effect
for higher education?
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At its core, higher education is the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement.
Academic Effect is technology enabling the dedicated people in higher education with
effective collaboration tools to plan for success, implement big ideas and learn from
every experience delivered on campus. Academic Effect provides the structure to discover
and transfer new knowledge, resulting in improved learning experiences and outcomes.
Participants in Academic Effect understand the impact and value of instructional
practices. Academic Effect enables them to collaborate with colleagues in a meaningful
way, to apply the insights gained from implementing thise instructional practices.
Academic Effect will help ensure that every activity on campus directly supports the
highest aspirations of the institution.
Academic Effect engages faculty, staff, administrators and students in a culture of
continuous improvement and promotes active involvement and deep involvement with local,
national and international stakeholders to improve education.
The Academic Effect ecosystem enables effective planning and intentional execution.
It reveals successful methods and effective practices, allowing colleagues to leverage
these discoveries and replicate success. It fortifies thoughtful reflection and when initiatives
fall short, it facilitates and engages the right people in proactive efforts to make
meaningful improvements. Academic Effect provides the information and insights to
allow institutions to recognize priorities and focus on what matters most.
Our technology eliminates wasted time demonstrating performance, allowing people
to focus on actual performance.
Validation
Big Ideas
Learn
People
Institutional
Effectiveness
Process Management
Progress
Alignment
Evidence
Evaluation
Improve Intentionally.
Academic Effect illuminates the pathway to execution.
Strategic Planning
Identify and verify credentials for faculty
and administrators.
Mapping
Perform formative assessment and
evaluation to understand the impact and
value of learning and teaching practices.
Utilize structured templates to evaluate
the effect of activities and strategic
initiatives.
Collaborate with stakeholders to create
comprehensive strategic plans at the
institutional and unit level.
Credentials
Create a visual matrix to identify gaps
and weaknesses in courses, curriculum
and learning experiences.
Assessment
Documentation
Produce accurate and timely reports to
inform decisions, provide transparency and
promote accountability.
Reflection
Efficiently report on institutional effectiveness
and demonstrate achievements in support
of institutional and programmatic
accreditation standards.
Efficiently gather, organize and attach
supporting documentation to demonstrate
performance.
Reporting
Collaborate with colleagues and other
stakeholders to learn from success and
identify opportunities for improvement.
Accreditation
Think Strategic Planning
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Think™ provides a collaborative workspace for managing and executing
Think
Strategic Planning
for higher education
the planning process. Flexible structure provides users with a template
to guide effective planning and analysis for the development and
tracking of strategic goals. Create a historical record while using intuitive
tools for research, analysis and synthesis of information.
Verify Credentials
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Verify™ provides a comprehensive platform for gathering documented
evidence of faculty credentials. Automatically align credentials with
courses taught using systematically coded faculty credentials. Verify
also allows for tracking alternate qualifications and enables users to
provide written justifications to include in faculty reports.
Verify
Credentials
for higher education
Align Mapping
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Align™ generates a visual matrix of student learning objectives, teaching
Align
Mapping
for higher education
approaches, general education and core curriculum. Align™ allows users
to map experiences inside and outside the classroom, such as courses,
practicum, internships, service learning and student-faculty research.
Effect Assessment + Evaluation
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Effect™ is a collaborative workspace for gathering and reporting on
assessment results, improvements achieved and tracking progress
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on strategic initiatives. Effect™ provides custom templates and
well-organized work flow for analysis of findings and the management
Assessment
for higher education
of intentional efforts to improve results.
Document Document Management
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Document™ is a cloud-based file management system for organizing
Document
artifacts and documentation. Users may add, share and associate
added files within projects throughout Academic Effect™.
Evidence
for higher education
Report Reporting + Compliance
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Report™ provides a collection of reporting tools to collect data from
institutional effectiveness activities and compile reports for monitoring
and compliance. Academic Effect™ applications include a collection
of standardized reports for tracking progress, analyzing findings,
measuring performance and predictive reports to inform decision
making. Additional reports for compliance and accreditation simplify the
accreditation process.
Report
Reporting + Compliance
for higher education
Reflect Program Review
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Reflect™ is a powerful learning tool that provides actionable insights to
Reflect
Program Review
for higher education
promote and ensure continuous improvement. Reflect™ will guide an
authentic reflection process among colleagues, resulting in a deeper
understanding of program strengths for improvement. Reflect™ includes
an efficient process, structured templates and customizable reflective
prompts to streamline and simplify the work while providing needed
insights for informed decisions and future planning. Reflect™ guides an
authentic reflection process on past achievements, enabling faculty and
staff to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Affirm Accreditation
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Affirm™ is a collaborative application designed to simplify institutional
and programmatic accreditation. Affirm™ features reporting templates
and process work flow, enabling contributors to draft and review
narrative, attach and reference appropriate supporting evidence and
create well-organized accreditation reports.
Affirm
Accreditation
for higher education
Execute Project Management
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Execute™ is an integrated management tool designed to plan and execute
projects in support of all Academic Effect™ applications. Execute™ will help
Execute
Project Management
for higher education
organize and manage projects from initial planning to completion.
Execute™ provides the ability to create individual tasks, assign resources,
create a schedule and track work in progress.
Structure
Process Management
for higher education
Standards
Institutional
Priorities
Strategic
Initiatives
Core
Curriculum
Courses
Sources of
Evidence
Reflective
Prompts
Improvements
Achieved
Templates
Workflow
Work Groups
Align every activity with institutional objectives and core values.
Structure™ enables colleges to design an institutional effectiveness process and tailor applications
to adapt to that process. Academic Effect™ is flexible and highly customizable to work the way you work.
Academic Effect™ Institutional Collections
Institutional Effectiveness Collection
Institutional
Effectiveness Collection
for higher education
Institutional Accreditation Collection
Institutional
Accreditation Collection
for higher education
Institutional Assessment Collection
Institutional
Assessment Collection
for higher education
Academic Effect™ Programmatic Collections
Programmatic Effectiveness Collection
Programmatic
Effectiveness Collection
for higher education
Programmatic Accreditation Collection
Programmatic
Accreditation Collection
for higher education
Programmatic Assessment Collection
Programmatic
Assessment Collection
for higher education
Academic Effect™ illuminates the pathway to execution
and impacts everyone on campus.
President & Provost
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer
Executive Office
Accreditors
Dean of Academics
Faculty
Institutional Effectiveness
Students
Learning Research
Student Affairs
Human Resources
External Stakeholders
Director of Assessment
Connecting your most valuable asset, your people,
with what matters most, your students.
Student learning is at the center of Academic Effect™
Students
making an impact for
Students
Explicit statements of intentional learning outcomes and focused
measurement of achievements provide a valuable feedback mechanism for
improving program delivery. Internal and external validation of program
quality and disciplinary excellence ensure graduates enter the workplace
with the knowledge and skills required for success.
President & Provost
Chief Financial Officer
Effectively execute strategies for success by aligning all
Eliminate redundant products, training, and costs by
institutional efforts and activities to strategic goals and priorities,
implementing a single system that spans multiple
maintaining long-term focus and monitoring short-term progress.
initiatives and projects at the institution.
Chief Information Officer
Vice President & Dean of Academics
A fully-managed, cloud-based platform eliminates IT requirements,
Build academic programs that serve students with
allowing for reallocation of resources to other projects. A fast,
excellence, capture and showcase faculty credentials
secure platform-as-a-service framework developed using the latest
and achievements, streamline evaluation and tenure
programming protocols ensures seamless integration with
processes, and ensure faculty and program resources
disparate legacy applications.
are allocated appropriately.
Office of Planning & Institutional Effectiveness
Vice President & Dean of Student Affairs
Create a culture of planning and execution that results in
Highlight the impact of student experiences outside the
continuous improvement and simplified accreditation reporting.
classroom and effectively demonstrate how student affairs
Engage the right people in the right process. Reduce wasted time
contributes to the mission, supports institutional priorities
and effort demonstrating performance and enable contributors
and achieves student learning objectives.
to focus on actual performance.
Faculty
Institutional & Learning Research
It’s not about reporting. It’s about student learning. Faculty focus
Understand the value and impact of every student experience.
on what matters most. Academic Effect™ reduces the complexity
Access meaningful information to acquire and transfer new
of required reporting, allowing faculty to perfect their craft.
knowledge related to successful pedagogy and new learning
Academic Effect™ provides planning and assessment tools
theory. Collaborate with key stakeholders to advance the
that are designed to improve learning.
scholarship of teaching and learning.
Human Resources
Director of Assessment
Automate tracking, documentation, and reporting for faculty,
Establish a culture of assessment. Create and manage an
instructional staff, graduate assistants, and administrative staff
effective process that values a diversity of approaches.
credentials. Allow faculty and staff to manage their own
Close the loop using an effective, custom work flow and
professional profile with a comprehensive biography, vitae and
encourage meaningful dialogue and collaboration.
achievements portfolio.
External Stakeholders
Accreditors
Engage external stakeholders who depend upon the institution
Simplify the review and comment process for institutional
to achieve peak performance. The community, parents, employers,
and programmatic accreditation. Transform the review
alumni, The Board of Trustees and law makers expect and deserve
process from a focus on compliance into a meaningful
effectiveness at every level of the institution. Academic Effect™
analysis and documentation of performance. Inform
enables external stakeholders to participate in meaningful ways
continuous improvement initiatives with actionable
to promote peak performance throughout the institution.
recommendations.
100% CLOUD BASED
DATA SECURITY
REDUNDANT BACK-UP
Access Academic Effect™ from any
Web-enabled device.
Advanced data encryption
and secure storage keep information safe.
Automatic redundancy
and unlimited data storage
prevents data loss.
DATA INTEGRITY
INTUITIVE INTERFACE
INTEGRATIONS
Advanced version control, user tracking
and time stamps ensure data integrity.
Simple, elegant and sophisticated user
experience and intuitive user interface
encourage adoption.
Integrate with external
applications using advanced
developer tools.
PROGRAMMING
USER MANAGEMENT
MONITORING
Modern programming ensures a
seamless experience across all
modern browsers.
Invite and manage unlimited users who each
have a unique profile and user
sign-on credentials.
Academic Effect™ is a cloud-based
application and is monitored
24-7 by a team of engineers.
DATA LIBRARIES
NAVIGATOR
LIVE SUPPORT
Access data libraries to enable
best practices.
Inline click-by-click demonstrations
and helpful instructions.
Access live support via online
chat and telephone.
Enabling users with inline training and how-to instructions.
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by Academic Effect
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Navigator™ by Academic Effect™ is a powerful tool designed to guide
users through the entire process. Navigator™ provides a series of
interactive tip-balloons overlaid on the screen; these balloons help
users act, react and progress through the steps. Navigator™ provides
how-to-videos, best practices and sample content to help inspire and
engage your users.
The Navigator Widget
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The Navigator™ widget appears on the right side of every screen
and contains a list of tools and resources to assist users in the
process. Users can review sample content, take a click-by-click tour,
watch how-to videos and access the latest research by leading
experts. Navigator™ can be customized to your institutional process
and may include custom content.
CLICK-BY-CLICK
HOW-TO VIDEO
EXAMPLES
Navigator™ guides users through the
entire process with click-by-click tours.
Each application features how-to
videos to help inform and inspire users.
Navigator™ provides example templates and
case studies to help inspire users and
provide guidance towards best practices.
Academic Effect™ Live Help
Academic Effect™ provides instant access to a professional support team.
Users may access our team of assessment and institutional effectiveness professionals on live chat or by phone.
relentless support
Built for Any Device
Academic Effect™ allows you to access and do your work from any Web-enabled device.
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