Create Goals
Important
Information and features vary according to the roles to which you belong and the permissions associated with those roles. For more information, contact your module manager or your campus support team.
Use this page to create a goal for a student. Goals can be categorized according to your school's goal types (set up by your Advising Module Manager) such as academic goals for "Maintain a 4.0 GPA" or post-graduate goals for "Take the MCAT" or "Work with Career Development Office." You can add descriptive information to help the student reach their goal and assign the goal a completion date to help keep the student focused on meeting a specific deadline.
Tip
Goal progress information can be helpful in identifying goals that aren't yet underway, but have a pending deadline. You can follow up with a student to identify and address issues that might be keeping them from meeting their goals. This helps ensure student success and fosters student retention.
Goals can help keep students on track for meeting key deadlines, but it is important to keep goals manageable and within reasonable time frames. Work closely with your students to outline the goals that have the highest priority to them and compare it to their course load to prevent overloading them.
Use the link feature in the Description field to provide information that will help the student meet the goal. For example, if the student is planning to meet with your campus career development center, you can link to their contact information.
On a student's Advisee Spotlight page, view the Goals block.
Click Create goal. The Create goals form page appears.
From the Type drop-down list, select the type of goal the student is working to accomplish.
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Goal types are managed by your module manager. If you do not see a particular category, contact them for more information.
In the Name field, enter the student's goal.
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Use a name that can be easily identified by the student and other advisors or faculty members who may have permission to view the student's goals.
In the Description field, enter information about the goal.
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Text formatting options are available to list or highlight goal information. Use the Link option to access another website with additional information. For example, link to Harvard's application requirements if the student sets a goal to apply to Harvard.
From the Status drop-down list, select:
Not started if the student hasn't commenced with pursuing the goal
In progress if the student has started pursuing the goal
Complete if the student has met the goal
If you want to assign a deadline when the goal needs to be completed by in order to track progress, click in the Deadline field and from the calendar pop-up select the date the goal should be completed by.
To create just this one goal, click Create goal. To create another goal for the student, click Save & create another. The goal is created for the student and the goal progress bar is updated.
Only active goal types are available. If there is a type you are not seeing, contact your module manager or system administrator to see if it is active.
There is no limit to the number of goals that can be created; however, keep in mind how reasonable it will be for the student to meet all their goals.