ANGEL IMPACT Awards 2006 - Exemplary ANGEL Program

Program Title:

Success Tracker: Open System for Seamless Integrations

Award Recipient:

Sessions Online School of Design
New York, New York

Program Contributor:

Robert Timm, COO/Operations & Technology

Program Description:

Sessions Online School of Design is a fully online school delivering one- to three-year programs in graphic design, web design and digital arts. Success Tracker provides students with their complete enrollment history and includes important progress data on their programs and courses. It is part of Sessions' Student Success Program: Sessions Retention and Student Performance Initiative.

The Success Tracker is a seamless part of the Sessions learning environment, accessible from every student's ANGEL homepage and from course page menus. Success Tracker implementation: (1) required the synchronization of ANGEL and official student records and (2) needed to appear to students as a visually coherent part of the learning environment, not as an add-on or plug-in feature.

ANGEL’s openness allowed Sessions to seamlessly integrate Success Tracker functionality in its ANGEL environment.