Table of Contents
Overview
Permissions
Understanding the Student Mapping Tab
Student Mapping Filters
Bulk Assign Inferred Program Maps
Impact on Insights
Deciding to Associate an Actual Map or an Inferred Program Map
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Overview
PATH: Course Demand Projections > Settings > Student Mapping
The student mapping feature enables institutions to configure which program maps should be associated with which students. This allows institutions to create more granular associations for specific academic paths/specializations within a program.
There is a unique student mapping for each program, major, and concentration code combination.
The unique combinations are based on how your institution defines this data within programs.
Configuring student mapping settings is required in order to visualize the “Requirements”, “Students Overview”, and “Time Conflicts” insights on a course. These associations will be used to determine which program map should be referenced when identifying relevant requirements and highlighting where a student is at in their program progression.
You should modify the student mapping settings by assigning a map that most closely aligns with the path you want those students to follow.
When assigning a program map, you can assign the associated inferred map, if generated, or any actual program map that is associated with the current effective dated version of the parent program in Curriculum.
Permissions
To access and configure this tab, the “Edit Student Mapping” permission must be set to “Allow”.
Understanding the Student Mapping Tab
PATH: Course Demand Projections > Settings > Student Mapping
The student mapping tab is broken into the following columns:
# of students: The number of students in Coursedog that have the associated combination of program, major, and concentration codes
Program: Program code
Major: Major code
Concentration: Concentration code
Program Map: Drop-down that allows you to assign a map to the associated student group
Please note that depending on how your institution associates program, majors, and concentration codes with your students, not all columns may be present. For example, if your institution concatenates major and concentration codes for students that pursue a specialization within a program, then the concentration column might be empty.
Student Mapping Filters
Overview
You can filter the student mapping assignments by program map association status.
How to Do It
Click “More Filters”.
Toggle “Actual Program Map Status” to “Assigned” or “Unassigned” to return student mapping assignments that have been completed or need to be completed. You can also filter by “IPM Assigned” and “APM Assigned” to return mapping assignments with an associated inferred program map or actual program map.
Toggle “Show combinations with 0 students” to the right to surface program, major, and concentration code combinations that were present in the student audit but not associated with any students.
By default these are hidden as they have no impact on insights.
It can be helpful to review any combinations that are present but not associated with students to determine if any data clean up in your SIS may be necessary.
Bulk Assign Inferred Program Maps
Clicking the “Assign Inferred Program Maps” button will automatically assign an inferred program map to all program, major, and concentration combinations.
Inferred maps must be generated to populate the student mapping tab with data.
Impact on Insights
Associated program maps are referenced across various insights within a Course view. Click here to learn more about these insights and others that are available when you drill into a course.
Requirements
The student mapping configuration dictates which program map will be referenced within “Requirements”.
All associated maps will be scanned to identify if the given course is included within a requirement.
Student Overview
Courses applied data for a student is compared against the requirements found in the associated map for their program.
This results in an overview of which students have met certain requirements and which students are missing certain requirements.
Time Conflicts
The time conflicts heatmap references the associated map to determine which classes are “must takes” in the same term.
These “must takes” default populate the heatmap to help end users create a distributed schedule.
Deciding to Associate an Actual Map or an Inferred Program Map
The decision around which map to associate within a student mapping depends on the overall accuracy of the map. Ideally, you should associate the map that most accurately reflects program progression as it relates to what students are guided to do and what students actually do.
If program maps are up to date and referenced in the catalog and advisor meetings, it is recommended that these are used.
If they are stale or inaccurate, it is recommended that edited inferred program maps are used.
If the answer differs program to program, it is recommended that you use a combination.
Once you make a student mapping you can always adjust it in the future.