Presentation Title: “Ellucian Smart Plan and Award”

Ellucian Smart Plan and Award
Summary

The path to on-time completion and post-academic success requires harmony amongst audit, planning, and credential discovery processes. Welcome to Ellucian Smart Plan and Ellucian Award.

Together, these solutions drive student achievement, streamline academic planning and advising.

Description

You can think of Smart Plan as the Google Maps for academic planning. Google Maps knows your location, your destination, and your navigation settings. It uses these inputs to generate your optimal route and calibrate for any traffic changes. Smart Plan does the same thing. Your location is academic history, your destination is completion, and your optimal route factors program requirements, requisites, schedules, etc.

Award analyzes each student's completed courses and compares them to all available degree/credential requirements, declared or not. The data empowers institutions to identify and propel near completers and stop-outs, offering targeted support and resources to help them successfully reach their academic goals. This proactive approach enhances student motivation and retention—as well as institutional performance-based funding, where applicable.

Approval Status:
Approved
Date Submitted:
August 29, 2025
Category:
Higher Education Technology and Innovation
Audience:
  • Information Technology Staff
  • Supervisors, Managers, Directors
  • Purchasing or Business Office Staff
  • Higher Education Faculty
Topics/Keywords:
  • Student Achievement, Academic Planning, Credentials, Degree Requirements

Presenter Information


Presenter(s):
Peter Fletcher
Account Executive
Ellucian
First Name
  • Patrick
Last Name
  • Spy
Job Title
  • Account Executive
Organization
  • Ellucian
About the Presenter(s):

My team and I are excited for the opportunity to share how Ellucian Smart Plan is enhancing the "What if" scenarios with smart, automated, and optimized degree plans. Students often face changes that require them to rethink their current degree pathways, such as financial difficulties or wanting to pursue new knowledge and interests. Students may change their current degree pathway, but Award is here to ensure every student is awarded the credential they earn.

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