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In addition to Courses and Community Groups, ANGEL also supports academic advising in ANGEL's PC Connects.
What is PC Connects?
PC Connects effectively integrates the Providence College institutional information system, Banner, with ANGEL Learning’s course management software, ANGEL, to enhance communication among and improve access to academic advising resources for students, faculty and administrators. On a nightly basis, the system automatically transports associated members of the academic community into
- PC Connects: Advising – Individual faculty advising groups
- PC Connects: Departmental – Department or Program groups, and
- PC Connects: ProvidenceCollege – The college wide group.
Each group is managed by a group leader, contains group specific resources, calendars, and email lists, facilitating communication and information sharing. The adaptability and flexibility of the software allow each group to support the specific advising needs of diverse academic populations in our faculty-based advising system.
How do I find PC Connects?
PC Connects is a part of the ANGEL system.When you log onto ANGEL at http://angel.providence.edu, your home page will display Courses, Community Groups and PC Connects. You belong to at least three PC Connects groups.
Why am I a member of three different PC Connects groups? How are they different?
PC Connects: ProvidenceCollege (UG)
- Includes all faculty and students in Undergraduate Studies.
- Maintains the full academic Calendar in the ProvidenceCollege/place /> group.
- Provides the academic community with easy access to commonly used academic forms, policies and procedures, and advising information in the group Content.
- Ensures effective Communication about significant academic matters to appropriate members of the academic community.
PC Connects: Academic Programs (Departments & Program)
- Provides access to accurate departmental or program advising associations.
- Allows department or program specific advising resources, events, announcements to be posted to group Content, with access limited to group or subgroup members
- Allows Department or program specific events to be posted on the Calendar which is accessible by all or designated members of department/program (e.g. seminars, meetings) or faculty advising groups (e.g. office hours, registration appointments).
- Provides groups managers (department chairs/program directors) with a “Management Console” for easy access to member information, e.g. alphabetical roster of all members, a student roster including their class year, major, minor and email address, and an advisor load report including advisor/advisee assignments. For instructions, click here: Chairs PC Connects Advisor Load Report Memo.pdf
PC Connects: Advising Group
- Identifies and provides students with contact information for their faculty advisor.
- Provides faculty with an accurate and current listing of their advisees including Banner I.D., major, minor, class year, email address.
- Provides a means of posting content or calendar items and of maintaining confidential advising notes with access restricted to individual advisors (the author of the notes)
- For advising tools, click here: PDF Handout
How does PC Connects benefit its members, students, faculty advisors, department chairs, academic administrators?
PC Connects has three different sub-groups.Each is automatically populated to reflect changes in students’ academic status (e.g. major, minor) so that students are properly assigned to their departmental and individual advising groups. This organization facilitates communication among advisors and students, individually, as a departmental or program whole, or by subgroup, “team” (e.g. class year, advising group)
Who manages PC Connects as a whole?
The Banner/ANGEL Integration is coordinated by members of the Academic Administration and Information Technology to automatically integrate advising information available in the institutional administrative system (Banner) with the group and communication features of our course management software (ANGEL). This project was initiated in the fall of 2005 following the successful integration of course- specific information between the two systems (in 2004). Presently, PC Connects is automatically updated nightly based on official Banner data. Not only are data transported, but advising associations are maintained: between advisor/advisee, faculty/student/department, and all members of the undergraduate academic community.
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 | Chairs PC Connects Advisor Load Report Memo.pdf No description | 81.56 kB | 04:26, 30 May 2008 | ccrafts | Actions | |
| PC Connects Advising Groups Handout 2007-08.pdf No description | 106.78 kB | 04:26, 30 May 2008 | ccrafts | Actions | |