Starfish OFFICE HOURS™ - Preview ("alpha") Release

Hello. We've taken a copy of our software that's still under development and put it on the web for you. The basics work, but there is still a lot that you may find rough or incomplete. Technically, it's an "alpha" quality system. Over the next month or two you'll see it grow to a stable, full-featured solution. See below for what works today,

What's in the Preview Release?

Student Experience:

Student dashboard – upcoming appointments, class list, my success network, recent changes, etc.
Student scheduling of appointments

Success Provider (e.g. instructor, advisor) Experience:

Success provider dashboard -- upcoming appointments, recent changes, my at-risk students, moderating student endorsements
Day View of appointments
Creating office hour blocks
Manually adding appointments
My students and student profiles
Magic web tables –change column width, add and remove columns

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What's Coming?

Administrative Experience:

Blackboard, WebCT, Angel, and Sakai integration
Reporting on student-success provider collaboration
System, campus, college, and department defaults and overrides
Branding and enhanced look & feel
Administrator Wizard

Convenient Scheduling:

First-come, first-served office hours
Email notification, reminders, and alerts
Week, month, year, and agenda views and side-by-side calendars e.g. instructor and TA
Automatic push to your personal calendar / ICS file support
Department scheduler support
Instructor Wizard

Quality Time:

My success network management — everyone you ever get help from
Student endorsements creation and moderation
Invitations
At-risk flag management
Profile creation for instructors and students − bringing context to interactions