Technologies We Oversee

BoilerConnect

BoilerConnect is a student success system that links staff, faculty, and students in a coordinated support network. It allows users to identify students in need of assistance, and provide targeted outreach, support, and referrals, helping them navigate Purdue from enrollment through graduation.

BoilerConnect Student

BoilerConnect Student is a unified mobile and desktop platform designed to help students stay on track and succeed. It acts as a central hub where students can schedule advising appointments, receive early alerts from faculty, and easily access campus resources. By consolidating these key functions, the platform empowers students to proactively manage their journey to graduation while giving advisors and faculty the tools to provide timely support.

Forage

Forage is a free online platform, promoted by Purdue's Center for Career Opportunities (CCO), that provides Boilermakers with a significant competitive edge by offering virtual work experiences designed by leading global companies. Through these self-paced job simulations, students can explore various career paths and gain practical, real-world skills in fields ranging from engineering to finance and marketing, all without leaving campus. By completing these modules, students not only build confidence and discover potential professions but also earn valuable certificates to enhance their resumes and LinkedIn profiles, effectively bridging the gap between academic theory and professional application and better preparing them for internships and full-time roles.

Motivation Code (MCode)

Motivation Code (MCode) is a story-based assessment available to Purdue students that helps individuals better understand what motivates and energizes them. Through personal reflection and guided questions, students receive a personalized motivation profile that provides insight into how they approach goals, decisions, and challenges. MCode supports self-awareness and student development by helping students better understand what drives them and what contributes to their success. Results are available within BoilerConnect and provide advisors and student success professionals with additional context to support meaningful, student-centered conversations.

MCode is designed to supplement Strengths, not replace it. While Strengths helps identify natural talents and patterns, MCode offers additional insight into the motivations that influence how students engage, make decisions, and pursue opportunities. Together, they can help create a more complete understanding of the student experience.

Shovel

Offered free to all Purdue students, Shovel is an intelligent study planner designed to help students master their demanding schedule. This smart time-blocking app allows students to import coursework from Brightspace, estimate study time for each task, and see if they realistically have enough time to get everything done. By visualizing all academic and personal commitments in one place, Shovel helps Boilermakers proactively manage their workload, avoid last-minute cramming, and maintain a balanced schedule.

Smart Plan

Co-owned with the Office of the Registrar, Smart Plan (formally called EduNav) is a degree planning platform that provides a guided, personalized, and optimal pathway to degree completion for students – think Google or Apple Maps for degree planning! Students and academic advisors will be able to visualize the full pathway from matriculation to graduation in a detailed and term-by-term view. Thinking about a course or program change? You can see and understand exactly how that change will impact time to degree!

Our Campus Partnerships

Student Success Technologies brings together technology, people, and processes to support student success. When a technology intersects with the work of another campus office, we partner to bring together our areas of expertise and ensure the technology supports both institutional needs and the experience of the students and staff who use it.

Smart Plan

Smart Plan is jointly supported by Student Success Technologies and the Office of the Registrar, with each office bringing a distinct area of expertise.

Student Success Technologies

  • Communication and change management
  • Implementation and system enhancements
  • Training and adoption
  • User experience and feedback

Office of the Registrar

  • Academic requirements
  • Curriculum and catalog information
  • Degree requirements and rules
  • Academic records and related processes
  • Collaboration with colleges and departments on academic information
  • Technology and platform management

Together, SST and the Office of the Registrar help ensure Smart Plan provides students and their support teams with an accurate, useful, and intuitive planning experience.

MCode

Student Success Technologies partners with University Undergraduate Academic Advising (UUAA) to support the implementation and use of MCode across campus.

Student Success Technologies

  • Technology implementation
  • Platform integrations
  • User experience

UUAA

  • Support for incorporating MCode into advising conversations
  • Advising-focused use of MCode

*Training is a coordinated effort between SST and UUAA

Together, SST and UUAA support staff in using MCode as a resource to help students better understand their motivations and connect them to their academic and personal goals.