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Improving the major change process across the university of maryland

Opportunity

To improve the centralization, communication, and efficiency of the current major change process for students and staff

Kevin Hall

Jacob De Frees

Racheal Ssentongo

Diya Biswas

Ilana Sheykhet

Quinntuplets

Special thanks to:

Project Champions: Chad Nazworth and Apitchaya Reed

Instructors: Dr. Pam Armstrong, Priscilla Lee, Logan Rist, and Quinn Wandalowski

Current process Insights

Transparency

deCentralization

Unknown status of where students are in the major change process

of students are ill-Informed about the necessary steps and forms

The current information available is scattered

across college websites

information

53%

Implementation

  1. Design an Online Portal
  2. Update Automation Systems
  3. Create Tutorial Videos
  4. Conduct Staff Training

New Process Flow Diagram

Student Pain points

Provides a detailed preview of the process along with necessary requirements

Recommendations

Additional feature to track the student’s progress

Online

Portal

Detailed preview of the process along with require-

ments

Timeline

tracking

Centralizing information for all major change processes on one platform

Tutorial videos

Approach

Survey

students to identify pain points

Interview

advisors and administrators

Analyze

data to determine areas of waste

Impacts

Understanding Requirements

Accessing Information

Ineffective Advising

Time

Accessibility

Resources

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Improving the major change process across the university of maryland

Kevin Hall

Jacob De Frees

Racheal Ssentongo

Diya Biswas

Ilana Sheykhet

Quinntuplets

Special thanks to:

Project Champions: Chad Nazworth and Apitchaya Reed

Instructors: Dr. Pam Armstrong, Priscilla Lee, Logan Rist, and Quinn Wandalowski