What is Wings Up?
Wings Up for Student Success is a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
platform for Advising, Retention, and Student Success that unifies FGCU’s various
systems into a single, centralized platform.
As a system designed exclusively for higher education, Wings Up is an all-in-one solution
to identify at-risk students while serving as a student support, outreach, and intervention
tool from matriculation to graduation.
Implementation Management Team
The Wings Up implementation team includes members from the following areas and is
actively working with campus stakeholders to understand and accommodate end users’
needs.
Project Team
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Functional Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
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- Retention & Graduation Services
- Information Technology Services/Project
Management Office
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- Academic Support Services
- Orientation & First Year Experience
- Records, Curriculum & Advising
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Wings Up for Student Success

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Implementation Plan
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Phase 1: Case Management & Course-Based Early Alerts and Nudges - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- No workflow and transparency
- Ex: Faculty cannot see status of submitted alert
- Doesn’t automatically input student data
- No reporting capabilities
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- Automation
- Submission of Nudges & Alerts
- Simplified Student-Focused form
- Tracking/Workflow with transparency
- Automated case updates to Faculty
- Faculty & Case Managers back-end view
- Personal/Non-academic cases
- Ability to escalate cases
- Foundational student data
- Reporting & Student performance trends
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Phase 2: Pre-Orientation Process for FTICs (Exploratory Advising) - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- Manual work for advising directors and advising
team - reviewing student records, sending communications - very time-intensive process
- Tracking students through the pre-Orientation
process using static spreadsheets
- Difficult to easily know if a student made
changes to their Orientation registration or program of study
- No workflow and transparency
- Doesn’t automatically input student data based
on student responses or actions
- Students complete the Incoming Student Form
in another system (Qualtrics), which requires manual review of the submission by the advisor
- No reporting capabilities
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- Automation of reviewing the student
record and system-generated email communications
- System tracks students through the pre-
Orientation process and automatically notifies them of the tasks that they need to complete
- Established communications that are
triggered to send automatically based on actions that the student needs to take
- Personalized communication using
merge fields and attractive graphics
- Reporting capabilities and real-time
views of where students are in the pre- Orientation process
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Phase 3: SMS Texting Functionality - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- Housed in another system that is separate from
student record
- No record of communication over time,
resulting in a manual process for tracking data in spreadsheets
- Limitations to the number of simultaneous text
campaigns that one area can do at a time
- Certain functional users are not widely using
texting functionality to communicate with students
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- Automation
- Templates and editable snippets using
merged fields
- Can embed links and videos
- Can set up a communication cadence
within the system that utilizes both text and email features
- Response tracking and population
selection functionality
- AI message generation capability
- Delayed delivery options available
- Ability to launch multiple campaigns
simultaneously from one phone number
- Ability to restrict security/access to SMS
inboxes based on roles and departments
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Phase 4: Case Management Buildout - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- Relevant student data currently lives in multiple
locations and is not easily connected
- With the initial rollout of early alerts in the Wings
Up system, faculty have to submit early alerts through the system individually and must look up each student's information in order to submit the alert
- Initial email templates can be confusing for
students and faculty and look like spam
- Limited options were given for resources, case
closure reasons, and information shared with faculty over email
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- Ability to see a holistic picture of a
student, pulling together data from multiple sources
- Faculty can access their course rosters
for the CRNs they are assigned to
- Email templates are branded with FGCU
logos and look more professional
- Additional resources, case closure
reasons, and email information were included to provide more detailed information to recipients, based on feedback from users
- Ability to get feedback from students and
faculty about their experience with the early alert system, which is used to enhance the platform
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Phase 5: Customized User Interfaces for Advisors and Faculty - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- Relevant student data currently lives in multiple
locations and is not easily connected
- Inability to report and easy act on notes based
on how they are currently stored (text fields, etc.)
- Excessive manual work required - narrative notes,
manual crafting of post-appointment emails, storing notes in multiple locations
- Multiple clicks for faculty to access early alerts
form
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- Ability to see a holistic picture of a
student, pulling together data from multiple sources
- Shared notes between student success
areas
- Notes form that gathers data that can
be easily reported on, and automated into emails to elevate the student experience
- Faculty can access the Wings Up for
Student Success user interface in one click from the Canvas global navigation bar
- Faculty can add notes to student's
Wings Up record that are accessible to student success staff and other faculty
- Faculty can easily submit Nudges and
Early Alerts from their My Classes list, which also provides them with enhanced information about the students enrolled in their courses, in one easy to use location
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Phase 6: Student 360 - COMPLETED!
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Current Pain Points
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Future State (the “Wins”)
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- Relevant student data currently lives in multiple
locations and is not easily connected
- Faculty and student services staff do not have
easy access to student information that can help them foster student success
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- Ability to see a holistic picture of a
student, pulling together data from multiple sources
- Shared access to data, notes on student
records in Wings Up, and pulling together data on students into one seamless place to get a full 360-degree view of the student
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If you have questions about Wings Up for Student Success, upcoming training, or the project in general, email wingsup@fgcu.edu