Introducing Wings Up for Student Success at FGCU
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 - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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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
- Parents and families do not have a vehicle for
communicating with the University that is efficient
- 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
- Non-teaching faculty and staff are not able to
submit early alerts through the original Wings Up system
- 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
- Ability for students, parents and families,
staff and other community members to submit alerts for students who need assistance or connections to resources
- Faculty can access their course rosters
for the CRNs they are assigned to and submit multiple alerts at once for similarly situated students
- 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
- Inclusion of positive campus referrals, in
addition to students who need academic or personal assistance. This can include referring students to internships, research opportunities, study abroad, scholarships, and others, all which serve as retention mechanisms
- 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: Advisor User Interface - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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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
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- Ability to see a holistic picture of a
student, pulling together data from multiple sources
- TBD
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Phase 6: Student360 - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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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
- TBD
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- Ability to see a holistic picture of a
student, pulling together data from multiple sources
- TBD
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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