Faculty

Welcome to the CCNY Navigate Community! The document and video below are informative introductions to CCNY Navigate:

• Introduction to CCNY Navigate Video (.MP4)
• Introduction to CCNY Navigate Document (.PDF)

Features & Tools for Faculty

• View and utilize academic performance and progression information for students in your courses.
• Create appointment summary reports memorializing meetings with students.
• Message students in your classes using in-platform rosters.
• Issue notifications to refer students to campus resources (i.e. Tutoring, The Writing Center, Advising, etc.)
• Complete progress reports for students in classes (when requested via email.)
• Set availability for office hours and/or consultation appointments.

Access: 

Faculty and staff users must use their CUNYFirst credentials to access either of the sites through the links below:

• Production Site: https://ccny-cuny.campus.eab.com
• Training Site: https://ccny-cuny.campus-training3.eab.com

Faculty and staff users must use their CUNYFirst credentials to access either of the sites through the links below:

• Production Site: https://ccny-cuny.campus.eab.com
• Training Site: https://ccny-cuny.campus-training3.eab.com

Appointment Campaigns

Appointment Campaigns let staff reach out to specific student populations and encourage them to schedule appointments through a direct link.

• Creating Appointment Campaigns for Faculty

Communication with Students through Navigate

Instructors have the ability to send an email and text messages to students individually or in groups through CCNY Navigate.

It is important to keep in mind that all correspondence sent through the platform becomes a part of the student's educational record and is therefore covered by the Family Educational Rights And Privacy Act (FERPA)

• How to message students
• CCNY Navigate Texting Policy

"Home" Pages

All faculty members will have two "home" pages: The "Professor Home" gives instructors access to their classes and records for their students. The "Staff Home" allows instructors to give their students the ability to schedule appointments through the CCNY Navigate platform.

• Professor Home Page Intro
• Staff Home Page Intro

Notes

"Notes" are a quick method to attach information to a student's record.  You can decide whether to allow the student to see the note or not.

It is important to keep in mind that all notes posted to a student's profile in Navigate, becomes a part of the student's educational record and are therefore covered by the Family Educational Rights And Privacy Act (FERPA)

• Adding a Note

Notifications

Notifications are the method by which instructors can provide valuable feedback to students about their performance while providing information about valuable campus resources.  There is also the ability to send kudos to students who are doing well!

• How to Issue and View Notifications
• Notifications Available to Faculty

Progress Reports

Progress Reports let faculty alert the CCNY advising community and administration about a student who may need assistance or the potential at-risk student who may be about to leave the College. Advisors and academic support staff will then process the Progress Reports and get the student the help they need.

Progress Report Campaigns

Progress Report Campaigns are a method for the College to gather information on students' academic progress early in the semester. Faculty will receive an email asking that they provide feedback for students in their class. Rarely will this be for all students in a particular section. Faculty will use the same Notification from the previous section to provide this feedback

• How to Respond to a Progress Report Campaign

Ad-Hoc Progress Reports

The most common way for faculty to submit Progress Reports is through a Progress Report Campaign. However, CCNY faculty members can submit an ad-hoc progress report at any time, even without prompting through a progress report campaign. Since Progress Report Campaigns focus on cohorts of students and rarely include all students in any section, this method can be used to provide information about students who may be struggling but were not included in the Progress Report Campaign.

• Creating Ad-Hoc Progress Reports

Student Appointments

Setting up student appointments is done by creating "availabilities" through the "Staff Home". If you choose to do use the appointment feature, it is recommended that you sync the calendar in the CCNY Navigate platform with your Outlook or Google calendar. 

Note - we primarily have users sync their Outlook calendars as that is what most users currently use for work. When syncing your Outlook calendar, please input your ccny credentials (ex. jdoe@ccny.cuny.edu ), not your CUNYfirst credentials (ex. rdoe@login.cuny.edu ).

• Syncing your Navigate Calendar with Outlook (MS 365)
• Syncing CCNY Navigate with your Google Calendar.
• Setting Up Availabilities

Student Profiles:

The student profile allows instructors to access a great deal of academic information about students in their classes in a very convenient format.

• Student Profile for Faculty

Taking Attendance

Navigate includes an attendance tracking feature that some programs have opted to use.

Faculty assigned to these programs can log attendance directly into Navigate, which supports marking students as Present, Absent, Tardy, and Excused. The system provides instructors with attendance pattern tracking and detailed views of attendance history for the students enrolled in their own courses. 

Note: This feature is intended for use by instructors whose programs have requested it. It does not replace other official systems such as Brightspace, Blackboard, or CUNYFirst.

• Taking Attendance

To-Do's

To-Dos are created by staff members to prompt future action regarding a particular student. This can be useful to track next steps for the staff member, to follow up on pertinent information shared during an appointment, or to reconnect with a student at a more appropriate time. 

• To-Dos For Faculty