Features

The chart below lists all of the features of Campus ToolKit and shows you how the book, How to Graduate from College the Easy Way … and Other Popular Fairy Tales ties in with the system. Click on the camera icon () to view a screenshot of the feature. For the Knowledge Modules, you can click on the PDF icon () to read sample pages. You can also view the features matrix for another visual representation of how all of the facets of Campus ToolKit work together.

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  • Assessments
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• • Locus of Control for University Students

    The LOCUS assesses, in a very broad manner, students' beliefs about their ability to control their own destiny. The Locus of Control concept suggests there are two kinds of people - those who believe that they are in control of the events in their lives (Internals) and those who believe that their lives are controlled by circumstances outside of their control (Externals). In the college environment, students who have a high Internal locus of controls think that the grades they receive are a result of how much they studied, while students who have a strong External locus of control might think that their grades are a result of how hard the test was or how much the professor liked them. A student's outlook on how much control they have over his or her college experience impacts motivation and willingness to push through the tough times.
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  • Stress Barometer

    This assessment evaluates student stress and then automatically provides resources to address each identified stressor. The Interactive version also shares this information with a student's mentor.

  
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  • PLSI (Personality)

    The Paragon Learning Style Inventory provides a measure of student cognitive and perceptual preferences. There are 16 learning type combinations (e.g. - ESFJ, INFP, INTP, etc.) and students receive an overview report, a detailed report and access to our Knowledge Module on Personality Types.

  
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  • LASSI (Study Skills)

    The LASSI is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of student awareness about and use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning. The focus is on thoughts, behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that relate to successful learning. Upon completion of the assessment, students receive an individualized action plan and access to learning materials to improve their weak areas.

  
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  • Financial Awareness

    This assessment evaluates student understanding of basic finances. Once the pre-test identifies areas of weakness, students go through the Financial Awareness Knowledge Module. They then take a post-test to measure improvement.

  
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  • DISC (Communication)

    The DISC Temperament Assessment categorizes individual behavioral characteristics. The characteristics are broken down into four categories: D - Driving, I-Influencing, S-Stabilizing and C-Conscientious. Knowing our temperament categories allows us to better understand ourselves and the ways we interact with others of differing temperaments. From a school's perspective, knowing student temperaments is useful in classroom settings, advising, admissions and recruiting, marketing, coaching, mentoring and a myriad of other areas. Teaching your staff the DISC will help them to respond to the needs of your students in a far more effective manner.

  
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  • Career Interest Profiler

    This U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration instrument is a self-assessment career exploration tool that can help students discover the type of work activities and occupations that they would like and find exciting. The process will help them to identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to them. The assessment is composed of 180 items describing work activities that represent a wide variety of occupations as well as a broad range of training levels.
    At the end of the assessment, students will receive an accurate, reliable profile of their vocational interests that:

    1. Provides valuable self-knowledge about your vocational interests
    2. Fosters career awareness, and
    3. Provides a window to the entire world of work via the 900+ occupations within the database.
  
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  • Work Importance Profiler

    This U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration career exploration tool helps students to focus on what is important to them in a job. It then identifies occupations that they may find satisfying, based on the similarity between their work values (such as achievement, autonomy, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations.

  
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  • Sensory Learning Styles

    The Sensory Learning Style Assessment helps students find out what their primary and secondary learning style preferences are (Visual, Auditory, Tactile or Kinesthetic). It will also give them some customized study techniques that will help them get the most out of their classes with the least amount of academic stress.

  
• • Navigator

    The Navigator assessment identifies a student's particular areas of need and then rank orders the Campus ToolKit resources that will meet these needs. That gives students a personal map that they can use to progress through the system. Alternatively, the school may program a default list that can serve as a class syllabus.

  

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  • Career Search

    This tool allows students to search the database of over 900 careers. The results include information from the O*NET 10.0 database from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition.

  
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  • DISC Speed Reader

    This tool helps students identify the DISC profile of other people they know. Knowing their DISC score allows for better communication.

  
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  • Personal Mission Statement

    Students use this interactive template to create their own personal mission statement.

  
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  • Savings Calculator

    Use the savings calculator to see the power of interest compounding over time.

  
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  • Budget Creation Wizard

    Use this interactive template to create a personal budget.

  
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  • Resource Finder

    Campus ToolKit has a database of thousands of resources for students. The Resource Finder will help to locate the ones that are best in any particular situation.

  
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  • Daily Time Tracker

    This online calculator helps students understand how they are currently spending a typical day. It is a companion tool to the Time Management text.

  
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  • Weekly Time Tracker

    This more detailed online calculator helps students understand how they are currently spending their week. It is a companion tool to the Time Management text.

  
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  • Study Time Estimator

    Campus ToolKit has a database of thousands of resources for students. The Resource Finder will help to locate the ones that are best in any particular situation.

  
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  • Exercises

    All of the exercises in the textbook, How to Graduate from College the Easy Way ... and Other Popular Fairy Tales, are in printable format online.

  

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  • Knowledge Modules
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• • System Orientation

    This Flash video introduces students to the Campus ToolKit system.

  
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  • Sensory Learning Styles

    This Knowledge Module teaches students about Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic learning styles.

  
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  • Communication (DISC)

    This Knowledge Module focuses on teaching students more about DISC temperament types and how type can be used to increase the effectiveness of their communications with others.

  
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  • Critical Thinking

    The critical thinking module teaches students the basics of learning to think critically. It then examines their temperament assessments, such as the DISC, PLSI and Locus of Control for University Students, to help them identify the specific challenges and opportunities that their natural temperament profile presents in learning to think critically. Includes reflective writing exercises.

  

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  • System Tools
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• • To Do List

    A simple way to prioritize and track things that need to be done.

  
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  • Journal

    This is simply an online journaling area for students to record their thoughts. In the interactive version, this feature is shared with the students' mentors.

  
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  • Goals

    This tool helps students identify their goals and create step-by-step, dated action plans to reach those goals.

  
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  • Messages

    Students can send and receive messages to their mentors and coaches using this feature. The messages are delivered within the Campus ToolKit system and students have the option to have new mail notifications forwarded to their outside email accounts.

  

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  • Coach Screens
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  • Group Administration

    School personnel can create and manage groups of users in Campus ToolKit.

  
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  • Reports

    One of the nice things about having your students work online is that all the information is available to you at your fingertips. Our reports include assessment reports to show you all of your student's results. You can also see usage reports to monitor who's logging in. In addition to these basic reports the system also includes reports such as the At-Risk Student report, Student Comments, Student Service Requests, Average Contentment Levels, Weekly Summary and the Watch List report. There are also several reports available via email.

  
• • Online Training

    We provide free training for mentors and coaches. There are several options for this training, but the most popular is to take advantage of the many Flash tutorials and online training screens included in the system.
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  • List Students

    The List Student screen shows all student users, their most recent stress level, their most recent login date, their mentor, email address, major, section and userID. These screens can be sorted in a variety of ways and can be exported to Excel.

  
• • Student View Options

    The Interactive edition allows mentors multiple options for viewing student information. Schools also have options for restricting access to particular information.

  
• • Export Capabilities

    Most reports in Campus ToolKit may be exported to Excel or Word.

  
• • Watch List

    The feature allows you to track and monitor at-risk students.
• • Privatization Options

    Schools decide who has access to student information. Some schools choose a team mentoring approach, others decide to make the mentoring relationship completely private.

  
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  • Coach Dashboard

    All critical data is displayed on this one convenient page. One glance tells you what you need to know.

  

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  • Communication
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  • 2-Way Messaging

    Students and mentors can send messages back and forth on the website. If users choose, they may have these messages forwarded to their outside email accounts.

  
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  • Interactive Journaling

    Mentors can post questions for students to respond to in their journals. Mentors are notified of new responses on their dashboards.

  
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  • Service Requests

    Students can request assistance through Campus ToolKit

  
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  • Comments

    Students are encouraged to tell Mentors what is going on in their lives.

  
• • Suggestion Box

    We actively solicit ideas to benefit the school from students.

  
• • Site Feedback

    Most of our development is done in response to user feedback.
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  • Profiles

    Students create profiles as part of the account activation process. This is useful to their mentors and students may also choose to display their profiles on the community page to their classmates if they want to.

  
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  • Document Posting

    Upload important documents for your students to access.

  
• • Interactive Home Pages

    Students can see notifications of new information and messages and they can also initiate dialogue with their mentors from the home page.