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Orange Success-Supporting and empowering academic success

Why Orange Success?

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Orange Success is an online tool students can use to connect with professors and advisors regarding degree progress, issues with classes, roadblocks encountered or anything else needed to help students improve academic performance and retention.

Advisors and professors can use Orange Success to initiate contact with students for anything from attendance to academic performance. They can even use it to congratulate students with kudos for doing great work or improved performance.

Students’ Success Network

How can we help screen through Orange Success

There are lots of features available on the Orange Success Network:

  Connect with instructors and advisors

  Find services that can help student success

•  Schedule an appointment with a professor, instructor, academic or financial aid advisor, etc.

•  Receive messages from faculty and advisors

•  “Raise Your Hand” to ask for help—advising, disability accommodations, money management, reporting issues like hazing, etc.

How to Access Orange Success

There are so many ways Orange Success can help, but it’s important to understand how to use it effectively. You can access Orange Success through My Slice or Blackboard on your desktop, laptop, even your phone!

Find Orange Success in MySlice under the Advising menu
Find Orange Success on Blackboard under the Tools menu

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Remember:

There is no Orange Success Mobile App. To access Orange Success, download the Syracuse University Mobile App (Android users can also download the app using this link) and take these four easy steps:

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  1. Click on the Syracuse University mobile app
  2. Click on Academics
  3. Click on Orange Success
  4. Log in with your name and password

See a Raised Flag? Take Action!

Orange Success can be a valuable tool in helping students stay on track academically. It is not meant to police them but to keep them engaged with faculty and advisors at Syracuse University.

Orange Success gives faculty the tools to intervene when concerns emerge in the student’s academic performance.

When students receive a flag on their dashboard, they should respond to it right away. It will help them take action to address an issue before it damages their academic performance.

Some of the issues flags address:

  • Attendance concerns
  • Low class participation
  • Assignments that are missing, late, or unacceptable
  • Low quiz or test scores
  • Danger of failing a class
  • Registered but never attended class
  • Stopped attending class

Remember, the Orange Success system is not meant to be punitive but is intended to promote success. If students need help, they should ask for it! Orange Success is here for them.

How to Ask for Help

Alert!

Mid-Semester Progress Reports (MSPR) will begin on April 1–16 and you will receive alerts about your course performance.

Please be sure to respond to any concerns and seek out the appropriate resources. Ask for help!

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Raise Your Hand  >  Select Type of Flag  >  Click Submit

•  I need an advisor’s help

•  I need help in a course

•  I have a roommate conflict

•  I need help making an Intra-University Transfer (IUT)

•  I need disability accommodations

•  I’m interested in innovation and entrepreneurship

•  I need help managing my money

•  I’m having trouble adjusting to college

•  I need to report “hazing”

To Success!

In fall 2020, 81% of 25,186 total appointments created using Orange Success were initiated by students. This trend continues to grow by double digits, so keep it up! Students can keep in touch with advisors—it can only improve academic progress!

Over 15,000 students received early alerts and kudos from their faculty last fall to address their classroom performance. The more students and faculty initiate communication, the better the academic progress will be. Students should always keep Orange Success in mind when they need help.

 

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