{"id":1224,"date":"2017-04-24T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:35:32","slug":"starfish-tips-and-reminders-s-t-a-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Starfish Tips And Reminders (S.T.A.R.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, you have likely heard that the new Simmons advising system, Starfish, is live for undergraduates and online programs. Starfish is a toolset that allows students, advisors, faculty, and student-facing professional staff to communicate, as well as make referrals, raise flags, and store student records in an organized and confidential manner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/starfish-news-april-2017.png\" alt=\"Starfish screenshot\" width=\"425\" align=\"none\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0Sample student flag in Starfish<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few resources and reminders to help you make the most of Starfish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starfish is currently being used for the following programs: undergraduates, Nursing@Simmons and SocialWork@Simmons students<\/li>\n<li>Starfish can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/starfish.simmons.edu\">starfish.simmons.edu<\/a> and uses your current Simmons username and password<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/simmons.edu\/ipas\/student-help-guides\">The Student Quick Start Guide<\/a> includes an overview of Starfish and its features<\/li>\n<li>Instructors, advisors, and student support staff can access our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/simmons.edu\/ipas\/user-guides\">Faculty &amp; Staff Help Guides<\/a> for assistance with topics such as:\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up office hours<\/li>\n<li>Raising and clearing flags<\/li>\n<li>Making notes and messaging students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/simmons.edu\/ipas\/training-calendar\">Faculty &amp; Staff Training Calendar<\/a> for drop-in sessions where you can stop by and work through any questions you may have<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a reminder, please direct any questions, concerns, or feedback to <a href=\"mailto:starfish@simmons.edu\">starfish@simmons.edu<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, you have likely heard that the new Simmons advising system, Starfish, is live for undergraduates and online programs. Starfish is a toolset that allows students, advisors, faculty, and student-facing professional staff to communicate, as well as make referrals, raise flags, and store student records in an organized and confidential manner. \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[351,355],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-351","tag-355"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}