Navigate Resources for Staff

What can I do in Navigate?

  • Access student records and profiles for advising and support.
  • Schedule appointments with students.
  • Send email and SMS messages and reminders to students to facilitate communication.
  • Identify and address students at risk of academic challenges.
  • Utilize data analytics tools to make data-driven decisions.
  • Help students find and access campus resources, such as tutoring services and student success coaching.
  • Assist students in setting and tracking their academic and career goals.
  • Streamline administrative tasks and improve efficiency.
  • Collaborate with faculty, advisors, and other staff to foster student success initiatives.
  • Generate reports on student progress, engagement, and success outcomes for assessment and improvement efforts.

What are the benefits to using Navigate?

  • Improved Student Support: Navigate helps staff members provide better support to students by offering a comprehensive view of each student’s engagement and interactions, allowing for more personalized guidance and intervention when needed.
  • Enhanced Communication: Navigate offers communication tools that make it easier for staff to reach out to students, send reminders, and facilitate one-on-one interactions, ultimately improving the student-staff relationship.
  • Streamlined Appointment Scheduling: The platform simplifies the process of scheduling advising and counseling appointments, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring that students can easily access the help they need.
  • Data Analytics: Navigate offers data analytics tools that help staff make data-driven decisions, providing insights into student trends, retention rates, and other important metrics.
  • Resource Tracking: Staff can use Navigate to help students find and access campus resources such as tutoring services, University Life resources, identity resources, academic advising, and student success coaching.
  • Increased Efficiency: By automating administrative tasks and providing an integrated platform for various student support functions, Navigate can help staff members save time and work more efficiently.
  • Student Success Initiatives: Navigate can support university-wide student success initiatives such as the Patriot Success Survey by providing a unified platform for faculty, advisors, and staff to collaborate in fostering student success.
  • Enhanced Reporting: Navigate offers robust reporting capabilities, enabling staff to generate reports on student progress, engagement, and success outcomes for assessment and continuous improvement efforts.

Are there any helpful resources available to help me use Navigate?

Watch this training video for a basic introduction to Navigate!
(more detail within Blackboard Classroom listed below)

Navigate Blackboard Training Site

There are many more resources available to assist you in understanding the various features in Navigate. Please follow the below steps to add yourself to the Navigate Training Blackboard site:

  1. Go to the Mason Blackboard site (http://mymason.gmu.edu)
  2. Login using your Mason NetID and Password
  3. At the bottom of the page, right side, under “Mason Links” section, select Blackboard Organizations Search (and self-enroll)
  4. Enter “Navigate Mason” in the Organization Search box, and click Go
  5. Select the triangle shaped button next to the title of the organization in the search results, then click Enroll
  6. Enter the code: Committed2$ucce$$

Request a Navigate User Account

  • To gain access to Navigate as staff member, you must have completed a Banner Request Form for Advisor Self-Service. Please note, it can take 2-3 weeks for this form to be processed.
  • To request access for your undergraduate or graduate student staff, please contact sschelp@gmu.edu.
Need help or have questions? Email the Navigate team at sschelp@gmu.edu