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Communicating with Learners about Thesis Student Portal – Part 2

Posted on Friday, May 9th, 2025

A photo of four students sitting around a table smiling and using their laptops.

Welcome to our ongoing discussion about how we’re communicating the launch of the new Student Portal with our learners. As part of the transition from GeneSIS to Thesis Student Management, the new Student Portal will replace ACSIS as the primary platform where learners can pay fees, enrol in courses, and access many other important services.

This post continues from where we left off in our Communicating with Learners about Thesis Student Portal – Part 1 blog post. If you haven’t read it yet, we encourage you to check it out.

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Communicating with Learners about Thesis Student Portal – Part 1

Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

A photo of four students sitting, laughing and holding coffee cups.

At Algonquin College, being learner-driven is at the heart of what we do. This is true for the R3 Project, where one of the five project objectives is to improve learner success and satisfaction.

Our Organizational Change Management (OCM) team is gearing up to support learners with the transition to the new Thesis Student Portal. We’re leveraging data-driven strategies recommended by the Human-Centred Design Lab (HCDL), which surveyed over 750 learners across our campuses. We also met with 17 learner-facing employee groups, including Student Support Specialists, the International Education Centre, and Academic Advisors.

Key Guidelines:

  • Consistent messaging
  • Simple language and visual aids

These principles guide all our communication campaigns, eLearning video tutorials, and online resources.
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Ready to continue on your R3 Learning Journey?

Posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025

Change is a learning journey.

If you’ve been following the R3 Project by attending Showcase events, reading blogs or connecting with your department’s Change Champion, you’ve likely learned quite a bit about the project.

Check your understanding with this H5P map game. Here’s how to play: click a blue circle to open a unique game. The game is an interactive map with brief waypoints in Admissions, Course Enrolment, Portal Pathfinders, and Training. It only takes about 3 – 5 minutes to complete.

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Want to check your R3 Project knowledge? Take our Modules terminology quiz!

Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

A group of students walking across a closed bridge at the Algonquin College Ottawa campus.

We hope you’re ready for our fourth installment of the R3 Project Terminology Quiz series! Our previous quizzes covered Admissions, Course Enrolment and 2024 Terminology. Not only are the topics different each time, but we also introduce a different game to offer a fresh perspective. Make sure to check out the previous quizzes to see which games we’ve done already.

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Want to test your R3 Project knowledge? Try out our Terminology crossword!

Posted on Monday, March 10th, 2025

A counsellor and a student smiling at each other while the counsellor points at an open book with a pen.

It’s that time again—we’ve prepared our third installment of the R3 Project Terminology Quiz series! So far, we’ve done Admissions and Course Enrolment. Each quiz offers a unique game, so make sure to check them out if you haven’t already.

The R3 Project’s Glossary page houses all the terms we’ve defined so far, so it’s a great resource to understand what language we’ll be using once we go live with our new Student Information System (SIS), Thesis Student Management (Thesis SM). And what better way to learn new things than to play a fun game?

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