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Communicating with Learners about Thesis Student Portal – Part 1

Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

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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

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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

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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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Want to test your R3 Project knowledge? Take our Course Enrolment terminology quiz!

Posted on Monday, February 24th, 2025

A student sitting on a couch on campus and looking down at her open laptop.

We’re back with our second installment of the R3 Project Terminology Quiz series! Our first topic was Admissions, so feel free to check the first quiz in case you missed it.

Our topics are based on the R3 terms we’ve defined and released so far, which you can find on our website’s Glossary page. It’s also a great glimpse into the language we’ll be using with our new Student Information System (SIS), Thesis Student Management (Thesis SM). With these interactive quizzes, we hope that you can either refresh your memory or learn something new—all while having fun!

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