Build A Successful Program With Mentoring Software

Mentoring is most often defined as a professional relationship between mentor and mentor. In this relationship, the teaching faculty assists the student in developing specific skills and knowledge which will enhance the student's intellectual personal growth. The faculty member provides guidance and support in an individualized manner to the student. The responsibilities of the teaching faculty i.e mentor are broad and diverse. They include, but not limited to serving as a role model, advising students as to coursework requirement, and providing formal instruction in a given discipline as well as helping identify and achieve their individual short and long-term educational goals.

Mentoring helps students to clear all their doubts related to a particular subject and can excel in it. It also motivates students to take up new challenges, knowing that they have someone behind them to help to solve their issues and problems related to the particular subject. With an electronic platform, there could be proper communication between the mentor and mentee regarding the progress and achievement of academic goals, which are set at the beginning of the academic year.

With the commencement of e-mentoring, it has become easy for the faculty member to mentor their students. Online software provides a guided mentoring relationship. Mentoring software provides students with a clear map of the program requirements from the beginning, making clear the coursework requirements, and expected timelines for completion all the related examinations and capstone requirements.

Mentor and Track System by Inknowledge

Mentor and Track System provides a platform to allow faculty to have a discussion with their students or trainees about their goals and progress. Mentor and Track app helps faculty member to track the progress of their students i.e mentees on the goals assigned to them for the current year.

The app includes the goal-review process for the previous year and the goal-setting process for the current year. As a part of the process, the student also completes a short survey to update his or her biodata along with listing the name of internal and external faculty members that are part of his dissertation committee and his or her expected graduation date.

The process is initiated by the faculty member by completing a review of the previous year's goal for his existing students. Faculty can add new students and can mark existing students as graduated or dropped out. During the review, the faculty marks each goal as met or not, and can add optional comments. Once the review process is complete, the faculty has an option to suggest goals for the upcoming year.

Features of Mentor and Track System:

1. The Mentor and Track System provides a platform to allow faculty to have a discussion with their students or trainees about their goals and progress.

2. It helps students to create an individual development plan and receive guidance and mentoring from their faculty in better achieving their career goals.

3. You can use goals to track the progress of students. Set goals for a new year and review the accomplishments of previous years.

4. You can run reports to monitor the progress of a mentoring activity, anticipate graduation rates and draw insights for drop-out rates.

5. You can set standardized goal templates but let faulty add new goals to suit their own unique mentoring style.

6. In Mentor and Track System, students can submit their presentations, papers published, awards and accolades every year and use that to track the progress of students.

Note: The author of this article is working with Inknowledge.

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