Staff

Learn how to log into your Nanook Navigator profile, switch roles, view assigned students, search for students, and change your profile semester data.

Here is the getting started training

How to navigate the student profile

Review the getting started guide here.

Review the user settings guide here. 

Review the . 

How to access the help center and help center articles

The Staff Dashboard is a feature designed to give you an at-a-glance, actionable information about students who are assigned to you and an overview of ongoing or recent activity. Users can create custom tiles from V3 Reports to be more productive and strategic when managing your unique student caseload.

• Staff Dashboard handout
• Dashboard Tiles Customization
• New V3 Reports handout

Events allow staff to reach out to specific student populations to encourage them to sign up for events.

Alerts are created when instructors mark a student “At-Risk” during a progress report campaign or an academic alert was issued. These reports include cumulative GPA, alert reason, course related to the alert, alert is connected to a progress report or not, and the comment from the issuer.

You can pull a report of the students with alerts in the report's features. You can pull this data by advisor assignment, major/s, college, assigned advisor for management, watch lists, or etc.

Advisor intervention and data reports key.

• New V3 Reports handout

Here is the video on how to schedule download your alerts regularly:

Student Name, ID, Categories, Tags, Classification, Major, Cumulative GPA, Assigned Advisors, phone number, gender, ethnicity, address, Term Credit hours, Term GPA, Total Credit Hours Earned, student opted out of SMS, and opt in SMS.

• New V3 Reports handout

Student enrollment report provides student courses by semester, mid-term grades and final grades along with other associated course information.

Advisor intervention and data reports key.

View student grades through the enrollment report, student profile or progress reports report.

• New V3 Reports handout

Who are my advisees?

This hand-out provides instructions on how to pull a list of your advisees. The report can also provide the assigned advisors for any current student, allowing you to search by major, school, watch list, and etc.

Assigned advisors are Individual Advisors or Unit/Department Code Advisors assigned to students in the Multiple Advisors SGAADVR screen in Banner. Advisor assignment data pulled into Nanook Navigator includes both the primary and secondary assigned advisors for the listed semesters (each student) in Banner.

For advisor access in Banner, DegreeWorks and Onbase please have your department approver complete the access request form at /reg/faculty/faculty-forms.php. Click on the Access, Data & Records tab, then select Account Access Request to UAF Student Data (Banner, Onbase). For Dept/Role your department approver should select "A UAF Advisor (Any Dept).” Your departmental approver is likely the person who signs your timesheet. You *MUST* have current FERPA training before access will be granted.

New V3 Reports handout

Send text messages to students through Nanook Navigator.

• Please review the Nanook Navigator Text Message Policy before texting.
• Here is the communications video: .
• Here is the handout on how to create a messaging campaign. 
• Here is how to use the Email & Text Message Content Templates.
• New V3 Reports handout

Send e-mails to students, advisors or instructors in Nanook Navigator.

• Email Templates and Best Practices worksheet.
• Here is the communications video: .
• Here is how to use the Email & Text Message Content Templates.
• Rich Text Editor handout. 
• and (log into help center to access)
• Here is the handout on how to create a messaging campaign. 
• New V3 Reports handout

This key provides a list of the Nanook Navigator categories which can be used in reports and advanced searching. The key also provides a list of student holds or status codes you may see when viewing a student profile.

Run an advanced search to get a quick list of student names and students IDs. Staff and faculty advisors can utilize this list for creating watch lists, communicating to students, scheduling appointments, and use in combination with several other Nanook Navigator features.

NOTE: Transfer students will show up as "enrolled" for the term that their transfer courses are evaluated in. You may have transfer students who are not matriculating until a future term that may populate on your current term results. You can use the to ensure the student is enrolled in UA courses for that term. 

Here is the advanced search training video:

Run an advanced search to get a quick list of student names and students IDs of students who have not registered for an upcoming semester. Student care employees can utilize this list for creating student lists, communicating to students, scheduling appointments, and use in

combination with several other Nanook Navigator features.