Degree Compass

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Degree Compass is a course recommendation system originally developed by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. The system successfully pairs current students with the courses that best fit their talents and program of study for upcoming semesters. The model combines hundreds of thousands of past students’ grades with each particular student’s transcript to make individualized recommendations for each student.


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Desire2Learn Degree Compass is a personalized, web-based course recommendation tool that uses predictive analytics to guide students’ course selection in a way that not only enhances the rate of academic success but also drives on-time completion of their degree.

Built for both advisors and students, Degree Compass delivers real-time academic advisement that helps students plan the most successful path to graduation from the moment they begin making first-year course selections right through to their final term of study.


Degree Compass: A Course Recommendation System

A review of Degree Compass on Trsitan Denley published on September 4, 2013