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Starfish

Starfish (formerly HuskySuccess) is available to connect students to instructors, advisors, support staff, and campus resources to get them the help they need. We look forward to supporting your goals and success – Onward!

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Starfish facilitates communication among academic advisors, instructors, students, and others who are here to support student learning. Three things students can do in Starfish:

  1. Stay on top of upcoming appointments and recommendations from your instructors and advisors from your Dashboard
  2. Connect with people in your Success Network and Campus Services
  3. Fill out the Intake Survey to help your advisors and instructors get to know you better

How to Use Starfish (HuskySuccess)

Getting started guides and other tutorials for students and faculty/staff.

Guides
5 Steps to HuskySuccess (3:28)
Student Getting Started Guide (pdf)
How to log in (pdf)
BOLT - HuskySuccess - MyHusky (pdf)
Change Appointment Duration (pdf)
Add or Change your Pronouns in Starfish (pdf)

Student Video Tutorials
Student Demo: Student Profile (2:45)
Student Demo: Success Network (2:47)
Student Demo: Upcoming (1:38)
Student Demo: Dashboard and Messages (3:19)
Student Demo: Courses (1:38)
Student Demo: Request Help & History (1:55)

Faculty/Staff

Starfish Spring 2023 usage as of 5-12-23

Guides
Faculty/Staff Getting Started with Starfish (pdf)
Find Your Advisees or Majors/Minors List (pdf)
Completing a Progress Survey – for faculty (pdf)
Electronic Notetaking Guide (pdf)
Calendar Integration (pdf)
Scheduling Office Hours (pdf)
Workflows (pdf)
Quick Guide to Flags and Referrals (pdf)
Quick Guide to Flags and Referrals Infographic (pdf)
Taking Attendance (pdf)

Faculty/Staff Video Tutorials
Calendar Integration Guide (4:31)
Updating Your Profile (2:49)
Email Notifications and Tracking (3:25)
Preparing for a Productive Student Meeting (5:18)
Clear a Flag in Starfish
Faculty Features in Starfish
Scheduling Office Hours (2:59)

Contact Information

Project Manager – Jessica Heid – jheid@commonwealthu.edu

Functional Lead – Kara Shultz – kshultz@commonwealthu.edu

 

 

 

Minimum Technical Specifications

Microsoft – Edge latest version and one previous; Internet Explorer 11

Mozilla – Firefox latest version and one previous and most recent ESR version

Google – Chrome latest version and one previous

Apple – Safari latest version and one previous

The term ‘latest version’ is defined by the browser vendors. Check with your browser vendor.

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TLS 1.2 or better web browser support

Third-party cookies enabled. If you don't want to universally allow third-party cookies, you can add an Exception to only allow third-party cookies from Starfish. You will want to research how to do this for your specific browser. The URL you should add to this Exceptions list is bloomu.starfishsolutions.com. This Exception should be set as Allow.