Starfish Student Success Platform
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Starfish Overview
Starfish is a dynamic tool that helps faculty, staff, and students work together to foster holistic student support and promote student success. By integrating early interventions, personalized outreach, and access to resources, Starfish enables faculty and staff to build stronger relationships with students and connect them to the supports they need to succeed. Through data-driven insights and streamlined communication, Starfish helps us to create a greater sense of belonging through a more connected, supportive college community.
How Starfish Supports Students
These features, along with many others, work together to create a more connected, coordinated, and supportive campus community that can better meet the needs of students.
Using Starfish Appointments, students can connect with advisors, counselors, success coaches, tutors, instructors, and other support providers. Students can view availability, schedule appointments, and receive reminders.
Through Degree Planner, students and advisors can work together to create and maintain an academic plan, map coursework, monitor progress, and prepare for future semesters.
Kudos allow faculty and staff to recognize student accomplishments, positive behaviors, and academic progress. Whether celebrating strong performance, improvement, persistence, or engagement, kudos reinforce student success and help foster a greater sense of belonging.
Progress Surveys, Flags, and To-Dos support timely outreach and intervention. Faculty and staff can identify concerns, provide feedback, and connect students with resources before challenges become barriers to success.
Using Starfish Referrals, faculty and staff can connect students to academic, personal, financial, and other support resources. Referrals help coordinate support across departments and services.
Notes, Messaging, and Tracking Items help faculty and staff document interactions, share information appropriately, and maintain a record of support activities to promote coordinated care.
Hear from faculty and staff about how using Starfish has helped them connect with students.
Why Starfish Matters at MC?
Starfish is more than a scheduling tool. It is a key part of Montgomery College's student success efforts, supporting academic planning, early alerts, progress feedback, referrals, coordinated care, and student engagement.
By helping students connect with the right people, resources, and support at the right time, Starfish supports a more connected and student-centered experience across the College.
Helping students and employees make the most of Starfish.
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Measuring progress and strengthening support.
Explore student engagement metrics, assessment findings, student feedback, current priorities, and continuous improvement efforts.
Supporting students before challenges become barriers to success.
Learn how Montgomery College uses progress surveys, referrals, academic planning, and coordinated support practices to help students stay on track.
News & Highlights
Fall 2026 Early Alert Campaign
Planning is underway for the expansion of early alerts and progress surveys to all full-term courses.
Early Connections Through the Welcome Questionnaire
The Starfish Welcome Questionnaire provides students an opportunity to share information about their goals, interests, and support needs. Responses help the College identify opportunities for outreach and connect students with resources that support their academic success and sense of belonging.
Student Success Initiatives
Current efforts focus on coordinated care, advising milestones, early intervention, and student engagement.