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Starfish connects users to each other based on their roles and relationships. Learn the basics of Starfish for your role with our Quick Start Guides below.
ADVISERS
INSTRUCTORS
STUDENTS
About Starfish
Starfish by EAB is a higher education technology product aimed at helping students finish what they start. At Penn State, Starfish integrates with LionPATH and is the main system for advising notes, progress surveys, and academic reviews. Starfish helps us identify students in need of support in real time, based on their academic performance and concerns raised by faculty and staff. Starfish connects students to the resources designed to help, simplifies communication between faculty and staff members of students’ Success Networks, eases the burden on students who need to contact support services, and optimizes student success.
Dates for spring 2025 progress survey periods
Instructors and TAs will be asked to provide feedback to students in their full-semester, undergraduate courses at two points in the fall semester. Early Indicators Survey: Monday, January 27 – Wednesday, February 5 Mid-Semester Progress Survey: Monday, February 24 –...
Who uses Starfish?
Starfish is available to Penn State faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate students. There are many other roles in Starfish beyond those for advisers and instructors, and new roles are added all the time to fit Penn State’s specific needs.
Why is Starfish important at Penn State?
Starfish gives us the ability to support students across the University and changes how individual Penn Staters learn and work together. Learn more about Penn State’s Starfish success story.
