Student Success Support

The materials in this section help you drive student success and empower your students to make good financial choices for lifelong success.

Refer to these materials to learn how to use Cohort Catalyst to help keep your students on the road to repayment success.

  • Configure Cohort Catalyst Settings provides steps for configuring Cohort Catalyst settings, including general information and product-specific settings. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • View Loan Status Details in Cohort Catalyst provides steps for viewing and generating reports in the Loan Status Summary component for a breakdown of your portfolio by loan status. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.

  • Cohort Catalyst Promotional Materials provides schools with a list of print-ready and digital resources that can be personalized to promote the school's partnership with Ascendium's student loan repayment support. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Cohort Catalyst Banner Ad provides schools with a digital ad to raise student awareness that Ascendium's Repayment Support team is available for student loan counseling support. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Cohort Catalyst Student Flyer provides schools with a way to personalize information to raise student awareness that Ascendium's Repayment Support Team is a trusted and available resource. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Cohort Catalyst Rack Card provides schools with a way to personalize information to raise student awareness that Ascendium's Repayment Support Team is a legitimate and available resource. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Cohort Catalyst TV Slide provides schools with a digital TV slide to help raise awareness that Ascendium's Repayment Support team is available for student loan counseling support. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.

Refer to this guide to learn how to use Cohort Analyzer to tackle cohort data challenges.

  • Cohort Analyzer Dashboard User Guide provides instructions on how schools can quickly and easily identify cohort discrepancies through the Cohort Analyzer Dashboard. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.

Refer to these materials to set up College Cost Meter to send your student loan debt letters.

  • Learn About College Cost Meter PDF explains how you can access and use this versatile tool to quickly and easily send correspondence to your students containing information on cost of attendance, grants/scholarships, and student loans.

  • College Cost Meter Dashboard User Guide provides instructions on how schools can harness the power of College Cost Meter's Dashboard. Gain insight into the status of student debt letters and utilize audit reporting to help mandated schools comply with state legislation. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Configure College Cost Meter Correspondence provides steps for configuring College Cost Meter correspondence. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Configure General Account Information for Your Attigo Products provides steps for configuring general account information for all your Attigo products. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Transfer Student Monitoring/Financial Aid History Batch Inform Files to EdConnect provides steps for uploading the Student Monitoring/Financial Aid History Batch Inform file (Financial Aid Transcript (FAT001) data file) to EdConnect to send to the National Student Loan Data System. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.

  • Student Debt Letter Best Practices PDF takes a closer look at debt letters and provides tips on how to use them most effectively.
  • College Cost Meter Promotional Materials provides schools with a list of communications (an email, text, poster, and TV ad) they may personalize and provide to students to help raise awareness that a debt letter is coming soon, and why they need to pay attention to it. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • College Cost Meter Promotional Poster is available to personalize, print, and display for students to help raise awareness that a debt letter is coming soon, and why they need to pay attention to it. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • College Cost Meter TV Slide display for students to help raise awareness that a debt letter is coming soon, and why they need to pay attention to it. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • College Cost Meter TV Slide Transcript Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • School College Cost Meter File Field Details provides details about the fields included in this file so you can provide the necessary student data in the required format to populate College Cost Meter correspondence. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Header Row Spreadsheet can also be downloaded to help you easily use the data. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • School College Cost Meter File Quick Guide - California Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
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Use these resources to build an online curriculum to support your student success initiatives.

  • GradReady Reminder Emails to Inactive Users motivates targeted inactive GradReady users to persist and complete the curriculum effortlessly through automated reminder emails. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Getting Started: A Student's Guide to GradReady walks students through how GradReady works from initial start-up to curriculum completion. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • GradReady Dashboard User Guide provides instructions on how administrators can harness the power of GradReady's Dashboard. Learn how to monitor engagement within the tool, as well as measure and report on improvements in knowledge and behavior for the topics presented. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • GradReady Pre-Enrollment User Guide provides instructions on using the pre-enrollment feature to identify a unique cohort of users and then track their activities within GradReady. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • GradReady Financial Wellness Promotional Materials a list of print-ready and digital resources that can be personalized and provided to students to promote use of GradReady. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • GradReady Student Success Promotional Materials a list of print-ready and digital resources as well as communication templates that can be personalized and provided to students to promote use of GradReady. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Repayment Support Promotional Materials a list of print-ready and digital resources as well as communication templates that can be personalized and provided to students to promote use of Student Loan Success Center. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • GradReady Social Media Promotional Resources to help maximize engagement we offer social media graphics optimized for multiple channels. Image of key signifying locked documents. Log in to view this document.
  • Financial Literacy Curriculum PDF is a road map of timely topics, key points to cover, and specific learning activities relevant to various stages of college enrollment.
  • Financial Literacy That Sticks PDF empowers you to build a curriculum, promote financial wellness, and engage students in lifelong financial learning.
  • Guiding Students to Financial Wellness: A Collection of Case Studies PDF shares efforts and results from three universities that used GradReady to engage their students in programs and activities to enhance smart financial decision-making.
  • 12 Months of Student Engagement PDF provides a calendar with monthly email suggestions, posts, and tweets to connect your students with timely topics in GradReady.
  • Top 10 Reasons Why You Need to Get GradReady PDF provides a one-page overview of GradReady's features for students.