What is Navigate?
Navigate is an online platform specifically created for community college students that gets you from orientation to graduation. It helps you choose the right major, maneuver requirements from financial aid to course registration, and stay on top of important dates and deadlines—all in the palm of your hand. Navigate has made staying on top of the things you need to do and making the important decisions of college easier. It’s the ultimate guide to build a path to graduation—and stay on that path.
Helps You Find the Right Fit: Navigate’s Major Explorer tool connects your interests and goals to the best major at the college!
Makes Scheduling Easy: Navigate’s Scheduler takes into account students’ priorities and responsibilities outside of school, including work, family, and even commuting time.
Allows One-Click Registration: Once a student goes through all the other steps, they will be just one click away from registering for classes.
Getting You Ready to Register: Once a students goes through all the other steps, they will have an outline of their course selections -bring to your advisor for approval and registration.
Navigate Features
The first step to becoming an expert in Navigate is to understand the key features that support the student platform as a whole, including the Path, Major Explorer, Plan, and Scheduling.
Path
The Path feature of Navigate serves as the backbone of the on-boarding experience for students by providing to-dos, resources, and key dates to students at the right time.
Major Explorer
The Major Explorer allows students to sort out their goals, preferences, and areas of interest before providing a recommended course of study. This feature functions as a simple intake survey that only takes a few minutes to complete and is able to be retaken at any time by the user.
Plan
The Plan portion of Navigate is the Academic Planning section of the tool, which allows students to course plan for both their current and future terms. Planned courses for the term appear on the left and show available sections when clicked on. Students have the ability to see course specifics, such as the instructor, class location, and available seats.
Scheduling
The Scheduling feature allows students to set their preferences for where they’d like to take classes, block any unavailable time in their schedules, and easily register for classes with one click.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How do I log into Navigate?
To log into Navigate, visit rccc.navigate.eab.com. Navigate uses single-sign on, so use your Rowan-Cabarrus username and password.
Are student reports/notes subject to FERPA?
Yes, student reports/notes in Navigate are part of the student’s education record and subject to FERPA.
How do I change my notification settings?
In “My Profile”, select “Notification Settings”, there you can personalize your notification preferences. You can also opt into text messaging if you prefer text to receiving an email. After you select text messages you will be prompted to enter a valid cell phone number.
What does it mean if a Step is an “autocomplete task”?
Some important Steps in Navigate can be automatically marked as complete based on the school’s official record stored in the student information system (SIS). You can mark these Steps complete, but they will remain in the Path until the school has an official record of this Step being complete in the SIS.
Something is wrong with “My Plan.”
Select the “Need some help?” button and type in a description of the issue you need fixed. If you registered for classes using another system besides Navigate, the course schedule will update overnight and will reflect changes the following day.
How often is the data in Navigate updated?
Data in Navigate is pulled from Rowan-Cabarrus’ data warehouse nightly. Any changes made to a student’s record in WebAdvisor will be reflected in Navigate the following day.
The Steps I’m seeing don’t look right to me…
What term of college are you in? Did you select the wrong term? Go to “My Profile”, and then select “My Path Settings”. There, students can update their path starting term by scrolling down a drop-down menu of terms. Select the correct term and the student’s term will update.
I just resolved a Hold, why is it still showing up?
Holds are updated every 24 hours in Navigate, so check back tomorrow to see if it’s successfully been resolved in Navigate. If the issue persists, select the “Need some help?” button.
Help, I can't log into Navigate!
If you are having trouble logging into Navigate, submit a ticket or call the IS Help Desk (704-216-7200). If you have already logged in and are having trouble, access the Navigate Help by selecting the “help” button in the top-right corner of the application.
If staff or faculty communicates with a student through Navigate, does it go to their Rowan-Cabarrus email?
Yes, any messages you send from Navigate go to the student’s Rowan-Cabarrus email, they do not need to sign-in to the platform to retrieve the message. Any replies to messages from Navigate will go to your Rowan-Cabarrus email as well.