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Student Success
Seamlessly connect the student experience and increase retention with an integrated student success platform. Power holistic advising, strengthen engagement, and streamline services to help students reach their goals. Scale your impact with automation and trusted AI built directly into your CRM.
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How can institutions boost student success with Salesforce?
Bring together students, staff, and leaders across your institution on the #1 AI CRM. Equip your teams with holistic student views to build deeper connections that foster well-being. Visualize data quickly and harness AI-powered predictions to continually assess and improve your initiatives with our student success platform.
Deliver holistic advising experiences with collaboration tools and powerful analytics.
Unify disparate student data – SIS, LMS, admissions, and other critical sources – into one location to gain a 360-degree view of every student. Securely collaborate on a unified student record over time, share notes, and get early indicators to identify students in need. Create, automate, and aggregate alerts to take action individually or at scale.
![Understand students holistically with a 360-degree view.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-1-Version-3-1.png?w=1024)
Connect students to the right staff by providing streamlined appointment scheduling with their personal advisors and counselors. Manage dynamic schedules and offer various appointment options such as drop-ins. Customize appointment scheduling workflows to meet your advising model’s unique needs.
![Staff and student mobile view for appointment scheduling.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-3-Version2.png?w=1024)
Effortlessly navigate degree planning for a seamless journey to graduation. Streamline degree progress, empower learners, and shape each unique academic journey with an intuitive interface.
![A case record that shows a student's academic details, including alerts.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/05/EDU-Summer-24-Release-Feature-2-Intelligent-Degree-Planning_v2.png?w=1024)
Define your key student success indicators and use predictive AI insights and recommendations to take action. Gain visibility into the metrics that matter most to your institution with customizable reports and dashboards. Empower leadership with real-time data to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
![AI predicts a student's likelihood to persist.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-4-Version-3.png?w=1024)
![Understand students holistically with a 360-degree view.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-1-Version-3-1.png?w=1024)
![Staff and student mobile view for appointment scheduling.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-3-Version2.png?w=1024)
![A case record that shows a student's academic details, including alerts.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/05/EDU-Summer-24-Release-Feature-2-Intelligent-Degree-Planning_v2.png?w=1024)
![AI predicts a student's likelihood to persist.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-A-Feature-4-Version-3.png?w=1024)
Maximize engagement with personalized experiences throughout the student journey.
Personalize student communications to help create a sense of belonging with intelligent journeys that deliver relevant messages based on real-time behavior. Build targeted outreach campaigns to specific student populations who need additional support. Tailor messages using AI-generated emails enriched with student data.
![A communications journey that notifies students to register for courses.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features_Product-Capability-B-Feature-1_Version-2.png?w=1024)
Help students reach their academic, career, and personal goals. Advisors and support staff can build personalized care plans that address students’ biggest challenges and work toward specific milestones. Students can create their own action plans, visible to advisors, that quickly define actionable steps to stay on track.
![A care plan for college onboarding.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-2-Version-2-1.png?w=1024)
Give students one place to manage their journeys, no matter where they are. Students can quickly interact with their success team, manage appointments, view details on their care plans, and stay organized with a consolidated view of relevant and timely action items.
![Mobile and desktop view of the student portal.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-3_Version-3.png?w=1024)
Help students stay on track 24/7. Proactively send students reminders to complete important tasks. Automate answers to the most common questions or routine processes, and free up staff to focus on what matters most – creating more meaningful interactions with students.
![Student interaction with a chatbot.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-4-Version-2.png?w=1024)
![A communications journey that notifies students to register for courses.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features_Product-Capability-B-Feature-1_Version-2.png?w=1024)
![A care plan for college onboarding.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-2-Version-2-1.png?w=1024)
![Mobile and desktop view of the student portal.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-3_Version-3.png?w=1024)
![Student interaction with a chatbot.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-B-Feature-4-Version-2.png?w=1024)
Streamline student services with a one-stop center, powered by AI.
Quickly triage students’ needs using case management functionality trusted by institutions across the globe. Give your staff the most relevant data and automate the distribution of cases so they can deliver impactful support to every student. Instantly collaborate to resolve cases faster by swarming in Slack.
![A student's advising case record.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature1-Version2-1.png?w=1024)
Use AI to quickly surface relevant information during student support interactions and resolve issues faster. Automatically summarize case resolutions and securely share with select staff to improve collaboration, feed your knowledge base, and scale operations.
![AI surfaces a case summary.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature-2-Version-2.png?w=1024)
Enable students to quickly self-serve and save staff time by making useful information easily accessible. Use AI to summarize support interactions and create helpful knowledge articles. Build a robust knowledge base with articles on topics ranging from campus resources to frequently asked questions.
![Knowledge Articles designed to help answer students' questions faster.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature-3_Version-5.png?w=1024)
Track student support programs and the services they provide, like career readiness, tutoring, and well-being. Publish available support programs for students to self-discover and enroll in. Report on program and service utilization, identify trends, and assess performance.
![Mobile and desktop view of the support programs a student is enrolled in.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features_Product-Capability-C-Feature-4_Version-2.png?w=1024)
![A student's advising case record.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature1-Version2-1.png?w=1024)
![AI surfaces a case summary.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education-Student-Success-Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature-2-Version-2.png?w=1024)
![Knowledge Articles designed to help answer students' questions faster.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features-Product-Capability-C-Feature-3_Version-5.png?w=1024)
![Mobile and desktop view of the support programs a student is enrolled in.](https://wp.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/Education_Student-Success_Product-Features_Product-Capability-C-Feature-4_Version-2.png?w=1024)
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- Determine the right solution for your institution's needs
- Build a tailored plan to help you get up and running fast
- Connect with use cases from trailblazing institutions
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Student Success FAQ
Student success software helps advisors, faculty, and staff unify data to seamlessly connect the student experience. With one, integrated platform, staff can power holistic advising, strengthen student engagement, streamline services, and improve productivity using analytics and trusted AI.
The right student success platform can help institutions increase student retention, graduation, and satisfaction rates. Instead of stitching data together across disparate systems, staff can save time with unified views of every student and support them throughout their entire educational journey.
When comparing student success software, consider whether the solution has the integrations and customizations you're looking for, a reputable user experience and ROI, trusted customer support, and the flexibility to grow with your evolving needs. Outline your pain points, compare features, and explore key references.
Institutions of all sizes trust Salesforce's student success platform to not only elevate the student experience, but also to increase staff productivity at scale. In fact, Forrester Consulting highlighted a retention increase and the ROI benefits of Salesforce for multiple institutions in this research.