What is Starfish?

Starfish Solutions is a retention solution program that helps to create an online student success environment, facilitating programs such as counseling and advising, tutoring, mentoring, and others–with the aim of improving student success and retention.

Some of the features of Starfish include:

• Viewing support networks for your courses
• Receiving early alerts for academic concerns and praise for a job well done
• Getting electronic referrals and other messages
• Viewing and following academic plans
• Signing up online for appointments with course instructors, counselors and advisors
• Faculty can submit progress reports in real time and connect students to appropriate campus offices

How to Access Starfish for Faculty and Staff

Starfish is a cloud base application and it requires users to login before they will be able to utilized the features of starfish. To login, open a browser (i.e. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox). On the browser, enter www.marianas.edu/starfish such as show on the image below.

Once you press the enter key, it would automatically redirect the page to the starfish login page. The page will ask for your Email Address and the corresponding password, here we use our NMC Email (@marianas.edu for Employee and @my.marianas.edu for Students).

In the event that you are having problem logging-in, kindly try clearing your browser cache and/or logging out from your NMC Email then try to access the URL www.marianas.edu/starfish

And if this does not work, please do send an email to [email protected] and [email protected] for us to check your login credentials. Once faculty and staff log into Starfish it is strongly recommended that they update their profile with a picture and review/update their email address and phone number to ensure accuracy.

Resource Guide

For Students

• Student Demo Series: Profile
• Student Demo Series: Success Network
• Student Demo Series: Upcoming
• Student Demo Series: Dashboard & Messages
• Student Demo Series: Courses
• Student Demo Series: Request Help & History

For Faculty / Staff

• Faculty and Staff Demo Series: Email Notifications for Appointments & Tracking
• Faculty and Staff Demo Series: Updating your Profile
• Faculty and Staff Demo Series: Preparing for a Productive Student Meeting
• Faculty and Staff Demo Series: Faculty Features in Starfish
• How to Set Up Office Hours
• Update Appointment Notifications Preferences
• Respond to a Progress Survey
• Closing The Loop
• Taking Attendance
• 5 Things you can do in Starfish Early Alert Only (Presented in under 5 minutes)

For more information, download the NMC Resource Guide for Instructional Faculty and Staff

Questions about Starfish?

Instructional Faculty - Contact Faculty Liaison, William Hunter, at [email protected] or via phone at (670) 237-6882.

Counseling and Student Support Staff - Contact Student Success Leads, Kaelani Demapan or Valerie Dlg-Quitano, via phone at (670) 237-6782/5 or via email at [email protected] or [email protected]

Technical Issues - Contact Technical Leads, Dennis Marcelo or Renedel Buno, via phone at (670) 237-6860 or via email at [email protected] or [email protected]