For Post-Secondary Schools Adapting this Program

This program is intended for students and staff at the University of Windsor.

Under the CC-BY-NC-SA licence, you are free to share this Pressbook by coping and redistributing the material in any medium or format. You may also adapt this Pressbook by remixing, transforming, and building upon the material for any purpose. To do so, you must provide attribution by giving appropriate credit, providing a link to the license, and indicating if changes were made.

Customization

You can customize this Pressbook in many ways, such as, but not limited to:

• Appearance: Change theme and customize Textbox colours under “Theme Options”.
  • We have made some changes to the custom CSS coding located under “Appearance” > “Custom Styles” (this is annotated at the top to explain what changes were made)
  • To revert back to the standard theme, you can simply delete everything under “Your Styles” and re-save
• Add, adapt, or substitute H5P and multimedia material.
• Edit content to be more specific for your institution.
• Since the program is modular, you can turn off chapters that may not be applicable for your institution, or add in new ones that your students may benefit from.
• To institutionalize it for yourself, you can make customizations such as:
  • Branding with your school’s logo
  • Branding by changing the colours of textboxes to your institution’s colours
  • Change the name and/or cover of the book to be more institution-specific
  • Replace general media with specific images of your institution, students, and so on.

Original Decisions (Current Version)

We have made many decisions that lead to this finalized version of the Pressbook.

• We chose to utilize and create content based on what would be most significant to incoming students within the first few days to weeks of their post-secondary experience.
• We positioned this program to be viewed by students in second person narrative.

Sustainability Plan

Defining Sustainability

Sustainability is synonymous with longevity. The successful continuation of an open transition support program offered to first-year students beginning their post-secondary educational journeys provides opportunities for students across Ontario institutions to access content specifically curated for a smoother transition into a new school system. In terms of this project, we define the sustainability of this program as: 

• The durability of the program outline as it provides a basic “template” for other organizations/institutions to utilize, revise, and incorporate for their own first-year students.
• The organization and formulation of program modules and activities, as they will need to remain up to date and consistently reflect the policies and procedures of their respected organizations/institutions.
• Accountability and responsibility from essential staff and organizations who accept the position of project ownership, with the sole purpose of ensuring the program continuation each year through successful management and administration.
• Financial sustainability through funding by the organization that retains ownership.

Defining Our Roles as Project Developers

We’ve spent time designing this transition support program to highlight topics and concerns that any student may experience as they transition into post-secondary education through our own post-secondary education experiences and the experiences of our peers and students. Combining our perspectives and backgrounds with the direct experiences, concerns, and impressions of other students allowed us to develop an inclusive, accessible transition modules that focuses on central themes showcased in each module. 

Program Manual

How was the program created?