FAQ

• Pathways is an online tool that’s designed to support integrative advising. That means it helps faculty, advisors, staff and mentors stay connected with the student and the student’s other advisors and mentors in order to advance a student’s goals, progress and well-being throughout their academic career.
• Similar to advising tools used on campuses around the country, Pathways is customized for Mount Holyoke College.
• Pathways provides a secure way to share and store advising information between faculty and staff and with students and their advising network.
• Pathways allows faculty and staff to identify concern for students about their progress in their classes. They can also schedule appointments with students and/or refer students to other advisors on campus as needed.
• Students can use Pathways to alert their advisors that they have questions or need help with some area of their college life.

• Every Mount Holyoke undergraduate student has their own individual Pathways account.
• Every Mount Holyoke faculty or staff member who works directly with students in an advising capacity also has a Pathways account.
• Five college students who are taking an MHC course will have access for the semester. Faculty from the five colleges do *not* have access.

• For faculty and staff, a Pathways account may contain important information about a student’s progress in their classes, along with the names of other faculty/staff in the student’s advising network.
• A Pathways account also contains notes and information from and between the student’s network of advisors.
• For students, a Pathways account contains information about their Mount Holyoke experience such as course feedback and their advising network.

There are several places where you can sign into Pathways, such as:

• From the MHC login page, click on the Pathways link.
• From the Pathways website, click on the Pathways logo.
• Sign in directly by going to pathways.mtholyoke.edu.

Regardless of which place you login from, you will be asked to first select your institution, and to login using your institution's username and password.

Our FAQs about specific features can be found on the Pathways Resource Site in my.mtholyoke.

Students, please visit the appropriate my.mtholyoke page (i.e. course feedback, raise your hand, scheduling and updating appointments, student dashboard and intake form) and FAQs will be located on the last tab.

Faculty and staff, please visit the appropriate FAQ pages in my.mtholyoke:

• Tracking Items FAQ
• Appointment FAQ
• Progress Survey FAQ
• Student/Advisee Information FAQ

If your specific question is not answered within our FAQ, please email us at pathways@mtholyoke.edu.