Supporting Diverse Learners In Continuing Education: How SDCCD’s Streamlined Onboarding With A Multilingual Online Orientation
CASE STUDY
San Diego College of Continuing Education (SDCCE) faced significant challenges in streamlining enrollment and onboarding for its diverse student body. Many of their students encountered barriers with language, technology, and scheduling, making it difficult to provide consistent, accessible onboarding through traditional methods. Faculty and staff also needed a way to freeup time for more personalized educational planning while still ensuring that students received all essential orientation information.
To address these challenges, SDCCE partnered with Innovative Educators (IE) to implement a comprehensive online orientation platform. This solution offers students 24/7 access to orientation content in multiple languages, allowing them to engage with critical information on their own schedule. Filmed across multiple campuses, the orientation captures the diversity of SDCCE’s community and features the voices of students, staff, and the college president—reinforcing the institution’s commitment to empowering learners.
By adopting IE’s platform, SDCCE has not only improved accessibility and streamlined onboarding but also freed up counselors to focus on personalized support and educational planning. This shift ensures that students are better prepared to succeed from day one while benefiting from more meaningful interactions with staff.
One of the things that stood out for me is that we can offer it in different languages. That was huge for us because we have such a large ESL population.
Dr. Shakerra Carter
Vice President of Student Services
ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
Largest provider of noncredit education in California
Over 70 free career training programs
Enroll students from 149 countries and all 50 states
82% of students are over the age of 24
CHALLENGES RESOLVED
Provide content in multiple languages, addressing the needs of SCCD’s large population of ESL students
Offer a streamlined and centralized orientation process for all students
Allows students to access orientation materials anytime, reducing dependence on counselor schedules
Flexible programming lets students complete orientation at their own pace and revisit information as needed, offering greater autonomy.