Student Roles

In the Slug Success system, users have specific assigned "Roles" that determine what information and which pages they're allowed to view and interact with. If you have a student employee working in your office who may need to have additional access to Slug Success in order to do their job, please take a look at the following information to determine which role(s) your student needs.

By default, all currently enrolled undergraduate students can do the following in Slug Success:

• Login using their CruzID and Gold password

• View their current enrolled classes, schedule, and instructor(s)

  • The above info is also available for previous quarters along with their posted grades

• View availability and schedule appointments (for advising/department staff who have set up appointment availability in Slug Success)

• View upcoming scheduled appointments

• Cancel upcoming scheduled appointments

• View upcoming drop-in times (for departments/advisors who have set up drop-in availability in Slug Success)

• Send a message to their assigned advisors and faculty (those messages will be forwarded to the associated user’s email inbox)

In addition to the above, students with the Front Desk role can:

• Access Appointment Center mode to do the following:

  • Search for students

  • Create and edit Advising and General appointments (for department/advising staff who have set up appointment availability in Slug Success)

  • Check students in (and remove check-ins) for scheduled and drop-in appointments (for department/advising staff who have set up drop-in availability in Slug Success)

• Send messages to students and non-students (those messages will be forwarded to the associated user’s UCSC email inbox)

and students with the Peer Advisor role can:

• Add advising availability (appointments or drop-ins) so they are available for student appointment scheduling and check-ins

• View students in the appointment queue for your location and create advising reports (start appointments) for students in the queue

• View and modify advising reports that they have created

• Access Appointment Center mode to do the following:

  • Check students in for their advising appointments (scheduled or drop-ins)

If you have questions about the different student roles in Slug Success, please send an email to slugsuccess-help@ucsc.edu.

Supervisors only: If you want to request the Front Desk role to be added to your student assistant's Slug Success account, please send an email to slugsuccess-help@ucsc.edu and include the student (or students') name, and ID#. If you want to request the Peer Advisor role to be added to your student assistant's Slug Success account, please submit this Google form.