About MapperGPT
MapperGPT explores how conversational AI can support students as they navigate academic pathways, transfer options, and planning questions.
The project builds on Program Pathways Mapper by adding a chatbot experience that helps users ask questions in natural language and connect pathway information with a more understandable and engaging interface.
This website serves as a public-facing overview of the project, its research context, technical collaborators, partner connections, example mapper pages, and prototype links.
The Problem
Students often need to piece together transfer information, course sequencing, and program requirements from multiple systems and websites.
Students may need help outside of advising hours and benefit from fast, understandable answers while making important academic decisions.
Student-support tools should be readable, mobile-friendly, and accessible to a broad range of users, including transfer and first-generation students.
What PPM Is
Program Pathways Mapper helps make academic pathways more visible and understandable.
It gives students a clearer view of programs, routes to completion, and pathway options. MapperGPT extends this approach by adding an AI-supported chatbot layer that lets users ask questions and interact with pathway information in a more natural way.
The broader goal is to connect pathway visualization with conversational support so students can explore options more confidently.
SFSU Technical and Research Team
SFSU supports the technical and research-aligned side of the chatbot effort.
This section highlights the SFSU collaborators connected to the backend, research direction, and technical development surrounding the chatbot edition of the project.
Add graduate-student spotlights here later, or link them to individual news posts and research updates in the News section.
SFSU faculty collaborator connected to the technical and research direction of the project.
SFSU faculty collaborator connected to technical strategy, leadership, and backend-related work.
Add graduate student profiles, research summaries, or project spotlights here as the site grows.
Foundation for California Community Colleges
Leadership and partnership connections within the Program Pathways Mapper ecosystem.
Foundation for California Community Colleges Team
This section highlights leadership and partnership connections related to the PPM ecosystem.
These collaborators are part of the broader statewide and system-support context around Program Pathways Mapper and related student-pathway efforts.
Connected to statewide AI, digital transformation, and pathway-related innovation in the California community college system.
Connected to technology solutions, special projects, and the broader PPM support ecosystem.
Merced College Team
Project leadership, undergraduate contributors, outreach, and public-facing implementation.
Merced College Team
Merced College is the home of the project’s public-facing implementation, student engagement, and undergraduate participation.
This section can highlight the faculty lead and undergraduate contributors who support development, testing, outreach, and project updates.
Project lead and contact for questions, comments, and collaboration related to MapperGPT.
Add a Merced College student contributor profile, role description, and project link here.
Add a second Merced College student contributor profile, related work, or prototype support role here.
Example Program Mapper Pages
Merced College provides information about its Program Pathways Mapper as part of its pathway and student planning resources.
Use this as an example of how an individual Program Mapper page can look and function.
Prototype Access
Visit the prototype page to launch the current chatbot experience and related demo links.
Contact and Notice
Questions and Comments
Contact Professor Kanemoto at kanemoto.k@mccd.edu for questions and comments about this webpage.
Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed on this website are those of the project authors and contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of Merced College, San Francisco State University, or the Foundation for California Community Colleges.
Merced College
Official Merced College website