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The Bengal Success Portal is a tool that provides you with a central location to connect you with the people and services that can help you succeed at Buffalo State. This guide helps students get started with the Bengal Success Portal.

Flags and Kudos can also be raised by submitting a progress survey.  Progress Surveys will be sent at specific times during each term. You will receive an email reminder when there is a new survey for you to complete.  Instructors will receive a separate survey for each course, reflecting the course’s roster.

Your Bengal Success Portal profile will let your students know who you are and how to contact you. Your profile also allows you to set appointment and email preferences. Some components of your profile, such as your contact information, are imported from Banner.

Within the Notifications tab, you are able to specify Appointment Notifications, specify settings to receive Summary Emails, and set Tracking Item rules.

After initially setting your office hours, you can setup additional office hours or make changes.

Appointments can be cancelled by the student, instructor, and/or adviser. To cancel a Bengal Success Portal appointment from Outlook, simply locate the appointment on your Outlook Calendar and cancel or decline the appointment. Appointments can also be cancelled within the Bengal Success Portal

Instructors are able to download an Attendance Report to see a record of all attendance they have recorded in the Bengal Success Portal.

Your Appointment Preferences allow you to define office hours blocks, specify office locations, and allow others to manage your calendar.

The first time you login to the Bengal Success Portal, a ‘wizard’ to walk you through setting up your office hours, which enables students to schedule time with you.

Before or after interacting with a student in office hours, advising hours, or a meeting, instructors and advisers are able to record appointment outcomes.

Adding SpeedNotes allows you to quickly record the content or results of your meeting with a student.

Instructors are able to record attendance for each class meeting in the Bengal Success Portal.

The Bengal Success Portal is able to read busy times from your Buffalo State Exchange Calendar. In order to this to take effect, you will need to enable this setting in the Bengal Success Portal and must share your Exchange calendar.

Instructors and advisers are able to schedule appointments with students using the Bengal Success Portal.