Know what your programs are developing—not just what they are designed to teach.
Define the skills and capabilities each program is designed to develop. Thurgood connects those expectations to student work and evidence, giving you a clearer view of what students are demonstrating, where capabilities are still developing and how those capabilities align with employer demand. Students can add evidence directly, while instructors can capture hands-on work as it happens through the Lab Evidence System. Use that intelligence in the ways that fit your institution—from program improvement and student support to employer engagement, reporting and workforce alignment.
Connect program design to the capabilities students actually demonstrate.
Your existing systems already know who is enrolled, what courses students take and whether they complete them. Thurgood adds a different view: what those students can demonstrate along the way.
Keep your SIS, LMS and student environment.
Continue using the systems that already manage enrollment, coursework, instruction and completion. Thurgood is designed to complement that infrastructure rather than replace it.
Fit the Graph into the way your institution already works.
Where appropriate, API integration, automated student provisioning and Single Sign-On can connect Thurgood to your existing student environment and program structure.
Add visibility into demonstrated capability.
Connect program expectations to student evidence, demonstrated skills, developing capabilities and workforce demand.
See how a program becomes a measurable capability pathway.
Follow an HVAC program from pathway design into student evidence, compare demonstrated skills across students and see how capability intelligence can support program decisions and employer alignment.
Capture demonstrated skills while the work is happening.
Hands-on learning happens in labs, shops, clinical environments and training spaces. The Lab Evidence System gives instructors a shared, tablet-friendly workflow for documenting that work in the moment.
Select the lab, cohort, student and skill, then take a photo or record a video. The evidence is saved directly to the student's existing Verified Skills Graph—the same capability record the student sees in the Thurgood app.
Schools control which tablets can access the system, which labs and cohorts are active, who is assigned to teach them and which students belong to each roster.
One capability layer. Different ways for institutions to use it.
Every institution has different priorities. The Verified Skills Graph gives schools a shared foundation for understanding demonstrated capability without prescribing a single academic, student-support or employer-engagement model.
See the evidence behind skill development.
Connect the capabilities a program is designed to develop with actual work and evidence produced by students and captured during instruction.
See capability student by student and across programs.
Understand where capabilities are being demonstrated, where they are still developing and where patterns may deserve a closer look.
Turn capability gaps into useful next steps.
Institutions that choose to can connect developing skills to additional evidence, practice, instruction, tutoring or other student-support workflows.
See how your pathways line up with employer needs.
Compare the capabilities your programs develop with the capabilities employers are asking for and identify where alignment is strong or changing.
See the full capability picture—and decide what to do with it.
Thurgood connects the skills a program intends to develop with evidence of what students demonstrate. Evidence can come directly from students or be captured during hands-on instruction through the Lab Evidence System. From there, institutions can use that intelligence according to their own priorities and workflows.
Give students a clearer view of what they have accomplished and what comes next.
As students demonstrate capabilities, their Verified Skills Graph grows with them. Evidence captured by the student and evidence documented during instruction contribute to the same skills record. They can see skills they have demonstrated, capabilities they are still building and the evidence connected to their progress. That creates meaningful milestones throughout a program—not just a credential at the end.
Make accomplishment visible.
Give students a tangible record of the capabilities they are developing as they move through a program.
Show what still needs to be demonstrated.
Help students understand which capabilities are still developing and where additional evidence may strengthen their skills record.
Create more milestones between enrollment and completion.
Visible progress can give institutions another way to reinforce student accomplishment, engagement and continued development.
Capability intelligence becomes more useful when your institution can act on it.
Different schools will use capability information differently. Thurgood can support workflows that connect what the Graph reveals to the people and next steps that matter to your institution.
Identify where additional development may help.
Use developing capabilities to inform tutoring, practice, additional instruction, new evidence or other support models your institution already uses.
Connect insight to engagement.
Use communications to reinforce progress, request additional evidence, share next steps or connect students to relevant support and opportunities.
See patterns worth investigating.
Capability trends can help program leaders identify where students consistently demonstrate skills and where additional attention may be useful.
Bring demonstrated capability into outcomes conversations.
Add capability evidence to program review, workforce reporting, accountability, grant and funding conversations where appropriate.
Make employer relationships more useful without giving up institutional control.
Schools can connect the Graph to the employer model that fits their institution—from existing employer partners and advisory relationships to broader talent networks. Institutions can control participating employers and the appropriate visibility of student information and evidence.
Bring your employer relationships into the same skills language.
Employers can describe roles through required and preferred capabilities, creating a clearer connection between program development and workforce demand.
Connect demonstrated capability to opportunity.
Where appropriate, approved employers can understand how student capabilities align with the roles they are trying to fill.
See what employer demand may be telling you about your programs.
Identify emerging skills, changing requirements and areas where employer demand may inform future program decisions.
Use the Verified Skills Graph without giving up control of how your institution works.
Institutions can determine how the Graph fits their programs, student-support model, employer relationships and administrative workflows. Student evidence does not need to become public simply because it is part of the Verified Skills Graph. Visibility, employer participation and institutional workflows can be configured around the way your organization chooses to operate.
Depending on your existing infrastructure, Thurgood can support approaches including roster and program synchronization, API integration, automated account provisioning and Single Sign-On through an existing student portal or identity environment.
Give program leaders better evidence for the decisions they already make.
Use capability data to inform program improvement, student development, employer engagement, outcomes reporting, workforce grants, accreditation discussions and broader funding conversations. Thurgood does not replace the formal systems, processes or requirements behind those decisions. It adds evidence about the capabilities your instruction is developing.
See how a school builds and uses capability pathways.
Enter a working school environment, explore programs and pathways, review student evidence and see how demonstrated skills can connect to student development, program intelligence and employer demand.