Academic Early Alert within Sakai

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Christina Schwiebert

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Jun 23, 2022, 10:36:08 AM6/23/22
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Hello all! . 
Northwest State uses an academic early warning system where instructors can flag a student as 'at risk' due to non-attendance or poor performance on tests or assignments. Right now, faculty have to go to a separate system to enter these flags for our advisors and tutoring center to follow up with. We are looking at replacing the current system, and there's some interest in trying to link or embed this within the Sakai course sites for the instructors to access easily. 

Does anyone else do something similar? If so, I'd love to hear about it to bring some ideas back.
Thanks!

Christina
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Jennifer Loudiana

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Jun 23, 2022, 10:39:00 AM6/23/22
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We do a similar thing we link it on the front and inside Home page to a O365 form the instructors fill out.

 

Jennifer Loudiana

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David Eveland

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Jun 23, 2022, 10:45:21 AM6/23/22
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Christina,

 

I think there are other systems out there and we have something similar, but I think it’s low tech. An great fit would be for some back-end algorithm to keep tabs on student attendance and grades and then automatically notify the appropriate support services. Doing so though would require a system to have access to all current courses a student is taking and be aware of the attendance policy for each course (some of our courses meet twice a week some meet once a week).

 

IN any case we task our faculty/instructors with this role, but embed the reporting system in every course. We do this using a combination of Web Content tool, course template and Master courses, and a slight of hand (we house the Faculty Tips area set to public in a project site). This combination allows us to change out the content in all of our courses if we need to with small adjustments to the project site:

 

 

The Early Alert form asks for just a few items including the reason for reporting:

 

  • Academic performance
  • Class attendance
  • Attentiveness in class
  • Never attended class
  • Low test scores
  • Low homework/quiz scores
  • Not submitting work

With a comments box for more information. We’ve used this process for a few years, and of course something more automated would be great. I’d also love to hear what others are using/doing.

 

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David W. Schropfer

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Jun 23, 2022, 11:35:18 AM6/23/22
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Hi Christina,

We are building a tool to consume our attendance/participation data and look for trends that may indicate a student is at risk. It will be fully automated with no faculty input required.  However, the tool will not be ready for this Fall.

Could we talk offline about your requirements for such a product?  

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On Jun 23, 2022, at 10:45 AM, David Eveland <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

Christina,
 
I think there are other systems out there and we have something similar, but I think it’s low tech. An great fit would be for some back-end algorithm to keep tabs on student attendance and grades and then automatically notify the appropriate support services. Doing so though would require a system to have access to all current courses a student is taking and be aware of the attendance policy for each course (some of our courses meet twice a week some meet once a week).
 
IN any case we task our faculty/instructors with this role, but embed the reporting system in every course. We do this using a combination of Web Content tool, course template and Master courses, and a slight of hand (we house the Faculty Tips area set to public in a project site). This combination allows us to change out the content in all of our courses if we need to with small adjustments to the project site:
 
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Martin Ramsay

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Jun 24, 2022, 6:02:31 AM6/24/22
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Hi Christina,

We extract attendance data from Sakai for some of the LAMP Consortium members and automatically feed it into their early warning systems.  My understanding is that those early warning systems are sophisticated enough to use not only academic data from Sakai, but things like participation in clubs and athletics, etc. to try to get a wholistic picture of a students participation or lack thereof in college life thus identifying students (particularly freshmen) who are at risk for dropping out.

Martin
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