Leveraging student data to support academic innovation SESSION 6642 Monday, July 10, 2017

Your presenter Lisa Emery Associate Registrar Faculty & Staff Services University of Michigan Lisa joined the Registrar’s Office in 2014, after working in the Information & Technology Services department for twelve years as the manager of the student administration system. In her current role, she oversees curriculum, scheduling, degree audit, tuition assessment, examinations, and teaching evaluations. She is also currently working on a PhD in Educational Leadership.

Presentation overview Academic Innovation Initiative @ UMich Academic Reporting Tools (ART) Beyond Grades: Future of the Transcript

Academic innovation

Academic Reporting Toolkit

Steering committee 18 members offer representation across 5 colleges Student Life Office of the Registrar Center for Research on Learning & Teaching Central Student Government Information Technology Services

https://art.ai.umich.edu/

Course evaluation data 8 institution-wide questions added Fall 2016

Data sources Institutional Data Warehouse Local Data Warehouse Schedule of Classes API Student Records CourseProfile Digital Innovation Greenhouse Warehouse Human Resources ART Database InstructorInfo Instructional Activity LDAP Directory API Institutional Data Warehouse Local Data Warehouse Institutional APIs Academic Reporting Tools

Potential next steps Enhance the Instructor Profiles “Major” profile cards Add Degree Audit data Add grade distributions Administrator view with more demographic data

Beyond Grades: The Transcript of the future

What are grades measuring? Talent Development? Effort? Ability to properly advise/place students?

Who uses the transcript? Students Graduate Admissions Employers Researchers

2016-2017 campus Initiatives Innovation Hour: The Transcript of the Future (October 2016) The Transcript of the Future Registrar Summit (December 2016) Student Design Jam (March 2017) Developer Prototypes

http://dl. acm. org/citation. cfm http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3027418&CFID=956706228&CFTOKEN=69264334

Potential Next steps Collect student feedback on the prototypes Employer and Graduate Admissions feedback Another student design jam Add prototypes to Academic Report Tools Enhance the official transcript with hyperlinks to dissertations

Questions?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gus Evrard, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Amy Homkes-Hayes, Lead Innovation Advocate Ben Koester, Learning Analytics Research Specialist Tim McKay, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Paul Robinson, Associate Vice Provost & University Registrar Chris Teplovs, Lead Software Developer