Student Attendance and Engagement Ron Austin & Nicki Schiessel Harvey Birmingham City University

The project - now Implications of engagement for success. Understand correlations between student attendance and student Moodle engagement, and module outcomes Develop intelligence from our (often fragmented) data on students and use this to support positive behaviour

The project – then Arose from staff frustrations at having no easy access to information on student engagement. Systems did not join up to provide useful information Made monitoring student progress challenging

The project – getting started. Finding advocates, getting buy-in to develop a dashboard. Understanding power structures and departmental agendas Gatecrashing a lot of other project meetings! Speaking with JISC

Working out what we needed – and what we could realistically collate

The project – proof of concept Agile approach to demonstrate what was possible & gain buy in Small IT team, academic representatives Warehousing of class attendance, gate access, Moodle data Testing by course staff

The project – early uptake Some programme and module leads started using – constant feedback loop. Management buy-in AND wider institution engagement important Nearly died once initial funding ended – then new VCO team backing

The project – next steps Deep dive working with faculty SSA (Student Success Advisors) Targeting students with low/poor attendance Looking at modules and programmes where there is a trend in low attendance to understand the ‘whys’ Looking to improve attendance and attainment.

CMP6046 Attendance to Attainment and grades

CMP6046 Moodle interactions to Grades

Deep Dive The following is a brief overview on the deep dive for student attendance. The SSA called and met with a number of students to see why they where not attending. Small targeted number of students – Looking for feedback on the issues of no attendance

Deep Dive

Deep Dive

Next Steps Within the School all Programme Leaders will be given access to the dashboard system and will be implementing weekly calls to students with low attendance. Wider pilot study on impact this close monitoring will have Wider debate on what is attendance with study material being available on-line via Moodle

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