Student support through early academic identification and intervention

 Starfish Overview  Accessing Starfish  Using Starfish ◦ Communication Items & Progress Reports ◦ Finding Students in Starfish

 Starfish is a retention software tool, embedded in Black Board, that allows students, instructors, and campus service providers to easily connect and communicate with one another. ◦ “Student Success Network”  Specific to each student  Starfish allows Success Network members to easily: ◦ Report student academic progress ◦ Track/monitor student progress ◦ Refer students to campus services ◦ Schedule appointments online

 Inform students of their course progress.  Encourage students to use programs like tutoring and supplemental instruction.  Support staff academic intervention through student early alert identification.

A quick walkthrough

 To access Starfish you must first sign in to Blackboard  bb9.tamucc.edu bb9.tamucc.edu ◦ Click “Log Into Blackboard Learn”  Use your TAMUCC Credentials

 To access Starfish, simply click the “Starfish” link in the tools menu on the left side of your Blackboard screen CLICK HERE

 Starfish will prompt you to set up your profile for students  This process will include: ◦ Setting Office Hours To skip, select Close

Starfish Dashboard can be used to :  Access Starfish Progress Reports (course hyperlink below System Announcement)  Add Office Hours  Record Attendance

Understanding and Raising Items in Starfish

 Starfish has four primary communication Items: ◦ Flags – course progress warnings or alerts ◦ Referrals – student referrals to programs or services ◦ To-dos – student reminders ◦ Kudos – commendations for student effort/performance

 Communication items and notes submitted in Starfish (Flag, Referral, To-do, or Kudo) are simultaneously communicated to both the student and the students’ success network of advisors, mentors, and other support personnel.  Campus support personnel prioritize academic intervention outreach depending on the frequency and magnitude of feedback submitted for students in Starfish.

 Starfish progress reports are administered at critical periods during a semester to help track the overall progress of students enrolled in Developmental, Freshmen, and Sophomore level courses. ◦ Survey Period: approximately the 4 th and 8 th week of the long semester.

 Faculty teaching Developmental, Freshmen, and Sophomore level courses will receive a Starfish progress report invitation via .  The invitation includes: ◦ Instructions ◦ Survey Open & Close dates ◦ Progress Report Course List ◦ Link to Starfish’s Progress Survey video

 When administered, Starfish progress reports will be located as a course hyperlink at the top of your homepage  Simply open the link and follow the instructions provided.

 Opening a progress report will provide the following: ◦ Course Roster listed alphabetically ◦ Options to submit “No Feedback” for students. ◦ Options to submit Kudos, Flags, and To-dos for students. ◦ Options to include unique messages for students when submitting feedback.

 How to Complete a Progress Survey (link) How to Complete a Progress Survey (link)

 To Access your students, Select “Students”, and then “My Students from the drop down options. CLICK HERE

 Search students individually, or  Students can be filtered by: ◦ Course/section (Connection) ◦ Semester term Filter by Course Search for Student Filter by Term

 Filter students according to Section.

 Visit the CASA website:  Contact: ◦ Offices for Retention Support and Analytics ◦ Center for Academic Student Achievement (CASA) ◦ Glasscock Student Success Center 101A ◦ ◦ John Fortiscue -