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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. CMP6046 Attendance to Attainment and grades

10. CMP6046 Moodle interactions to Grades

11. 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

12. Deep Dive

13. Deep Dive

14. 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

15. Thank you
Any Questions?