Student Engagement Portal: Technical Report

Jennings, Tegan (2022) Student Engagement Portal: Technical Report. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

This technical report outlines the development of my final year project, Student Engagement portal, with the main focus on project specifications, requirements and implementation.

This report highlights the importance of tracking student engagement and retention from learning platforms in order to identify students who are at risk of failing behind early on. Student engagement is a huge problem in both public and private universities, when the student engagement drops, the student retention also drops. There are three main steps to prevent low engagement and retention, they are described as: (Anon., 2016)

• Early Identification
• Early Intervention
• Continuous improvement

The student engagement portal centres around these steps in order to best support at risk students. At risk students can be identified at the glance using the Student Engagement Dashboard. Users can intervene if they identify an at-risk student. They can intervene by emailing students through the Portal. Lecturers can improve activities to keep students engaged whilst adapting to the engagement.

The student engagement portal will be very useful and important especially as online learning becomes more popular. The student engagement portal allows for authorised users to easily understand the student engagement for their module in a glance, they can also email students who are falling behind and not completing content.

The student engagement portal allows for authorised users to easily understand the student engagement for their module in a glance, they can also email students who are falling behind and not completing content. This works by allowing users to upload an excel file. Once the excel is uploaded, the information from the excel can be seen on a unique page created. On this unique dashboard page, users will see graphs and charts of the data from the excel. Users will also see a table where they can email students who are falling behind.

The Student Engagement Portal also has an admin portal where reports, modules and courses can be customised as well as users’ information.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Computer software
Divisions:	School of Computing > Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing
Depositing User:	Clara Chan
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2022 09:17
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2022 09:17
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/5736

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