Student Engagement Reporting

Thank you for your help with this survey.

Here at Royal Holloway we are thinking about undertaking reporting on our students engagement with us as an institution. Student engagement monitoring is considered to be reporting on how students interact with their institution - for example, information about their attendance, their use of the library, their interaction with a virtual learning environment (VLE) and other services the institution may offer. Some institutions gather information about these activities and create a score for each type of interaction. By combining these scores in a particular way, they can show reports to students that measure their own engagement as an individual and the engagement of their peer groups.

We would be very interested in finding out more about what your institution does in this area, or whether you have any plans to introduce this in the future. Thank you.

* 1. What is the name of your institution?

* 2. What is your job title?

* 3. If you are happy to be contacted for more details or you would like to get a copy of the results of this survey, please enter your name and email address below:

Name:

Email Address:

* 4. Do you have a student engagement report or dashboard in current use within your institution? (See above for more on what student engagement reporting is.)

Yes

Not yet but we have plans to introduce one

* 5. What technical solution did you use to develop this dashboard/report? (Please select all that apply)

In-house development using existing software

Purchased software specifically for this purpose

Other (please specify)

* 6. If you purchased software would you be happy to be contacted for further information?

Yes

If Yes, please enter your email address here

* 7. Who can use your student engagement dashboard/report? (Please select all that apply)

Academic staff

Students

Administrative staff within departments

Administrative staff within central teams

Library staff

Other staff (please specify)

* 8. If students cannot see the dashboard/report, do you have plans to allow them to do so in future?

Yes

Maybe

Please note any comments here:

* 9. One of the biggest difficulties with student engagement monitoring is bringing together data sources from across the institution. Do you do any of the following to help with this issue? (Please select all that apply)

We have a data warehouse (or have one in development)

We use a software tool to bring data together on an ad hoc basis (e.g. Qlikview, Alteryx, Tableau)

The software we purchased to create the report/dashboard also brings together the data for us

We have a Data Management policy (or one is being written)

We have a Data Management Committee (e.g. Data Quality Committee, Data Management Steering Group, Master Data Management Group etc) or one will be set up soon

We have made use of the Higher Education Data and Information Improvement Programme (HEDIIP) Data Capability Toolkit or intend to do so

If you have other things that you do to help bring data together, please enter them here:

* 10. Another challenge in this area is meeting the needs of different stakeholders (e.g. academic, administrative and welfare staff). Have you used any of the following approaches to help with this? (Please select all that apply)

Gathered requirements from all users and then prioritised them

Created multiple dashboards for different user groups

Created a sign-off process whereby functionality can be included or excluded (e.g. by using a dashboard or data owner)

If you have used other methods to help manage stakeholder requirements please record them here: