With 8 campuses in the UK, and 1 in Hong Kong, The University of Law (ULaw) is a specialist provider of legal and associated business, criminology and policing education. With an overall 5-star rating from QS in the World University Rankings, 5 stars in Teaching, Employability and Online Learning, and ranked first amongst English universities for teaching in the 2021 National Student Survey, this is a University that is making visible impacts on student learning and outcomes.
A key contributor to their success is how ULaw is using student engagement data to initiate, drive and embed improvements to learning, teaching and the provision of student support. The University use the StREAM student engagement analytics platform, provided by Solutionpath, to gather data on how students are participating in educationally purposeful activities and then use that data to generate insights about student behaviours. In turn, those insights are informing executive and management decision-making processes around the allocation and effectiveness of student support initiatives and the extent of use and adoption of StREAM.
Through a series of case studies, we will explore how ULaw are using student engagement data to drive strategic transformation agendas around student support, how they are supporting student engagement through investment in a team of Student Journey Advisers, and enabling academic staff to better coach and mentor their students to academic success.
This first case study looks specifically at how student engagement analytics is supporting strategic change through a simple use of intelligent reporting that takes student engagement data from within StREAM and transforms it into management level insights through use of another readily available data-reporting tool – Power BI.
