Enabling student attainment and success is the fundamental premise underpinning the work of any higher education institution. Using student engagement as a powerful proxy for progression, StREAM supports students to reach their full potential and achieve successful outcomes by identifying when they are at risk of not continuing with their academic studies and facilitating the provision of appropriate and timely support.
Learning behaviours are influenced by multiple factors and are therefore largely unique to the individual. The StREAM dashboard visualises individual engagement behaviours, providing actionable insights to students and educators that can be leveraged to increase the potential for successful student outcomes.
Staff responsible for student success can quickly identify students with engagement behaviours that indicate that they may be disengaging from their studies, are a possible withdrawal risk and may benefit from an early intervention.
Knowing which student need support on a real-time basis means staff can free up time to meet with those students rather than trying to correlate data from multiple systems first.
As adult learners, students are ultimately responsible for their own academic success. Insights from StREAM provide students with individual and cohort comparison information that track their progress, inform their future engagement behaviours and help achieve a healthy study-work-life balance.
StREAM supports students to develop positive engagement behaviours that deepen learning, strengthen understanding and enable academic challenge. Where expert advice is required, the in-built signposting functionality in StREAM can be configured to your institutional requirements, making it simple for students to easily access the right information at a time and place to suit.
StREAM enables more proactive forms of outreach from the university in situations where direct contact is more appropriate. Our Interactions functionality supports email referrals to university teams who can take the initiative to reach out to students and help prevent an issue becoming a crisis.
StREAM’s approach to managing student interactions keeps all relevant parties informed of any developments or activities designed to support student retention. In this way, a more holistic picture of student engagement and any associated support activity is available to all those involved in student support – including the student.
The interventions life cycle in StREAM ensures that agreed actions are carried through to completion rather than forgotten about as time progresses. The in-built reminder functionality helps educators keep track of their responsibilities for individual students to initiate follow-up activity after an agreed timeframe.
Cohort comparison analysis within StREAM enables educators to better understand engagement behaviours at cohort level, enabling comparisons between cohorts and supporting reporting against key institutional metrics. The analysis can also inform curriculum design, development and delivery. From a resourcing perspective, insight reporting enables identification of demands on limited resources, enabling more nuanced resource deployment and informing proactive outreach campaigns.
Our highly configurable platform ensures that you can use StREAM to support and strengthen student support processes. Alternatively, StREAM may act as a disrupter, initiating more streamlined and innovative approaches to student support.
To find out more about how StREAM can help you understand what engagement looks like for your institution and support your retention strategies, visit our website or book a demonstration today.
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