The Early Warning The Early Warning SystemSystem

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What is the Early Warning What is the Early Warning System?System?It is a tool that can communicate

performance concerns or achievement to students and their learning partners

It communicates the concerns or achievement based on rules or criteria that the instructor sets.

Why use it?Why use it?

It helps instructors to identify students with low or high grades, absences and late submission of work.

It helps to maximize student retention and success.

How does it work?How does it work?

Set the warning

rules

Run status checks

Notify users

The Warning Rules for your The Warning Rules for your purposespurposes

Receiving a PA or FA (from the attendance reporting requested by Enrollment Services in SPIRIT Online)

Accumulating 3 or more absences (at any point in the semester)

Receiving less than a ‘C’ in any Quiz/Test/Exam/Mid-Term/Final

(All of these rules are the same as applying a grade rule)

Creating the RulesCreating the Rules

Click on Early Warning System under the Assessment box in the Control Panel.

Select the ‘Grade Rule’

Complete all the information

Communicating with StudentsCommunicating with StudentsEarly Earning System is not constantly

running in the background and so you will need to regularly refresh to show the accurate results to trigger a warning.

Place a check mark to the left of the rule you wish to refresh

Then click on the ‘refresh’ icon in the toolbar

View the results and select the student you wish to send the notification to