Thank you @kona - this is really useful! We hope to look at a demo, but out of interest can you view a risk profile for a student across all their courses, or is it just at individual course level?
@natalie_norton1 , as an Admin I can see a risk profile for a student across all their courses. So the ranking I see is the ranking by student (but for all the courses the student is enrolled in). The individual course view is just for Instructors.
Thank you @kona for providing this helpful information on Dropout Detective. I have a question about "Latest Submission." Does this detect only if a student submitted something to a Canvas "assignment" or does it also indicate if a student took a graded quiz or posted to a graded discussion? When we report LDA (Last Date of Attendance), we need to look at grade assignments, discussions, and quizzes. If the Dropout Detective tool took all these types of assignments into consideration, then this would indeed be a nifty tool for faculty to quickly and easily determine LDA.
@dnoud , I’m on my phone so I can’t double check, but there might be some updated features since I posted this. They are always working to make Dropout Detective even better!
Thanks Kona. No specific questions at this stage, but Chris and his team have been super helpful in enabling me to understand how Dropout Detective works.
Thanks for this information. My college uses Dropout Detective, but it's not working in one of my courses. The error message says, "We're sorry! This course is not supported by Dropout Detective™. The course is being filtered out due to the course filter." Do you know what "the course filter" is? Is that something I (as instructor) set and can fix myself, or is it something the IT department at my college sets? If anyone knows and can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it!
You would need to reach out to your local Canvas admin. It's likely not something that you could fix on your own.
For our institution, Dropout Detective looks at the SIS Course ID and matches it against a pattern that we gave AspireEDU when we set up Dropout Detective. If the ID doesn't match the pattern, then the course is not monitored. For us, we wanted all online courses to be monitored but none of the face-to-face courses and the SIS ID had that information encoded into it.
That pattern mismatch sounds like what you might be encountering, but your local Canvas admin (or possibly IT department depending on how things are organized) should be able to answer definitively.
Kona Jones is a Professor of Psychology and Statistics at Galen College of Nursing. Her passion is student success and, more specifically, assessing how different initiatives can improve online student retention. Kona was technical editor of the 2022 Canvas for Dummies book and is a Canvas Advocate, contributing extensively in the online Canvas Community and beyond. She has a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology Leadership, M.S. degrees in Quantitative and Cognitive Psychology, and Undergraduate B.S. degrees in Biology, Psychology, & History.
