A guide to using data for personal tutoring and pastoral support

Data is becoming increasingly important in helping universities accomplish their goal of supporting successful outcomes for all students.

In this guide, Dr Rachel Maxwell, Principal Advisor for StREAM, explores how student engagement analytics data helps to understand student engagement behaviours so that proactive outreach can be made to offer the most relevant advice, guidance, and specialised support needed to improve outcomes.

Expect to find:

StREAM use cases
Tips on using engagement analytics for pastoral support
Research findings
Best practice from the StREAM community

The guide includes a foreword from Dr David Grey, CEO at UK Advising and Tutoring:

‘If you are a personal tutor, the insights provided by a learning analytics system have much to offer in helping you to provide pastoral support to your students through prompting timely conversations that identify and enable you to address issues before they get out of hand. This short publication explores the features of learning analytics platforms which help us to spot those tell-tale changes in our students and their behaviours so that we can proactively reach out to them to offer advice, guidance, and specialised support to improve outcomes for them’.