The “real-time” learning analytics platform named Elements of Success (EoS) developed by UI faculty and the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology is now available for UI faculty and students to use.

This platform helps students to monitor their own involvement in a course and provides real-time feedback on this effort in a visual format. The platform helps students to be more involved and more responsible by encouraging them to ask themselves about their class performance and how they might improve. In other words, it moves this responsibility, in part, from the instructor to the student, which is one of the initial steps in becoming a successful student.

Students, especially those new to the university, may not have learned yet how to monitor and improve their own learning. This tool helps students to build the resilience and self-sufficiency needed for academic success.

I would like to encourage you to consider trying this platform, especially in larger lecture courses where you use frequent assessment strategies, such as weekly homework, quizzes, and other activities, and for any course where students may have serious questions about their final grades, especially if a curve is used.

If you are interested in learning more about this tool, please consider attending this informational workshop about the Elements of Success on Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.  Students who have used the tool will add to the discussion.

Register at this link: https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/events/supporting-your-students%E2%80%99-academic-resilience

Thank you.