Proving Beacon is solely responsible for the retention of a student is not currently possible because there are too many different retention efforts simultaneously occurring on campus for Beacon to take credit for every student who returns the following year.
However, we do provide our Executive and Administrator level roles three reporting tools:
- predict retention and academic success rates in first-year population
- track advisors interactions with students
- assess their implementation and usage of Beacon
Non-Cognitives Report
This report shows the results of the Student Strengths Inventory (SSI) and predicts the probability of Retention and Academic Success of the entire first-year student population. Filtering is available on most standard and custom demographic points to fuel discovery of at-risk populations.
Many campuses use this report to identify and target areas where extra resources and programs may be needed to help structure campus-wide retention efforts.
There are three charts on the non-cognitives report:
- Liklihood of Retention: the probability that the student will return to the institution for their second year.
- Liklihood of Academic Success: the probability that the student will complete their first year with at least a 2.0 overall GPA based on a 4.0 scale.
- Factor Distribution: the percentage of students that fall into the Low, Moderate, and High levels of each factor.
Notation Report
This report allows Executives and Administrators to track and review trends in the notations created by the Success Network.
This report can help Administrators with resource allocation, discovering where, and from whom, students are seeking information, and tracking which members are contributing most/least to the Beacon community.
There are three charts on the Notation Report:
- Frequency: How many notifications are created each day
- Categories: By default, shows Top 10 Most Active Categories
- Success Network Members: By default, shows Top 10 Most Active Authors
This report can be filtered by notation type, time frame, category, or author.
If you filter by category or author, a link will appear to download an .csv file containing the details of all notations written in that category or by that author.
Metrics (System Usage) Report
This report assesses the current implementation of Beacon and identifies areas where it could be more working more efficiently.
It is broken down into three sections:
- Notation & Activity: Dive deeper into how quickly Alerts are being lowered and which students are receiving the most attention.
- Connections: Overview of the relationships between advisors and advisees
- Permissions: Breakdown of each role and easy access to a filtered list
Statistics in blue link directly to their settings area for easy management. If a campus has not implemented the feature set associated with a metric, those statistics will display as disabled with information about how to implement the missing feature.
