Student Engagement and Contact Tracing
As part of the duty of care we have towards our students, as well as our legal obligations, it is necessary to track student engagement. MMS uses data from tools and module activities to pass engagement information to SITS (the main Registry Student database). The main sources of data are:
- Academic Alerts & Misconduct Warnings
- Coursework tool
- Group attendance
Academic Alerts and Misconduct Warnings
Academic Alerts and Misconduct Warnings indicate student engagement. Each type of alert or warning is given an engagement weight that is passed to SITS (the engagement weights are given in Table 1. The higher the engagement weight the more engagement the student has undertaken[1].
Table 1: Engagement Weights of Academic Alerts and Misconduct Warnings.
|
Purpose |
Alert type |
Engagement Weight |
|
Alert |
Checkpoint |
30 |
|
Alert |
Assessment (Failure to complete assessment) |
10 |
|
Alert |
Assessment (Late Submission) |
20 |
|
Alert |
Checkpoint |
40 |
|
Alert |
Engagement |
40 |
|
Alert |
Final |
0 |
|
Warning |
Aiding and Abetting |
90 |
|
Warning |
Coercion |
90 |
|
Warning |
Contract Cheating |
90 |
|
Warning |
False Citation |
90 |
|
Warning |
Falsification |
90 |
|
Warning |
Misconduct in Exams |
90 |
|
Warning |
Multiple Submission |
90 |
[1] Misconduct Warnings have a high engagement weight because the student has actively engaged, even if that action should not have been done.