You see who is at risk while there is still time to help.
For program managers, deans, and heads of student services. Every course Alma builds shows the whole cohort at once and any one student's progress, measured against the learning outcomes approved for the course, during the term.
- The cohort
- Everyone at once
- One student
- Any student's progress
- Measured against
- The approved learning outcomes
- When
- During the term
The course itself keeps the record, week by week.
Much of what a program learns about a cohort arrives with final grades, when nobody can act on it. In a course Alma builds, students spend most of each hour doing something: answering out loud, submitting a draft, taking a knowledge check. Each of those activities is tied to a learning outcome, so the record builds up during the term, outcome by outcome.
Four views of the cohort, and one of each student.
Who has been active this week
The entire cohort at once, and each student within it.
Who is flagged at risk
A list, so someone can step in during the term.
Where in the course students stop
The module and the activity where work drops off.
Attainment by learning outcome
How the cohort stands against each learning outcome approved for the course.
Any one student's progress
Faculty and student services can open it before they talk to the student.
Every activity is tied to a learning outcome when the course is designed.
Your faculty and learning designers approve that link before anything is produced.
It says which outcome a cohort is behind on
What students do in each activity counts toward the outcome that activity was built for.
It says where students stop
Each activity has a place in the sequence, so a drop in activity points to one module and one activity in it.
It shows where to look when you revise
A revision to a course Alma built takes days, and your faculty approve it before students see it.
The analytics come with the course. There is no separate project.
Learning analytics are part of every course Alma builds, and of the activities we add to a course you already run.
Step 1
Your faculty approve the design
It maps each activity to one of the learning outcomes already approved for the course.
Step 2
Students take the course
As they work, the cohort view and each student's progress fill in, and your people read them during the term.
Step 3
You decide what to change
After a term, the places where students stopped and the outcomes the cohort was behind on go into the next revision.
One cohort, partway through a term.
An illustration of what each person sees.
The program manager opens the cohort
Most students were active this week. A short list is flagged at risk, and work drops off at a case study in one module.
Attainment points to one learning outcome
The cohort is on track for most outcomes and behind on the one that case study was built for.
The instructor opens one flagged student
The student finished the lecture and the reading, then stopped before the spoken practice. The instructor and student services know where to start.
The module is revised after the term
The case study is the first thing your faculty look at.
Three things to know before you book a demo.
Does this promise better retention?
No. The analytics show who is flagged at risk and where students stop, while the term is still running. Stepping in is the work of your faculty and student services.
What happens to students' work?
It stays on Alma's platform and is never used to train a model. Only your own staff and the few Alma people building your course can see it. We go through the details with your security team.
Who is this not for?
A team looking for one analytics system across every course at the institution. These views cover the courses Alma builds and the activities we add to a course you already run.
Where the scores come from, and how the data is handled.
Security
Where your material and your students' work are held, who can see them, and for how long.
See security
Course refresh & redesign
When the course is already online and you want practice and analytics added.
See adding AI
Blended & faculty-led courses
When an instructor teaches live and wants to see the class before each session.
See faculty-led courses
Grading and feedback
How the scores behind attainment are produced, and who confirms them.
See grading
Bring a course you want to follow during the term.
We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide. Book a demo and we will walk through what your program managers, faculty, and student services would each see.