At Teesside University, we are committed to building the digital confidence and fluency in staff and working with staff to help improve their understanding of our learning systems and utilizing these in meaningful and impactful ways to enhance the learning experiences of our students.
StREAM is the University’s learner analytics platform. The use of learner analytics is designed to support all our students in maximising their chances of success and realising their potential. SLAR will be hosting a series of monthly institution-wide sessions on StREAM aimed at teaching staff to will help you understand the platform and the affordances of learner analytics for timely student support. We will cover:
- Using real time data – StREAM takes data from a wide range of digital touch points, which together represents participation in academic learning.
- Understanding the engagement algorithm – An algorithm is applied to our data, tailored to reflect how engagement is represented at Teesside, which calculates an overall “engagement score” indicator for each student.
- Interpreting the engagement score – A simple measure of engagement for easy-to-understand visualisation and interpretation of data.
- Exploring the holistic view – Taking the engagement information en-masse, StREAM also provides a holistic view of how students are engaging at School and course level
These sessions titled ‘Using Learner Analytics impactfully for student support via StREAM’ are bookable from our SLAR CPD offer catalogue: https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/events/category/booking-information/
In the meantime, user guides, and associated materials around the Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, Information Governance and guidance from SLS can be found here: Student Learning & Academic Registry – Learner Analytics (tees.ac.uk)
In addition to these monthly sessions, we encourage and invite you to reach out to us for one-to-one or small group coaching and support on learning design through digital solutions. Whether you are new to Teesside University and need to become more familiar with StREAM or other systems such as Blackboard, Turnitin, ReView or whether you are an experienced academic looking to amplify your course design and embed new approaches to digital teaching excellence into your modules and practices, please contact us via e-learning@tees.ac.uk so that we can support you. Our coaching support is personalised to your needs and can take place on MS Teams or face-to-face.