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No Show and Grade Check Surveys

There are 2 types of surveys instructors will be asked to complete each term: No Show and Grade Check. 

No Show & Grade Check Survey Dates

No Show Survey and Grade Check timelines for Academic Year 2025 to 2026. For each term including Fall 2025, Spring 2026, and Summer 2026, it lists survey open dates, survey close dates, and the 海角论坛 Central drop or undergraduate withdrawal deadline. The No Show Survey applies to 16 week and 8 week sessions during fall and spring, and 5 week and 8 week sessions during summer. Grade Checks for 16 week undergraduate courses occur at Week 5 and Week 10, with corresponding open and close dates and withdrawal deadlines.

Grade Check Survey 

Grade Check Surveys enable instructors to provide feedback for several students at once at key points in the term. Each survey is a collection of tracking items (Flags, Kudos, To-Dos, and Referrals) that instructors can select and comment on for students in each of their course sections.

No Show Survey

Federal regulations require instructors to confirm student attendance/participation in courses in order to meet eligibility rules for federal financial aid.  During the first 1-3 weeks (depending on term and session), students should demonstrate attendance/participation in class or be marked/flagged as not attending.  Students that still have active non-attendance flags on a designated day each term will be dropped from the flagged course.  Flagged students will be notified 2 times prior to being dropped; the first time when the instructor marks the student as not attending and when a 2nd flag is added to the students account requesting the student take immediate action by contacting their professor due to imminent danger of being dropped. 

Students are considered to have attended or participated in the course if they have demonstrated one of the following acceptable academically related activities:

  • Physically attending a class with direct interaction
  • Submitting an academic assignment
  • Taking an exam, interactive tutorial, or computer-based instruction
  • Attending a school-assigned study group
  • Participating in online discussion about academic matters
  • Initiating contact with a faculty member to ask about subject studied

Completing a Survey

  • Log into Connect
  • Surveys that are available are displayed near the top of the home page. Click on the Outstanding Progress Surveys title, circled below. If there are multiple surveys, there will be the word 'more' to the right of the title of the first survey. Click on the 'more' dropdown and all your courses with an attendance survey will be listed. You must click on each course survey to fill it out.

  • For No Show Surveys:
    • Course information will be at the top of the screen
      • Click the drop down arrow to switch between course rosters
  • Students will be listed down the left side of the screen
  • If all students are attending/participating, click Submit
  • If a student has not been attending/participating, check the box "Student has never attended class: Generates notification from you to student" next to the students name. 
    • Check all students that have not been attending BEFORE clicking Submit.  Submit will finalize the No Show Survey for that term session.

  • For Grade Check surveys:
    • Course information will be at the top of the screen
      • Click the drop down arrow to switch between course rosters

Resolving the 'No Show Student' Flag

PDF Instructions Here

Students marked as not attending that begin attending class or have contacted the instructor and should no longer be dropped OR a tracking item that is completed or resolved should be cleared.

  • Log into Connect
  • Select Students from the dropdown choices.

 

  • Select the Tracking tab, circled in red below. All students you have set a flag for will be listed you can scroll down the list or do a search by name to find the correct student
  • When you find the correct student, click on the flag symbol beside the tracking item you which to close. A pop-up box will appear listing the details about the flag. Click on the "Clear" tab.

  • A comment box will appear, add comment and click Submit.

Tracking Item Guidelines

海角论坛 Connect contains features, such as surveys, flags, kudos, and referrals, and to-dos that allow Course Instructors, Academic Advisors, Success Coaches, and support staff to work together to support students to be successful.

This graphic provides recommendations for utilization of the various tracking items in a 16-week session.

海角论坛 Connect tracking items and recommended timing in a 16 week undergraduate course: surveys in the first few weeks, kudos in weeks 1 to 4, 8, 11, and 15, flags including instructor concern in weeks 2 to 15, action required in weeks 3 to 4, 7 to 8, and 11 to 12, immediate response required only for severe urgent situations such as homelessness, serious illness or injury, death, hospitalization, divorce, law enforcement involvement, or major financial hardship, and referrals used as needed throughout the semester.

*Dates correspond to 海角论坛 refund and withdraw dates for 16-week undergraduate sessions.

Click the Kudos or Flags heading to learn learn more about guidelines for expectations of use and response for each tracking item type for Course Instructors.

KUDOs are used to reinforce good academic behavior or to recognize students for achievement.  

KUDOs

Recommended Timing: Anytime is an appropriate time to reinforce good academic behavior or recognize a student

Notification

  • Comments are included in notification
  • Appears in Student Dashboard
  • Student receives email notification

Response Plan

  • Tracking items are reviewed in preparation for student appointments.
  • Closed by Connect Administrator at the end of the term.

KUDOs available for use

General

  • Excellent work
  • Keep up the Good Work
  • Outstanding Contribution in Class Today
  • Seeing Improvement

Survey-Grade Check

  • SEMESTER START FEEDBACK: Excellent Work

FLAGs are designed to bring attention to students who may need additional support to be successful. When raising this flag type be sure to include detailed comments about what specific action is need for the student to improve and include any associated deadlines.  Invite the student to schedule an appointment or come to office hours and provide the information needed for them to follow through with that request.

FLAGs provide support and motivation for students to change their academic behavior early to increase the likeliness to achieve success and are classified by level of concern.

Low/Early-Instructor Feedback and Surveys

Medium-ACTION REQUIRED

High-ATTENTION! IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUESTED