Office of Online Learning
Office of Online Learning
Dropout detective is a new tool inside Canvas that helps identify “at risk” students. This robust tool can be used by administrators, advisors, and instructors to help increase student retention.
The program scans Canvas and reviews grades, missing assignments, last date of attendance and other factors that may indicate a student is at risk.
A dashboard is updated each night with updated data and applies an algorithm to display risk index that draw attention to at-risk students.
Administrators, advisors, and instructors can easily click through data to get a closer look at the issues.
You should see“Dropout Detective” on the left course navigation menu. Click on this. You are now in the Dropout Detective application on Canvas.
You will see a risk index of all students that are in the course.
You can also toggle between high, medium, and low risk categories to only show students in that list.
You can search this list with the last name or student ID.
Click on the name of the student to get additional information about the students' grades, number of zeros, missing assignments, last access, and late submissions.
You can click on the data hyperlinks to explore more about it in the course.
Dropout Detective 101 for USM Faculty
Dropout Detective Training for USM Faculty
Passcode: vdq#u10i
To get to the Dropout Detective section in Canvas you will need to:
You will see a risk index of all students that are taking courses within your College/Department.
You can also toggle between high, medium, and low risk categories to only show students in that list.
You can Search this list with last name or student ID.
Click on the name of the student to get additional information about the students’ course enrollments, grades, number of zeros, missing assignments, last access, and late submissions.
You can click on the data hyperlinks to explore more about it in the course.
In some cases, dashboards are setup for groups of students. If you are a part of dashboard group you can toggle to that dashboard by clicking on the dropdown arrow beside “all students”
If you would like to view a recording of Dropout Admin training, you can use the following link and passcode.
Dropout Detective training for Administrators
Passcode: ycC5!#vU