Drive Student Experience With Instant FeedbackMobile App! LTI Web Widget ! Dashboard! Manager App! Text Analytics Reports! • High response rates • Authentic and representative

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Drive Student Experience With Instant Feedback


DropThought is an end-to-end SaaS solution for managing student academic experience


Mobile App LTI Web Widget

Students Give Feedback in-the-moment

1 Instructors

Intervene/Reply/Adapt based on real-time comments

Dashboard Manager App

2 Relevant Stakeholders

Track trends

Text Analytics Reports

3


Students Give Feedback in-the-moment

Instructors Intervene/Reply/Adapt

based on real-time comments

Relevant Stakeholders Track trends

Mobile App LTI Web Widget Dashboard Manager App Text Analytics Reports

•  High response rates •  Authentic and representative •  More actionable than ratings •  More diversity of student voice

•  Customized alerts and search •  Trend View for patterns •  Feed View for live classroom •  Push questions to mobile apps

Features

•  Hear from all your students, not just your best or angry students

•  Catch misconceptions instantly •  Optimize content and activities

Benefits

•  Align feedback to standards like Quality Matters

•  See patterns of comments •  Act on specifics at scale •  Share practices across

classes

•  Anonymous •  Real-time •  Open-ended •  Top-of-mind


Student Feedback Today

DropThought is superior to today’s student feedback

End of Course Surveys

Anonymous

Non-specific

Too late for intervention

Email, Discussion Boards, Face-to-Face, etc.

Filtered/ Public

Specific/Granular

Continuous

Instant

Anonymous

Assignment/activity specific

Real-time, continuous

Can be responded to

“Require” feedback through LTI

In class, online, or practicum


•  Tovar, E. (n.d.). Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges. from http://www.academia.edu/1876305/Student_Engagement_and_Institutional_Graduation_Rates_Identifying_High-Impact_Educational_Practices_for_Community_Colleges

•  Schreiner, L. A. (2009). Linking student satisfaction and retention. Research Study: Azusa Pacific University. Retrieved from https://www.faculty.uwstout.edu/admin/provost/upload/LinkingStudentSatis0809.pdf

DropThought Instant Feedback

Student Satisfaction & Engagement

Outcomes (learning, persistence, etc.)

DropThought drives engagement and satisfaction, which are promising drivers of student success

“students whose satisfaction scores…are only one point higher than their peers have an 80 percent better chance of persisting…it is the most important factor” (Schreiner, 2009).

“three of the five student engagement benchmarks were correlated to a statistically significant degree with IPEDS graduation rates for the institutions participating in this study” (Tovar, n.d.).


*Survey sent to190 Students across 7 classes that used DropThought for Winter Semester 2014 at a university in the western USA. Survey had a 15% response rate. Research IRB approved.

97%

Agreed

Disagreed

DropThought was a useful way for me to let my instructor know how I felt about my learning.

DropThought did not interfere with my learning.

It did not bother me having to tell DropThought how I feel about my learning experience.

Students found DropThought to be helpful

93%

93%


1: Focus group on Feb 5, 2014 from instructors using DropThought

Instructors found DropThought to be unique and valuable

“I think DropThought is very useful, it allows students to offer very candid and uninhibited feedback…but it is still two-way. Other systems are only one-way.”

“The precise level of detail of feedback on specific assignments and class periods is the real value for me as the instructor.”

“We…like the ratings all through the course, and not just course as a whole but on individual assignments…Students have enjoyed being able to say what they like or don’t…I now hear things [from the students] I normally wouldn’t as a professor…”


DropThought Product Overview


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1. Open app 2. Select course 3. Leave feedback 4. Rate experience

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Students leave instant feedback on their mobile devices about general aspects of the course in 4 easy steps:

Capture anytime/anywhere student feedback about the course experience generally


Students launch the Instant Feedback web widget from an assignment link in the LMS

Launched from an assignment

reflection link in syllabus

Participation points

recorded upon submission of

feedback

Feedback remains anonymous but can

be responded to

Capture student feedback per assignment and activity for the duration of the course


Review and respond when needed by mobile

Analyze patterns in feedback with the DropThought Dashboard

Feedback organized by assignment

Sort feedback by sentiment level

and custom searches

Instructors review and manage student feedback by web or mobile in real time…


Text Analytics: Gain immediately actionable insights on dynamic patterns and trends of interest


Thank You!

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Drive Student Experience With Instant FeedbackMobile App! LTI Web Widget ! Dashboard! Manager App! Text Analytics Reports! • High response rates • Authentic and representative