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Starfish: Complete a Progress Survey

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ARTICLE INTENDED FOR:
Faculty and Staff users of Starfish

 

INTRODUCTION:
Starfish early progress report surveys are administered at critical periods during a semester to help instructors alert each student's larger support network (including academic advisers, retention specialists and others) to the student's progress in a course. In most instances, this is the only insight others have into your class.

 

Progress report surveys package your course roster with select Flags and Kudos relevant at that point in the semester. The progress survey is one of three Starfish methods instructors can use to to provide feedback about students and be in compliance with Faculty Senate policy. All of the possible alerts and their associated messages are on the Starfish Info website.

 

Even if you teach a large course or have no grades to report yet, you still have access to vital student information that should be shared via Starfish.

 

Some early data points to look for include:

 

If similar concerns are registered by multiple instructors, this could signal larger problems about a student’s academic performance or even, in extreme cases, that a student is missing or in crisis.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Go to your Starfish Homepage (Go to starfish.psu.edu and click the “Log in to Starfish” button to get to your Starfish Homepage).

 

2. Select the Outstanding Progress Survey link on your Starfish Home page to go directly to the Progress Surveys tab in the Students section.

https://pennstate.service-now.com/sys_attachment.do?sys_id=da2a413e1bbb9c5813b599ba234bcbd5

NOTE: The Progress Surveys tab is only visible when there are active surveys.

 

Opening a progress report survey will provide the following:

 

3. Select the checkbox associated with the student and the feedback you would like to deliver.

4. To add comments, click the comments icon that is displayed after you check a box.

The comments you add will be included in the messages sent to the student and others in the student’s support network.

 

Your entries are automatically saved, so you may stop and return to the survey later.

 

6. When you are completely done with the survey, click Submit. *NOTE: This cannot be undone. Starfish will prompt you to confirm.

Once you click Submit, Starfish starts generating emails to students, their assigned advisers, and creating a tracking item in each student's Starfish folder. This can take some time to completely process.

 

If you use a different Starfish option to provide feedback to students, you submit the survey without selecting any of the check boxes. This will stop reminder emails from being sent to you.

 

*NOTE: If the Progress Survey was submitted prematurely, the only option is to 'raise Flags or Kudos' manually, or use the Zoom In feature in Starfish if Canvas Grades are setup. See links below.

 

LINKS: