Faculty
Faculty play an essential role in iAdvise. The student - faculty interaction is of utmost importance and working together with advisors leads to an interconnected network to help students succeed.
iAdvise has the capability for instructors to use the system for managing their courses and appointments with students should they choose to do so; however, the most important part of iAdvise's initial work with faculty is the alerting component centered in Early Alerts.
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iAdvise uses Starfish by Hobsons to maintain information on students and to provide an opportunity for intervention using a system of different types of flagging for students in courses, called iAlert. Once advising units are loaded into the system for day-to-day use over Fall 2019, faculty members can use iAlert to indicate that there is a challenge for a student through the system and no longer need to worry about identifying the student’s advisor and sending an email. In user flagging, an instructor can raise a flag on a student by clicking their name in iAdvise and entering a flag individually for each student about whom they are concerned.
- In user flagging, when there is an issue for a student and a faculty member wants to contact advising, it can be done through the “iAlert” system.
- A faculty member raises a flag of any number of types ranging from “Attendance Concerns” to “Missing Work” to “Personal Concerns.”
- Once a flag is raised, an advisor is notified and can take action with the student.
- Also, in most cases, a student is notified and can take action accordingly. (Some alerts do not notify the student directly.) Once acted upon, an advisor can close the loop with an instructor by letting them know that their alert has been addressed, and where appropriate to the concern, inform the faculty member of the results.
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We have recently developed a series of roles in iAdvise for faculty members that are not part of their instructor role or driven from a course context. These roles include:
- Directors of Undergraduate Studies
- Faculty Coordinators – this role is most often used for faculty members participating in grants that are geared for student success and bring them in contact with students that are not in their courses.
- Faculty Advisors – this role is designated by your college administration, but is generally used for faculty members serving in advising roles for undergraduate students.
There is information available about the access and activities for the DUS and faculty coordinator roles – download the quick guide here.
Please email iadvisehelp@uic.edu for information and to get access to these roles.