CampusNexus for Improving Graduation Rates
April 02, 2019
CampusNexus for Improving Graduation Rates
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CampusNexus is the one-stop solution for student management at the high school and collegiate level. There are a lot of tools for teachers for managing content, curriculum, and student progress in classes. However, this is the only solution I've found that can provide the school three key things, which is what it is used for. The guidance department uses this tool as a tool for tracking all students. First and most important is overall academic achievement, student engagement and outcomes, and analytics and outputs from the data. This software is only used by counselors and administration in order to help structure students and track them from one grade through to the end of their school career. Teachers do not need access to this, nor do they have access to the input of content or information. This solves the problem of how to track students, their classes, graduation requirements, credits, academic progress, student retention, and transcripts. Mainstreaming data makes life for educators and students much easier.
- Particularly well, CampusNexus identifies at-risk students. In our school, and in any school, but in many city schools or schools with a lack of parent involvement or large populations, it is crucial to be able to identify students at risk of failing or struggling. This is something that is extremely effectively done here.
- An additional strength I see is the ability to track graduate requirements. This is easily shared with students, parents, and the rest of the administration, to track and assist in student growth.
- Academic records need to be shared and sent to colleges, parents and other high schools. Controlling academic records is a strength because it tallies the entire career of a student. Using this system helps to solidify communication.
- The campus interface that showcases the data is very bulky. A better format would be to lay it out with options for the user to select from a series of data points.
- Something done differently is that I would like to see a "dark mode" version. A lot of apps have dark or night mode, which is easier on the eyes and makes it better to use at night. In computer rooms it would also be an asset, because the room is often extremely bright in certain offices or classrooms.
- I would like for parents to have the ability to see more student information, similar to what counselors are given. By giving parents more transparency at the middle school or high school level it would increase responsibility.
- Positive. The cost is well worth the value of increasing the experience of students. Being able to retain students as a result of providing the necessary tools to evaluate their own educational progress is important.
- A Schoolwide objective is to increase graduation rates. In order to increase graduation rates, we need to decrease the amount of time students spend calculating their own credits and waiting on responses from academic advisors. This is an automated and fast and easy way to give the exact information that is needed. Increasing graduation is a byproduct of utilizing this platform.
- A downside of this would be the customer service of the actual CampusNexus team. Emails and phone calls are excessive in taking up time, which takes up time from other activities that people should be performing.
I have not come across other platforms that can do what CampusNexus provides. There are platforms such as Skedula for tracking grades. There are add-ins to websites such as MoodleRooms to provide curriculum and content management support. However, I have not found a platform that provides grades, curriculum, key functions for enrollment and tracking your own academic progress as well as analytical abilities. CampusNexus provides the output of data and results from a wide range of data sets. Tracking the data and being able to output it into charts and graphics for all educators, administration, and politicians can improve the culture of a school district. Providing all of this data can transform an entire educational institution.