Early Warning System (EWS) Guardian
The Early Warning System (EWS) is a system to your student(s) that are not preforming well. The system is based on four factors, attendance, discipline entries, current grades, and total credit. As students begin to hit these triggers a symbol will in the top blue line under your student’s name. If a student doesn’t have an indicator that student is doing well.
How it Works
The EWS will notify you that there is an issue with your student(s) by showing one of the indicators below.
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One trigger has activated |
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Two triggers have activated |
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Three triggers have activated |
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Four triggers have activated |
Early Warning System (EWS) Detail Page
Attendance
An attendance graph will appear showing the total number of periods for each class (including dropped classes).The graph reflects the number of periods and NOT number of classes. If a class is 2 periods long, it will be accounted as two periods. The graph is interactive. Hover the mouse over a bar and the total number of periods will display. (Figure 1) Clicking a bar will open the details of each class. (Figure 2)
Figure 1
Figure 2
Logs
A logs graph will show the total number of log entries by consequence. This graph is interactive. Hover the mouse over a bar and the total number of logs will display. (Figure 3) Clicking a bar will display additional information about the logs (Figure 4)
Figure 3
Figure 4
Failing Current Grades
This will show all the current classes that the student is failing. (Figure 5) This chart is interactive. Clicking a specific class will show a graph showing the student’s assignment scored against the class average. Hovering over any point will show the student’s score and the class average. (Figure 6)
Figure 5
Figure 6
Historical Grades
This will show a credit meter to visually indicate how the student is going according to credits. The bar will turn red if the student is behind and green if the student is on track. Below the bar will indicate how many credit the student has earned, and if the student is behind, it will display how far behind the student. (Figure 7)
Figure 7
Under the credit meter is a list of historical classes where credit was lost. The chart can be filtered by year to help focus any research being done. (Figure 8)
Figure 8
