A shocking reality: 40% of first-time college students in the U.S. will not return to the same institution for their second year. See the attachment below for five easy-to-implement tips from First Year Experience and Retention and Curriculum expert, Vance Gray, PhD, that College Success/First Year Experience programs can utilize to support student engagement in ways that ultimately help improve student retention. ... View more

iClicker’s institutional solutions enhance and capture student engagement for better student outcomes. Attendance Tracking Course Engagement Retention Surveys Analytics & Insights Check out the attached flyer to learn more! ... View more

The University of Memphis is a public four-year research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. The institution serves over 22,000 students with one main campus in Memphis, Tennessee. Two administrators from the Student Academic Success department and seven instructors from various departments chose to participate in this study. View the attached case study to learn more. ... View more

Start how you want to finish. There are few courses more important to ensuring students develop the skills and habits to do well in colleges than First Year Experience and College Success. In this interactive webinar, participants will be introduced to easy-to-implement methods for First Year Experience and College Success courses to encourage and evaluate student engagement for better learning outcomes. From tracking attendance to gauging students' conceptual understanding, student engagement opportunities are endless, yet within reach with the ubiquity of mobile devices. The session will explore and demonstrate engagement, survey and analytics tools that enable community college faculty, course coordinators and administrators with pre-built teaching resources and class activities to get quickly and affordably get started using student engagement tools in College/Student Success courses.     Access the recording today! Watch Recording   Presented by:  Mandy Shaffer has over 17 years of experience in education with a focus on student success, engagement, and technology. She is the Director of Institutional Initiatives at Macmillan Learning. Mandy holds a Bachelors in Sociology and a Masters in Elementary Education from The Ohio State University. After teaching in the classroom, she turned her passion for teaching and learning to writing and editing textbooks, developing educational technologies, presenting and training on pedagogy/technology/retention platforms, and consulting with institutions on retention, student success, and engagement. An Ohio native, Mandy now calls Orlando, Florida home. ... View more

The administrators at the University of Memphis planned to use iClicker Insights to identify students with troubling attendance patterns so that they could attempt to intervene before the student fell too far behind in their course(s). They also planned to review iClicker attendance data at the end of the semester to identify student attendance patterns associated with poor class performance and develop a plan to proactively address in future semesters.  View the attached case study to learn more. ... View more

Join Macmillan's Learning Science & Insights team as they share new research and insights on attendance. In this webinar, Dr. Kara McWilliams, Vice President, Impact Research, will discuss the learning science behind the benefits of taking class attendance and what trends sophisticated data mining reveal that have guided the development of new attendance features in iClicker. Dr. McWilliams will also share experimental research conducted with instructors and partner institutions into how using iClicker to take attendance improves important student outcomes like engagement and course performance. Watch Recording ... View more

Leslie Hendrix, is an active learning guru. Join the discussion as she talks about engagement strategies and tools that are working in her courses–and how her students have responded to her active learning efforts. She’ll show you how easy it is to increase participation, confirm understanding, and measure student performance using iClicker's flexible active learning platform, iClicker Cloud.     Watch Recording ... View more

Introducing iClicker's Reef Attendance With iClicker's Reef application, taking accurate attendance is now as simple as clicking a button.   Instead of using codes that can be shared, iClicker’s new attendance solution uses geolocation technology that recognizes if students are within range of the classroom when they “check in.” No more cheating—or voting from dorm rooms!   Experienced user Dr. Michael Shapiro, Professor at the Georgia State University, and Kristina Treadway, iClicker Product Manager, showcase iClicker’s new attendance tool.   Watch Recording ... View more