About The Student Success Course
This course empowers participants with essential skills to harness data effectively in shaping and enhancing library services. Through hands-on practice with data sets and relevant examples, participants will see how data can reveal the true impact of library services on student learning outcomes, brought to life through clear, compelling data visualizations.
Accessible through the Moodle learning management system, participants will create a Brickyard account to access the course and monitor their progress.
Detailed instructions for enrollment are provided below.
Who This Course Is For
- Academic Library Professionals aiming to highlight the impact of library services on student achievement and make data-informed decisions.
- Library Deans and Management seeking to integrate data-driven strategies into library planning and service assessment.
- MLIS Students looking to develop practical skills in data analysis to support student success initiatives in library settings.
What You Can Expect To Learn
- Data Analysis & Visualization: Learn foundational techniques in data analysis and visualization to make data-driven decisions aligned with student success goals.
- Impact Measurement: Gain the skills to demonstrate the library’s impact on student learning by analyzing and interpreting data that highlights academic support outcomes.
Guided Decision-Making: Discover how to use data insights to guide strategic library decisions, ensuring that library strategies are grounded in measurable results.
Course Highlights
- Hands-on Practice: Work with practice data sets that reflect real-life student success scenarios.
- Simplified Data Concepts: Demystify data analysis and build confidence in interpreting results that support academic achievement.
- Direct Application: Equip yourself with actionable skills that apply immediately to assessing and supporting student success through library services.
Key Features Of The Course
- Convenient access through the Moodle platform, tailored to accommodate the schedules of busy library staff.
- Self-paced structure allowing participants to progress at their own speed.
- Engaging and interactive video modules with downloadable practice files to support skill development.
- Case study of communicating student success findings to academic departments.
- Immediate applicability to library services, enabling library professionals to communicate the impact of the library on student success to relevant campus partners.
At any point, participants can email Devon Waugh (devon [at] nclive.org (devon[at]nclive[dot]org)) with questions about the course.
Sign-Up Instructions
1. Go to reporter.ncsu.edu and select Create New Account.
2. Create a Brickyard account with a username and password. This will allow you to save your place in the course. You can find detailed instructions for making a Brickyard account for additional assistance.
After making the account, you will receive an automated confirmation email from brickyard [at] ncsu.edu (brickyard[at]ncsu[dot]edu). Please email devon [at] nclive.org (devon[at]nclive[dot]org) if you do not receive the confirmation email.
3. Go to https://go.ncsu.edu/nclive-studentsuccesscourse to access the course in Moodle. You will login using your new Brickyard account.
4. Enter the enrollment key: nclivestudentsuccesscourse
5. Access the course!
The full instructions for signing up for the course are available to download as a PDF with detailed screenshots.