PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: iAdvise News and Tips – Fall 2021 Early Alerts are open….updates and some tips!
The iAdvise Project Team has a news and a tip or you:
Fall 2021 Early Alerts are now open and will continue through Week 8...we've included some tips and tricks to view and manage alerts.
Early Alerts are now open in iAdvise and have begun with first-year seminar alerts starting last week and a range of courses beginning this week. You can visit the Early Alerts web pages for more information and directions for advisors for this fall semester. There are updated workflow recommendations for this Fall 2021 term.
There's a few things to remember -
Alerts are viewable by students and by advisors. There are a set of alerts that are additional information for advisors and those are marked that way. If you see "For advisor info only, not sent to the student" or similar phrasing, those alerts are not seen by the student and are provided to you for context.
For alerts that ARE viewable to the student, if they are cleared/resolved, the alert gets removed from the student's Dashboard. Please keep that in mind when determining activity and action. You can always COMMENT on the item and send your comment to the student to call the alert to their attention in email.
We know that there can be a lot of flags and to do's to view once Early Alerts begin, so there's a few things you can do to manage your view of your Tracking Menu:
- You can filter for tracking items from specific dates;
- You can set your view for items you've assigned to yourself if you have assigned tracking items to yourself as you work to address them.
Both of these tips are shown with screen shots in the detailed in the Early Alerts Downloadable Guide for Advisors for Fall 2021.
If you need help from our iAdvise Helpdesk, please email iadvisehelp@uic.edu. iAdvise Web Link - iadvise.uic.edu. OAD hosts iAdvise Open Hours EVERY WEEK and the hours are posted there - just come by and ask any question you want or give us a call! No previously scheduled time needed.