The Student Profiler is an interactive tool designed for staff to reflect on potential student cohorts for courses, allowing them to tailor the educational experience. This beta tool enables experimentation with various 'what if' scenarios and aims to alert staff to opportunities and risks associated with different student profiles. Feedback is being sought from staff on usability, content, and categories to refine the tool further.

2. Student Profiler – an introduction

3. What is the Student Profiler? Interactive tool for staff Allows them to reflect on potential cohort for a course/module ‘ Who are my students?’ Student Profiler lets staff experiment with potential scenarios – ‘what if’ Aim – to think about course, student perspective

4. Potential benefits of tool Reflective tool – student-focused Alerts staff to opportunities/risks of potential cohorts Lets them personalise courses – tailoring the course experience to the cohort Matching course with the student experience

5. Initial development of concept Tool in beta – initial concept, prototype May change in look/feel, content categories, potential outputs Looking for feedback – all aspects of tool

6. Development – visual concept (1) From OU idea – spider diagram – needed to be more generic/prompting

7. Development – visual concept (2) From CETL R&R project – Life and Health Sciences – ‘Wheel of Life’

8. Rationale for visual design Good starting point for reflection Can drill down for more information/hints Straightforward visual output for staff Generic but still gives useful picture of student group Simple, easy to understand visual concept – at-a-glance view of cohort in wheel Slider easy to use/amend

9. Demo of Student Profiler

10. Potential student profile categories Cohort size Range of student abilities Independent Study Skills Diversity Prior subject experience First choice of course Professional/vocational focus of course Practical/skills based focus of course Need for tutor support Need for flexible pathways Peer interaction Ratio of tutors to students

11. Task – evaluation of categories (1) Potential categories on sheet Task – which categories do you think are most important? 10 dots – highlight student profile categories you think are most important More importance – use more dots in one category if you wish – spread how you like E .g. 5 dots in most important, 2 in less important

12. Developing the tool Question in survey to staff (what factors are important when planning for your teaching) - sent to 21 staff, 4 responses to date JISC Curriculum design cluster Working groups in Ulster Focus groups within the University Selected students

13. Moving it forward Ask groups to feedback on the following: Usability Usefulness Accessibility Content Potential outputs Identifying where tool could be used

14. Areas for discussion Are these the right categories? Is the wheel the right approach? How to word the outputs – opportunities/risks or hints/tips Where to get feedback information for staff Is there anything missing?