Friday, September 21, 2012

Idaho Digital Learning Academy hires Starfish Retention Solutions - Wichita Business Journal:

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IDLA, a 7-year-old state virtual school formed byIdah legislature, offers online classes to students in the Starfish, an Arlington-based maker of student-retentioh software, will help pinpoint at-risjk students in real time, based on their dail y course work performance and then connect them to helpfu l resources. “One of the best ways to gauge student engagement is to keep track of how often they log in to thei ronline courses. Unfortunately, this is also one of the greatest saidRyan Gravette, technology director for IDLA.
“With Starfish, we will know this in real and be able to reengaged students and get them back in the Starfish will track when a student has not logged in to the cours management system for more than a week and then let an appropriatwparty know. That same party will also be alertede when a student gets two consecutivd progress reports with a scored of less than 70 David Yaskin, founder and CEO of is a alum. He was the former vice president of product strategy and leftthe D.C. company in October 2007 to start Starfish.

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