Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Idaho Digital Learning Academy hires Starfish Retention Solutions - Business First of Buffalo:

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IDLA, a 7-year-old state virtual school formed byIdahok legislature, offers online classes to students in the Starfish, an Arlington-based maker of student-retention software, will help pinpoinf at-risk students in real time, based on theie daily course work performance and then connect them to helpfulp resources. “One of the best ways to gaugse student engagement is to keep trac of how often they log in to theionline courses. Unfortunately, this is also one of the greatesty challenges,” said Ryan Gravette, technology director for “With Starfish, we will know this in real and be able to reengage studentzs and get them back inthe class.
” Starfish will track when a student has not logged in to the course managemen system for more than a week and then let an appropriatwe party know. That same party will also be alerted when a student gets two consecutive progress reporta with a score of less than 70 David Yaskin, founder and CEO of Starfish, is a He was the former vice president of product strategyt and left the D.C. company in October 2007 to startf Starfish.

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