Providing In-Progress Notifications on Academic Performance (formerly Mid-Term Alerts)

The policy formerly known as "Providing Mid-Term Alerts on Academic Performance" underwent comprehensive review earlier this winter. As part of the comprehensive review process, the policy was re-named to “Providing In-Progress Notifications on Academic Performance” to make it more clear that students can be notified of good performance as well as poor (the old name with the word “alert” seemed to imply that the system could only be used to send notification if a student was doing poorly).

Since the new process will use delivered PeopleSoft functionality (which is tied to grade roster generation), the policy was also revised to remove references to the specific weeks in the semester when the notifications were to be sent. The language now reflects that these types of notifications are to be sent to students at such a point in the semester when students can either improve their academic performance or withdraw from the course by the withdrawal deadline. Faculty are also now encouraged to send notifications to all students in all classes.