University College Dublin UCD LEAP (UCD Live Engagement & Attendance Project)

UCD LEAP, an online tool piloted from 2018/19 and mainstreamed from 2020 onwards, has been designed to identify and enable the provision of personalised and timely supports to students, in particular first-year students, at risk of disengagement from their programme. The resource enables UCD Student Advisers to analyse students’ engagement in their programme by reviewing programme-level, Virtual Learning Environment data.

UCD LEAP is informed by login and content access data. A weekly report is generated and sent to Student Advisers in all programme areas so that they can proactively reach out to students who have been flagged by the system to offer pastoral care and wellbeing support. Enhancements to UCD LEAP (through Tableau) will see the further development and customisation of VLE engagement reporting and the inclusion of additional metrics.