Distracted Student Report in School Manager

School Manager’s Distracted Student Report provides a dashboard that identifies students who may not be focused on their learning materials or uninterested in their learning environment compared to their class or group.

Prerequisites for Distracted Student Report

To use Distracted Student Report, you will need:

1. An Authentication Service configured in School Manager
2. Users and Groups configured in School Manager
3. Content Filtering Rules that block all of these categories:
   1. Proxies & VPNs
   2. Gambling
   3. Gaming
   4. Social Media and
   5. Streaming Media.

Accessing the Distracted Student Report

You must have either the Filtering/Reporting Administrator or Owner/Global Administrator user role to access Distracted Student Report.

1. In School Manager, go to Reports > Distracted Students.
2. Select From Date
   Choose a new start and end date, or use the preset values.
   
   

   Note

   Although there is no limit on the date filter, we recommend you select a period of less than three months due to the high volume of data that needs to be processed. Select a shorter date range if the Distracted Student Report displays an error message.

3. Select Group > any value
   Enter a group name you want to see in the results.
4. More than one group can be added.
5. Select the Load icon.

Hows does School Manager identify a distracted student?

The Distracted Student Report aims to identify students who may be displaying disengaged or distracted digital behaviour using a few combined indicators. It reviews student activity and rates students on a scale of 0 to 8, with 8 being the highest, using three factors:

Low data users over Date Range

The Low data users category is a list of students who have low network usage but have triggered VPN blocks within your network. It does not add points to the distracted student rating, but may help you identify students who are trying to circumvent your filtering policies.