Since the feedback process begins with your participation, here are a few more details on how to use your Student Engagement Rosters.

Observations

• Providing information about attendance is crucial for federal financial aid compliance.  We suggest taking attendance, in some form, throughout the first two weeks in order to more accurately report attendance for each class. 
• Note that "Not Attending" will prompt you to identify the date the student stopped attending and is required in order to submit.
• Even though the attendance section is most utilized through the end of the second week of the semester, you can update students' attendance at any point during the semester. If a student stops attending, you should update the roster with the date of last attendance.
• Notice that you now have both positive and negative values to provide feedback on how students are engaging in your class. Use the feedback to encourage your students. Consider how you might use the SER in a SOTL-focused project in your course.
• When you make observations, consider providing at least one Recommendation for the student. The goal is to engage students more deeply in campus life. When students feel they belong on campus, they persist.

Recommendations

• Recommendations give students concrete steps to take in order to improve their class performance for the better and to get more deeply engaged in academic life.  Many of the recommendations are actually hyperlinked to take students directly to the relevant campus service when they click on them.
• The relevant staff in advising, tutoring, writing/math centers, and the other listed campus resources reach out to the students for whom you have made these recommendations.  
• Research has shown that students really do pay attention to the feedback they get from their faculty. While you may have been providing such recommendations verbally to students (suggesting, for example, that they consider undergraduate research or seek writing support), when you provide it through the SER, other offices whose mission it is to encourage students to get involved in research or become better writers can now identify students for outreach purposes. This increases the chances the student will follow through because they'll be getting the same message through multiple channels.