For tips on increasing participation, see How do I maximize student participation? If you use those strategies and still find that there are specific groups of students who are underrepresented among your respondents, consider doing targeted outreach. For example, reach out to individual students who are members of that group and tell them that you’d really appreciate hearing their perspective.
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About Elevate
- Why Elevate
- Learning Conditions in Elevate
- Elevate Eligibility & Pricing
- Elevate Demo & Tutorials
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Lead an Elevate Community
- Prepare to Facilitate an Elevate Community
- Support Elevate Community Members
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Privacy, Security & Terms of Use
- Policy & Terms
- Student Privacy & Anonymity
- Educator Privacy & Communication
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Program Set Up & Participation Monitoring
- Registration
- Communities
- Members (People & Permissions)
- Classes and Rosters
- Schedules
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Survey
- How do I administer the Ascend or Elevate survey to my students?
- What are students asked on the survey?
- How can I be sure students understand the Elevate questions?
- Do the surveys collect any qualitative data?
- How can I preview the survey?
- Can I edit or select a subset of survey questions in Elevate?
- What accessibility features are available in the survey?
- Is the Elevate survey available in Spanish or other languages?
- Do participants experience survey fatigue?
- What if a participant completes the survey more than once in the same survey window?
- Why can’t a participant access the survey?
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Participation
- How do I maximize student participation?
- What’s a good response rate?
- How do I obtain a more representative sample of survey respondents?
- How to use the Community Participation Dashboard
- How to use the Network Participation Dashboard
- How do I check which individuals gave the survey?
- How do I know which participants completed the survey?
- Networks
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Reports
- Use Your Report to Improve Learning Conditions
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Report Basics & Terminology
- What do reports include?
- How do I access, share, and save reports?
- What does "rated positively" mean, and why is it used?
- What does “structurally disadvantaged race” mean in the report tables and bar graphs?
- What does “high financial stress” mean in Ascend?
- For Target Group counts, what do you mean by “in some classes”?
- How do I see results for each Survey Cycle?
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How to Read Your Reports
- How to Use the Student Experience Overview
- How to Use the Equity Overview
- How to Use the Participation by Subpopulation Table
- How to Use the Survey Fidelity Table
- How to Use the Student Experience by Survey Graph
- How to Use the Results by Subpopulation Graph
- How to Use the Target Group Summary in Community Reports
- How to Use the Student Experience by Community Table
- How to Use the Equity Summary by Community Table in Network Reports
- How do I interpret data in the exported .csv format from my Network report?
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Data Calculations in Reports
- How are data calculated in reports?
- Are partial survey responses included in reports?
- What do we do with missing data (e.g., when a participant skip a survey)?
- How is # of respondents calculated?
- How is percent participation calculated?
- How are responses to negatively worded questions displayed, where “agree” means participants are having a negative experience? (e.g. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong.”)
- A Class missed a survey. How does that affect our reports?
- Data Disaggregation in Reports
- Report Troubleshooting
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Updates
- Release Notes