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Traffic Lights

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What are traffic lights in NULA?

  • Within the NULA system traffic lights are used to indicate how well a student is engaging in each of their modules by providing a quick visual indicator, green for high engagement, red for low engagement and amber for those in between.
  • For each metric that is produced within the system a traffic light colour is assigned.
  • The thresholds for each metric and the overall module summary are slightly different and can be found below.

Attendance

The thresholds for attendance are shown on the right.

Note: The attendance metrics are calculated based upon the last 2 weeks.

Traffic LightMetric Values
Green 75% or greater
Amber Between 50% and 75%
Red Below 50%

 

Canvas

The thresholds for Canvas are shown on the right.

Note: The Canvas metrics are calculated based upon the last week of engagement.

Traffic LightMetric Values
Green 75% or greater
Amber Between 50% and 75%
Red Below 50%

Submissions

The thresholds for submissions are shown on the right.

Note: The submission metrics are calculated based upon the last 2 weeks.

Traffic LightMetric Values
Green 90% or greater
Amber Between 40% and 90%
Red Below 40%

 

Summary

The summary metric combines the metric scores for attandance, Canvas and submissions into a single value, summarising a student engagement at a module level.

The thresholds for the summary metric are shown on the right.

Traffic LightMetric Values
Green 70% or greater
Amber Between 30% and 70%
Red Below 30%