DropGuard™ Early Warning System

The DropGuard™ Early Warning system is an innovative retention tool guaranteed to lower your institution’s attrition rate—and save you valuable tuition dollars. We’re proud to offer DropGuard™ with a full money-back guarantee— it will improve your school’s retention rate, or it’s free.

Early Alerts for Successful Retention Strategies

For most students, the decision to dropout occurs early during their interaction with an institution. DropGuard™ detects student problems as soon as they begin to emerge—enabling you to intervene as early and effectively as possible.

Weekly DropGuard™ reports make it easy for your school to allocate valuable resources to the most dropout-prone students. Plus, DropGuard™ coordinates pre-enrollment warning indicators with regular updates from faculty and staff regarding at-risk behavior and post-enrollment performance. DropGuard’s™ multi-dimensional risk analysis allows you to proactively match student needs with appropriate institutional support services—giving you enhanced institutional effectiveness during the intervention process. With DropGuard™ it’s easy to provide a timely and effective response to struggling or dissatisfied students.

Customizable Warning Flags

We know that every school is different. That’s why DropGuard™ features fully customizable warning flags to allow accurate at-risk student identification no matter what the specific needs of your institution. Consult our convenient templates to select common early warning flags, or create custom warning flags to fit your institution. DropGuard™ allows you to store alert types and assign numeric severity levels for added reporting precision.

Intuitive, User-Friendly

Automated email reminders effortlessly engage the continued participation of faculty and staff in identifying, monitoring and tracking at-risk students. All updates occur in real time, streamlining the management and intervention process by synchronizing data from across your campus.

DropGuard™ integrates seamlessly with SmartEvals survey products.

With DropGuard™, you can effortlessly:

• Gauge student satisfaction by administering satisfaction surveys following a student’s use of a campus office or facility.
• Gain perspective on a non-returning student’s reasons for withdrawal with our Class Year Surveys featuring innovative follow-up question technology.
• Proactively engage struggling but well-performing students by administering our check-up surveys during the critical early weeks of the semester.