Student Activity Snapshot and Driving Engagement

The Student Activity Snapshot is a tool that can help you better understand student engagement within Handshake via analyzing data and identifying trends. This information can help to help drive student engagement. 

We also provide a Student Engagement dashboard in Analytics - for additional information, check out Dashboard: Student Engagement.

Student Activity Snapshot

The Student Success Snapshot is located on your homepage and is a great way to drive student engagement on campus. It makes it easier to track web logins, mobile logins, profile completion and campus profiles. A brief explanation of each field is included within the snapshot, and more details on the calculations are included below the example screenshot.

To navigate to the snapshot:

1. Click the Home option in the left navigation bar, at the top of the list. 

2. The snapshot will appear at the top of the news feed. 

Calculation details

Below are the details for how each measurement of activity is calculated, along with a link to replicate the data in Analytics. You can save these reports or use them as a foundation for a new custom report. When using the Analytics reporting links, please keep in mind that the data updates at different intervals between the Snapshot and Analytics, so the numbers may not align exactly.

Note: Each percentage excludes anyone marked as alumni of your school

Web Logins: Percent of students (excluding alumni) who have logged into Handshake. (via a web browser on a computer or mobile device, or mobile app)

This is calculated by number of students that have logged in / total students.

View data in Analytics: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/analytics/reports/new?looker_explore_name=students&qid=o3HfDSB4R9PCqwn5EPXhNu

Mobile Logins: Percent of students (excluding alumni) who have logged into the Handshake mobile app. (via iOS or Android)

This is calculated by students logged into app / total students that have logged in.

View data in Analytics: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/analytics/reports/new?looker_explore_name=students&qid=3zxNrA3qeoCR99KnyggZnd

Profile Completion: Percent of students (excluding alumni) with a complete profile (at least one work experience, organization, and skill).

This is calculated by students that have completed profile / students that have logged in.

View data in Analytics: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/analytics/reports/new?looker_explore_name=students&qid=VDbR0CGSeonXodSzvebo97

Campus Profiles: Percent of students (excluding alumni) that have opted to make their profile public to other students. 

This is calculated by students marked as visible to other students / students that have logged in. 

View data in Analytics: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/analytics/reports/new?looker_explore_name=students&qid=hSTfi76MElUQMjHyOAp6ZG

Driving engagement

With the Student Activity Snapshot, you can help your students explore more relevant opportunities by encouraging them to complete their profiles in appointments and around campus.

For example, you can use this information to dive into the data and monitor for trends, and answer questions like:

• Are there certain types of students that don’t have complete profiles?
• Which majors have the highest profile completion?
• Which school years have the highest profile completion?

You can use filters on the Manage Students page to identify students that you can engage with. 

Web Logins: use activated/not activated under Other filter

Mobile Logins: use has mobile login/has no mobile login under Other filter

Profile Completion: use Profile Completion filter, select complete/incomplete

Once you've selected the desired filters, you can select the checkmarks on the left of the student name, then use the bulk action Send Email to Users: 

This will allow you to generate a new email to these students. 

Here's an example of what that email could look like: