Big Updates to LectureLogger for Advisors: Smarter Tools for Student Success

We’ve made several powerful updates to LectureLogger’s Advisor tools to help administrators, advisors, coaches, and student support staff better track attendance, identify at-risk students, and collaborate more efficiently across campus.

Whether you’re supporting students day-to-day, working with student athletes as a coach or athletic advisor, guiding first generation or special cohort programs, or advising law students and professional schools, these new features make it easier to keep students engaged, intervene earlier, and drive long-term success.

Semester Summary Tracking

Visualizing attendance trends across the week, month, and semester with LectureLogger’s advisor dashboard.

Advisors can now define the semester start date, enabling automatic calculation of attendance percentages by:

• Week

• Month

• Full semester

This makes it easier to spot trends in attendance over time and guide more targeted interventions.

Last Attended Date with Smart Sorting

Advisors can quickly see when a student last attended class —a powerful tool for supporting students and meeting compliance requirements.

Want to know how recently a student has been in class? Advisors and professors can now view each student’s last attended date and sort by:

• Most recently attended

• Longest time since attendance

This feature helps surface disengaged or at-risk students before they slip through the cracks, giving advisors and instructors an actionable early alert. It also supports compliance efforts by providing a record of student participation.

Star Students for Easy Monitoring

LectureLogger’s star students feature helps advisors and faculty prioritize student athletes, first gen students, and others who need more consistent support.

Need to keep an eye on a specific student? With LectureLogger, advisors can now star students to highlight them on their dashboard for quick access.

This feature is especially valuable for tracking student athletes, first generation students, or students with complex support needs who may require more frequent check-ins.

By starring students, advisors can intervene early and meet institutional requirements for proactive student success.

Add Notes to Student Profiles

Advisors can leave shared notes on student profiles in LectureLogger, improving collaboration and creating a record for compliance.

To promote better collaboration among advising teams, advisors can now leave internal notes on student profiles. Notes are visible to all advisors with access to the student, helping:

• Avoid repeated or duplicate outreach

• Prevent “information shopping” where students give different stories to different advisors

• Keep faculty, coaches, and support staff in sync

• Strengthen compliance documentation by maintaining a clear record of advisor-student interactions

By centralizing notes, LectureLogger helps advisors provide coordinated, efficient support for student-athletes, first-generation students, and other high-need cohorts.

Track Excessive Absences More Easily

LectureLogger flags students approaching absence limits, helping advisors intervene early and maintain compliance with course and institutional policies.

Instructors can now enter a course specific "number of allowed absences" setting. This makes it easier for advisors and professors to:

• Spot students nearing or exceeding absence limits

• Prioritize outreach and intervention based on course expectations

• Support institutional and accreditation compliance

Improved Notifications for Students

Students now receive clearer mobile push notifications when they are close to absence thresholds, encouraging them to more carefully consider unexcused absences before reaching limits.

Other Quality-of-Life Improvements

• Sortable columns for better data navigation

• More accurate attendance percentages

• Faster load times and display fixes

Reminder: Key Features You Already Have

These updates build on the already strong capabilities of LectureLogger for Advisors, including:

• Full search access to all assigned students

• Attendance views across all enrolled courses

• Ability to request excusals on behalf of students (perfect for athletic advisors or coaches)

• Mobile friendly views to access student data on the go

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Whether you’re working to meet compliance standards, improve student retention, or support athletes, LectureLogger gives advisors the tools to make smarter, faster decisions that drive real impact.

Have questions or want a walkthrough of these new tools? Contact us to learn more about LectureLogger for Advisors.