Patent ID: 8412736

Claim:
A system for associating a student-specific categorization of risk of poor academic performance to a plurality of students in at least one academic course and informing a person of the risk categorization, the system comprising at least one computer having a processor and memory containing processor-executable instructions for: collecting and storing data related to each student in computer memory, said data including a plurality of types of data including data selected from a first group including demographic data, personal data, extracurricular activity data, financial data, housing data, employment data, admission data, and registration data, and data selected from a second group including academic data, course management system data, course data, help resources data, technical log data, attendance data, tardiness data, unexcused absences data, workshop attendance data and training data; permitting a user of the system to select a plurality of data types including data from the first group and from the second group, and to assign custom weights to the selected plurality of data types; analyzing said data in a manner that takes into account the custom weight assigned to each type of data and results in a categorization of risk that a student will perform poorly academically in the at least one academic course; associating a risk categorization with each student; and informing a person of said risk categorization associated with the student through the computer.