Understanding Student Pulse’s Wellbeing Dashboard

Student Pulse’s Wellbeing dashboard provides insights into the wellbeing of students in your assigned group based on their responses to the questions, "How are you feeling today?" and "Which of these best describes how you are feeling?"

Current view

The current overall score on the left indicates students' response to "How are you feeling today?" The example in Image 1 shows that 7.6 out of 10 students responded either "I’m feeling great" or "I’m feeling positive". The small number underneath indicates if the overall response is higher or lower than the previous time period. In the example, the school is up 0.5 points.

The dashboard adjusts the score based on your selected period. Select Week, Month, Term, or Year at the top right of the screen, or select a custom date range.

To select a custom date range:

1. Select the Select dates date picker.
2. Select Custom weeks range. 
3. Select the Start and End dates from the calendar.  
4. Select Apply.

The overall score is divided into the number of responses in each category over the current time period. In the example in Image 1, none of the students answered "I need some help," while 33 students answered "I’m feeling positive" in the selected period. Selecting a response will show the students who chose this answer on the All Students section.

Over time view

Select Over time at the top-right to view a trend graph on average overall scores over time.

Hover on a node to see the overall score for that period.

Help Inbox

If you are a Steward or a Pulse Director, you’ll see a list of current help requests on the Help Inbox widget. Select this widget to open your Help Inbox.

Trending Up and Trending Down

Trending Up and Trending Down help you identify the groups and individuals whose feelings are becoming more positive or negative over time. Selecting the group or a student will show additional information about their check-in history.

Word Cloud

The word cloud displays aggregated responses to the question, "Which of these [emotions] best describes how you are feeling?"

It organises words based on whether the responses lean positive, neutral or negative. You can filter these words by students’ responses to the check-in question, "How are you feeling today?"

When you hover over a word, the dashboard shows how many times students have selected it. The dashboard clusters the most frequently selected towards the middle and displays them more prominently than the less frequently selected words.

All Students

The All Students section displays your students’ check-in for the current and past weeks.

Select the more icon (three dots) on the student’s row to show how they checked in over time. This helps in identifying patterns.

Select the pin to pin a student to the top of the list.

You can filter the list to show students based on their responses.

Find students on the search bar and filter the results by time periods:

Digging Deeper Insights

You can see the student’s responses to the Digging Deeper question, where they select one emotion that best describes how they are feeling.

Pulse presents various response options depending on the student’s response, some of which are consistent across all responses.

To ensure questions are meaningful to students, Pulse presents them with options that are tailored to their age group (e.g. Primary, K-12). Learn more about setting up questions for age groups.

Table 1: Options presented to secondary students, according to their response to the Wellbeing question, 'How are you feeling today?'

Table 2: Options presented to primary students, according to their selected response to the Wellbeing question, "How are you feeling today?"