LibGuides: Technology Guides for Faculty and Instructors: Starfish

Starfish Connect

These guides provide resources and instructions on how to use Starfish, Viterbo’s advising record, referral, and early alert system. Starfish is designed to increase campus communication between students, instructors, and advisors to enhance students’ academic experience and connect them with services to help them succeed.

If you have any questions about using Starfish, please contact starfish@viterbo.edu.

Starfish Connect for Advisors Guide
This guide highlights Starfish Connect features and functionality for faculty advisors, including locating advisee list, adding notes to student records, and referrals to resources.
How to Complete a Progress Survey
You can complete a survey for each of your classes where you can raise flags and send kudos to students on the survey. You will receive an email reminder when there is a new survey for you to complete.
How to Manually Raise a Flag, Kudo, or Referral
If you have a concern about a student, want to refer a student to a resource, or share a kudo with a student, you can raise these items manually.
How to Clear a Tracking Item
This guide provides direction on clearing tracking items, including flags, referrals, and to-do items in Starfish Connect.
How to Search for Student Attributes
This user guide will show how users can use filters to generate and download lists of students in Starfish Connect with certain attributes, including business office holds, registrar’s office holds, athlete status, specific majors, on-campus housing status, and more.