The wellbeing pulse, after the six weeks

The guided six weeks end, but starting somewhere new doesn't. First Six now keeps a light hand on the shoulder after the arc: an optional wellbeing pulse for students who've graduated the six weeks, and a staff read that folds it into the same morale report.

What changed

• A fortnightly pulse, for students, never a gate. On the always-on home a graduated student sees a calm "how are you going?" every couple of weeks. It's a nudge, not a wall. Nothing is blocked if they skip it, and it only asks again after at least a fortnight has passed. A wobbling answer opens the same gentle "what's weighing on you?" follow-up the weekly check-in uses, and asking for a hand routes straight to help.
• A staff aggregate, in Insights. The Pulse report gains an After the six weeks section: the latest reply per graduated student, the four-bucket distribution, what's weighing on the ones who flagged a wobble, and a month-by-month trend once there are two months to compare.

Everything here holds the same privacy floor as the rest of Pulse. The staff view is aggregate only, the latest answer per student, and it stays hidden until at least five graduated students sit behind it, so an after-the-arc read can never be pointed back at one person.

Why it matters

The arc tells you how a cohort settled in. This tells you whether the ones who settled are still okay months later, which is the signal that used to go dark the moment the six weeks ended. For an institution it is the quiet, longitudinal read on whether starting well actually held.