The cohort browser
The Students area is a flat, searchable list of everyone in the active cohort. It is built for finding one person fast and seeing only what you need to help them. Where Pulse shows you the cohort as a whole, the browser is where you go when a single student needs attention and you want the facts in front of you before you respond.
Finding a student
Search by name or email; the match is partial and case-insensitive, so a few letters is enough. Narrow further with the campus, degree, and group filters (for example, first-in-family students). The header shows the cohort's placement count so you can see at a glance who is placed and who is in an admin hold.
The partial, case-insensitive match is there so you do not have to remember exactly how a name is spelled or capitalised. When you are working from a help request that mentions only a first name or a fragment of an email, a few letters will usually surface the right person.
Needs attention
Next to the roster is a Needs attention tab. It reads the check-ins students have already shared and lists the ones whose own answers suggest they could use a nudge, either because a recent check-in read struggling or asked for help, or because a student who used to check in has gone quiet. It saves you opening every profile to find the handful of people who need you this week. The roster stays the default; you switch to Needs attention when you want to go looking, and each time you open it the action is recorded in your audit log. It reads only the same per-student check-ins the profile drawer shows, never the anonymous cohort insights. See reaching a student who needs a nudge for how to read it and what to do next.
The profile drawer
Click a student to open a read-only profile. It gathers the facts that help you respond well:
- Identity: name, preferred name, email, student ID, program, campus, cohort.
- Check-in history: their sentiment week by week.
- Help requests: a summary (total, open, crisis) and a table of every request with status, priority, and when it was last touched.
It is read-only on purpose. The drawer is for understanding a student before you act, not for editing their record, so there is no way to accidentally change someone's data while you are reading it. You can also move a student to another cohort from here when an enrolment changes.
The profile shows what a student has shared with the team (their check-ins and help requests). It does not expose their private WorkspaceThe student's personal space: tasks, notes, focus sessions, and the wellbeing reads they have opened.: tasks, notes, focus sessions, or the wellbeing reads they have opened. Those stay with the student.
The line that drawer draws is the same line the whole product draws: students share their check-ins and help requests with the team deliberately, and everything they keep in their own workspace stays theirs. Knowing this lets you answer a student honestly if they ask what you can see.
Exporting
There is no roster export from the browser yet. The export page (sidebar → Export) covers cohort morale, help requests, the audit trail, and weekly content; a full student-list export isn't available, so ask First Six if your reporting or sync workflow needs one.
Common questions
Can a student tell when I open their profile?
No. The profile drawer is a read-only view of what a student has already shared with the team, not an action on their account.
Why can't I see a student's notes or tasks?
By design. The profile drawer shows only what a student shares with the team, their check-ins and help requests. Their private workspace, including tasks, notes, focus sessions, and wellbeing reads, stays with them.
A student changed enrolment. How do I move them?
From the profile drawer. It lets you move a student to another cohort when their enrolment changes, without leaving the browser.
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