Solas — Institutional dashboard demo

For first-time visitors

A 60-second guide to this dashboard

Markers consistently say some version of: “they cited the source, but it doesn’t actually say that.” It’s rarely deliberate — usually, it’s paraphrase drift. No existing tool measures this at cohort level. Solas does. Here’s how to read what’s on this page.

Source Alignment · 84%

The dashboard’s headline metric — a single score for how much of this cohort’s cited evidence holds up. Solas checks every citation twice: can the source be located and verified, and does it actually support the claim it’s attached to?

In plain English: whether students’ citations are real, and whether they back up the claims they make.

If this number is rising, your source-literacy work is paying off.

The supporting KPIs

How much real student work the score is built from this term: citations checked, students who’ve audited their essays, modules with at least one audited submission.

Use the term and faculty filters above to drill into any cohort — a module, faculty, or term group.

The trajectory chart

Week-on-week movement of the cohort’s headline score. The dotted lines at 50 and 75 are reference bands, not targets.

A steady upward slope helps evidence improvement for OfS, quality assurance, or academic-integrity reporting.

Modules needing attention

Modules ranked by the headline score, lowest first. Where a cohort is struggling, the chip suggests a specific Library-led intervention.

Share these with your academic-skills team as the term’s priority list.

Citation skills breakdown

The deeper “why.” Five academic skills, scored 0–100 in each module. Red cells flag which specific cohort needs help with which specific skill.

Target your one-shot workshops at the red cells, not the whole module.

Recent activity

A live aggregate feed of citation-integrity outcomes from audits happening across campus — verified, needs-review, or flagged — with the module code so you can see where each one happened.

Use as evidence in academic-conduct policy reviews.

Everything on this dashboard is aggregate only. No student identifiers are shown or stored here.

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Scores out of 100: ≥ 85 strong 75–84 good 65–74 needs attention 55–64 weak < 55 critical

Source Alignment trajectory

weekly cohort score

How the cohort’s overall headline score is moving week by week.

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Average % of citations whose claims are faithfully supported by what the cited source actually argues. Calculated per essay, averaged across all audits in the cohort.

Modules needing attention

lowest source-alignment score · intervention recommended

Modules ranked from lowest to highest, with a suggested Library-led intervention for the weakest cohorts.

Citation skills breakdown

average score, 0–100

Breaks citation issues into the five academic skills Solas can measure from citation behaviour. Use this to target Library and academic-skills interventions to the specific cohort × skill cells that need them most.

Recent activity

Aggregate only — no student identifiers

Anonymised examples of recent alignment outcomes from audits happening across campus.