Title iv

Skill chaz-clark/canvas-toolbox/.claude/skills/title-iv

Use for federal Title IV compliance — the last-date-of-academic-engagement / unofficial-withdrawal audit (course_engagement_audit), the cached Title IV snapshot (update_title_iv_snapshot), and AI-engagement classification. Load this when the task mentions Title IV, R2T4, unofficial withdrawal (UW/UF), last date of attendance/engagement, or "who stopped participating." This is a compliance domain, distinct from general course auditing — the classifications carry federal-aid consequences.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add chaz-clark/canvas-toolbox --skill title-iv

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Title IV engagement & unofficial-withdrawal compliance

Federal financial-aid compliance (34 CFR 668.22 / R2T4): determine each student's last date of academically related activity and flag unofficial withdrawals. This is a compliance domain, not a general course audit — a wrong classification has federal-aid consequences, so the tool surfaces candidates and the registrar/financial- aid office makes the determination.

The constitution (AGENTS.md) binds you: named reports are written OUTSIDE the repo (never a cloud-synced or git-tracked path), and console output is de-identified (user_id, never names).

The classifier — `course_engagement_audit.py`

Classifies enrolled students:

NEVER_PARTICIPATED — no engagement on record (logging in ≠ engagement; there must be a submission, quiz attempt, or discussion entry).
UW (Unofficial Withdrawal) — last engagement before the UF cutoff, passing-or- unknown grade.
UF (Unofficial Fail) — UW and a failing grade → R2T4 candidate.
INACTIVE_ENROLLMENT — dropped/concluded in Canvas; surfaced for review, not auto-classified (may be an already-processed official withdrawal — the registrar/ FA office decides).

Key behaviors

UF cutoff auto-derives from Canvas. No --uf-date? It uses the course's Canvas end date, falling back to the term end date (--uf-date end / term-end / an explicit YYYY-MM-DD). The resolved date + its source print in the header, so the classification date is auditable.
Inactive students are included by default — the exact population an engagement audit exists to review. --active-only excludes them.
FERPA output discipline: the named report is written to ~/Downloads/, never inside the repo. Re-identification happens only at the final write step, keyed, to a file outside any cloud-synced / git-tracked location.

course_engagement_audit.py                       # cutoff = Canvas course end date
course_engagement_audit.py --uf-date 2026-07-25  # explicit cutoff
course_engagement_audit.py --active-only         # skip the inactive-review section

Supporting tools

update_title_iv_snapshot.py — fetch + cache the canonical Title IV snapshot for a course (the reference state a report is computed against).
ai_engagement_classifier.py — pluggable engagement-taxonomy over a student↔AI transcript, for courses that count AI-tutor interaction as academically related activity.

Regulatory note

The distance-education R2T4 final rules took effect 2026-07-01. Re-verify the tool's classification rules against the then-current FSA Handbook (Vol. 5, Ch. 1) if you're reading this well after that date — federal definitions of "academic engagement" evolve.