The phrase "alerting students to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to inform or notify students about something important or relevant to their studies or activities.
Example: "The teacher is alerting students to the upcoming exam schedule changes."
Alternatives: "notifying students about" or "informing students of".
The authors lend credence to critics who "question whether business schools do a good job of alerting students to the imperfections and incompleteness of the models and frameworks they teach".
In some cases, its public awareness efforts reach down to the middle school level, alerting students to career pathways they may not have considered in the past.
These findings imply that instruction aimed at alerting students to the possible negative effects of their intuitive endorsement of teleological explanations should be given more consideration and that it may increase learning gains.
As Hyland (2013) rightly mentions "teacher feedback should play an important role in scaffolding cognitive development, alerting students to their strengths and weaknesses, and contributing to their acquisition of disciplinary subject matter and writing conventions" (p. 240).
A few professors give trigger warnings, alerting students to potentially offensive or frightening material.
( The Fountain Hopper, an anonymous publication that made waves earlier this year by alerting students to their rights to request their admissions files under FERPA, discovered the case after receiving a tip from a member of the lab on March 19).
In recent years "trigger warnings" have been adopted by many universities in America to alert students to syllabus material that might be distressing.
Soon after the shootings, university officials and police were criticized as taking too long to alert students to the danger after the first one.
The government's Health Protection Agency will use the start of the new academic year to alert students to the risks of catching meningitis.
Educators who have tried the hand-held devices in class also praise their calendar functions, which can alert students to due dates, and their beaming abilities, which encourage students to share and critique one another's work.
For courses in which vertebrate animals are to be used in dissection, surgery, or in other experimental procedures, the course description that appears in Courses of Study should alert students to this fact.
