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[https://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=17233 Project Inspire] is an open source, transparent next-generation learning analytics that go beyond simple descriptive analytics to provide predictions of learner success, and ultimately diagnosis and prescriptions (advisements) to learners and teachers | [https://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=17233 Project Inspire] is an open source, transparent next-generation learning analytics that go beyond simple descriptive analytics to provide predictions of learner success, and ultimately diagnosis and prescriptions (advisements) to learners and teachers. Moodle’s Project Inspire is essentially Moodle’s Analytics Plan. The project aims to identify and validate, indicators of student, teacher and institutional engagement in educational activities. | ||
Information from this will be used to develop learning analytics software features, which will have these functions: | |||
* Description of learning engagement and progress, | |||
* Diagnosis of learning engagement and progress, | |||
* Prediction of learning progress, and | |||
* Prescription (recommendations) for improvement of learning progress. | |||
==== Anonymized "ready for research" Data ==== | |||
* [http://research.moodle.net/158/ "Learn Moodle August 2016" anonymized data set] | * [http://research.moodle.net/158/ "Learn Moodle August 2016" anonymized data set] | ||
Revision as of 10:35, 1 May 2017
Learning Analytics are any piece of information that can help an LMS user improve learning outcomes. Users include students, teachers, administrators and decision-makers.
Moodle Plugins
There are a number of reports, blocks and other plugins for Moodle that provide learning analytics.
Plugin | Plugin type | Standard / Additional | Useful for | Description | Reported usage* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Logs | Report | Standard | Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers | Filterable log of events | 71.4% |
Activity | Report | Standard | Teachers | View count of activities in course | 69.1% |
Activity completion, see also Course completion | Report | Standard | Teachers | Completion matrix of students and activities | 66.3% |
Live logs | Report | Standard | Teachers, Admins | Automatically refreshing log of events | 55.2% |
Feedback | Activity | Standard | Teachers, Researchers | Configurable survey tool | 59.5% |
(Quiz) Statistics | Report | Standard | Teachers | Student quiz performance report | 53.0% |
(Course) Participation | Report | Standard | Teachers | Single student's participation in course | 49.9% |
Survey | Activity | Standard | Teachers, Researchers | Set of standardised educational surveys | 45.6% |
Questionnaire | Activity | Additional | Teachers, Researchers | Configurable survey tool | 45.3% |
Course overview | Report | Standard | Admins, Decision-makers | Comparison of participation across multiple courses | 45.0% |
Course completion status | Block | Standard | Students | View of student's own completion of activities | 41.4% |
Progress Bar | Block | Additional | Students, Teachers | Time management tool for students with overview for teachers | 32.0% |
Events list | Report | Standard | Teachers, Admins | Events that can be monitored/searched in logs | 28.6% |
Activity results block | Block | Standard | Students | Leader-board of results in single activity | 26.1% |
Configurable Reports | Block (Report Graphs filter) | Additional | Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers | Report generation and viewing | 22.7% |
(Gradebook) Overview | Report | Standard | Teachers, Students | View of student grades across activites | N/A |
Statistics | Report | Standard | Admins, Decision-makers | Daily activity across site | N/A |
Event monitor | Report | Standard | Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers | Proactive, focussed monitor tool | N/A |
Ad-hoc database queries | Report | Additional | Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers | SQL-based report generation and viewing | N/A |
Engagement Analytics | Block, Report, Activity module | Additional | Teachers | Configurable engagement measurement report and block | N/A |
Course Dedication | Block | Additional | Students, Teachers | Estimated time online for students | N/A |
Graph Stats | Block | Additional | Teachers, Admins | Daily visits to site or course | N/A |
GISMO | Block | Additional | Teachers | Numerous charts of student activity participation | N/A |
Level Up! | Block | Additional | Students, Teachers | Incentive-drive participation meter | N/A |
Forum Graph | Report | Additional | Teachers | Graph of forum interactions | N/A |
Analytics Graphs | Block | Additional | Teachers | Visualisation of student participation | N/A |
Heatmap | Block | Additional | Teachers | Colour-coded indication of activity views on course page | N/A |
Analytics | Local | Additional | Admins, Decision-makers | Enriched feed to Google Analytics and Pywick | N/A |
Logstore xAPI | Logstore | Additional | Admins, Decision-makers, Researchers | xAPI event stream output | N/A |
* Reported usage is drawn from the Plugins Usage Survey from 2015.
Integrations with Moodle
A number of systems integrate with Moodle to provide learning analytics information externally.
- Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) (Git), consider Heatmap as an alternative
- Intelliboard
- Zoola (was Analytika)
- Learning Locker, can be used with Logstore xAPI
- SmartKlass
- Blackboard Predict
- Completing the loop
- IADlearning offers institutions and educators a rich set of analytics allowing them to understand the quality of their training content, as well as the quality of the ongoing learning processes.
Dimensions of Analytics
Learning analytics are a concept that has been emerging under a number of different names through the past decades. Its origins lie in research in data mining and intelligent tutoring systems. LA tools can be categorised in a number of ways:
- Descriptive
- Predictive
- Diagnostic
- Prescriptive
See also...
- Analytics and reporting forum
- Moodle Research forum
- Moodle research page
- Logging
- Events list
- Learning Analytics API specification
- Assessment Analytics working group details and issues
- Events specification
- Logging specification
- Report Builder API specification
- Use Generico filter to display custom DB reports with graphs Demo / Forums
- Solving the ethical and legal issues around learning analytics: a series of podcasts
- A number of free Moodle analytics plugins you can try available on http://plugins.moodlebites.com
Presentations
- Moodle Analytics Plans I Elizabeth Dalton at MoodleMoot Australia 2016 (video 24m)
- List of Learning Analytics related presentation, from project Inspire
Project Inspire
Project Inspire is an open source, transparent next-generation learning analytics that go beyond simple descriptive analytics to provide predictions of learner success, and ultimately diagnosis and prescriptions (advisements) to learners and teachers. Moodle’s Project Inspire is essentially Moodle’s Analytics Plan. The project aims to identify and validate, indicators of student, teacher and institutional engagement in educational activities. Information from this will be used to develop learning analytics software features, which will have these functions:
- Description of learning engagement and progress,
- Diagnosis of learning engagement and progress,
- Prediction of learning progress, and
- Prescription (recommendations) for improvement of learning progress.