Learning Analytics Specification

Learning Analytics
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What are Learning Analytics?

Learning Analytics are any piece of information that can help an LMS user improve learning outcomes. Users include students, teachers, administrators and decision-makers.

There are a number of reports, blocks and other plugins for Moodle that provide analytics.

Plugin	Plugin type	Standard/Third-party	Useful for	Reported usage*
Logs	Report	Standard	Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers	71.4%
Activity	Report	Standard	Teachers	69.1%
Activity completion	Report	Standard	Teachers	66.3%
Live logs	Report	Standard	Teachers, Admins	55.2%
(Quiz) Statistics	Report	Standard	Teachers	53.0%
(Course) Participation	Report	Standard	Teachers	49.9%
Course overview	Report	Standard	Admins, Decision-makers	45.0%
Course completion status	Block	Standard	Students	41.4%
Progress Bar	Block	Third-party	Students, Teachers	32.0%
Events list	Report	Standard	Teachers, Admins	28.6%
Activity results block	Block	Standard	Students	26.1%
Configurable Reports	Block	Third-party	Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers	22.7%
Ad-hoc database queries	Report	Third-party	Teachers, Admins, Decision-makers	N/A
Engagement Analytics	Block, Report, Activity module	Third-party	Teachers	N/A
Course Dedication	Block	Third-party	Students, Teachers	N/A
Graph Stats	Block	Third-party	Teachers, Admins	N/A

* Reported usage is drawn from the Plugins Usage Survey from 2015.

Why is a Learning Analytics system needed?

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Interfaces

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(A useful interface mockup tool is Balsamiq)

Learning Analytics data gathering API

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How it works

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Benefits

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Usage scenarios

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Future work

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Documentation