Learning Analytics Insights Portal

How the Insights Portal can help

How many times did students use content in your site? This dashboard helps you answer this baseline course design related question. Additionally, were average scores on graded work low while students returned to content often?

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With the Insights Portal, I can now...

..diagnose where content units or items have high and low usage.

..match low/high usage items with related assessments, to diagnose alignment between lesson material and learning objectives.

..find content students needed to use, but didn't.

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When to use the Insights Portal

• You have a lot of units and content for your students to use
• You want to see overall use of content items.
• You want to quickly see which content is only being used by a small number of students

STEP 2

Good Analytics Practice

What content items are my students using in my course?

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STEP 1

Fill in the gap

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“See what items students are going back to review to better understand what they find useful.”

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- Learning Analytics Team

TIP:

Check the most and least used item lists. Are they what you expected?

Choose the Completion dashboard

From the Introduction page click the “Content Use” link. This will take you to an overview of interaction with your course content from across the semester.

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Select your section

In the “Choose a section to filter the page” area of the dashboard select which section you want to display. Once you do this all of your content from that section will show as a visualization in the section below.

Look at the visualization to see what students are looking at.

Suggestions for Action

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Communication

• If there is an item that high performing students are using more than the other students then you may want to highlight that as a valuable resource.

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In the Classroom

• See how students are completing and reviewing items to see what they find important and reinforce that in the classroom or find time to go over overlooked items.

Curriculum Review

• Look at what units students are skipping and see if you can figure out why those are reviewed less frequently.
• See if lesser viewed items can be moved around in the curriculum to see if students would look at them more.

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Learning Analytics Insight Portal

Good Analytics Practice

What content items are my students using in my course?

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STEP 3

The visualization will display most and least used Units and Content Items. You can quickly identify what students are looking at and see if you need to make recommendations on what to study. This dashboard also has a section for the items that had more views by fewer students in your course.

STEP 4

TIP:

See which Units and Items are most and least used.

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~ If my students had high engagement early in the semester and it has dropped off perhaps they have found the cycle of the course or go directly to the content without going through a Unit.

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~ If there is a Unit or content item that is looked at more than others than the students may find that Unit/Item more important than others.

Interpretations