StudyNet Course Monitoring and the Student Dashboard

1. StudyNet Course Monitoring and the Student Dashboard

2. What is it? • A facility to aid both staff and students • Pulls together engagement and performance information • Help teachers identify where individual groups of students require further support or guidance

3. Course Level Monitoring

4. Course Level Monitoring • Overview of all students on a course instance • Displays StudyNet usage and assignment performance statuses • Overall status weighted in favour of assignment performance • Customisable threshold for calculating StudyNet usage status • Filters for displaying strong students or those who require further support • Links through to the Student Dashboard

5. Student Dashboard

6. Student Dashboard

7. The Student Dashboard • Separate Staff and Student versions in development • Staff version aims to help teachers identify where individual groups of students require further support or guidance • Student version aims to encourage and enable students to identify and act upon their learning needs including seeking academic support and guidance where necessary

8. The Student Dashboard • Shows student StudyNet usage and assignment performance compared to average for all of their modules • Displays StudyNet usage and assignment performance statuses on a per-module basis • Overall status weighted in favour of assignment performance • If accessing via Course Level Monitoring, the custom usage threshold is passed into the dashboard and used for calculating usage status • Student performance graphs for skill areas if used on Assignment System Marking Scheme • Option to select which academic year to display • Shows student’s last StudyNet login date and time

9. What data is used? • Currently, the following data is used in the Student Dashboard and Course Monitoring: • Student hits on Module sites within StudyNet • Data from the student’s StudyNet profile, such as course information and last login date/time. • Data from StudyNet assignments created using the new assignment system. • Only released marks are included • Works for both online assignments marked through StudyNet or the Offline Marking Client, and offline assignments where marks have been uploaded using the marking sheet. • In discussions and working with other teams about including other useful data that will assist both staff and students.

10. Other Monitoring Facilities Within Modules • All of the old StudyNet monitoring facilities are still available within module sites • The Dashboard and Course Monitoring are designed to complement these, not repeat or replace them • Additional Assignment Monitoring facilities are also available in modules • Features Student Assignment performance league table • A range of charts including how grades relate to module usage and hand-in times

11. Module Assignment Monitoring

12. Module Assignment Monitoring

13. Direction of the Analytics Fields - Education • Research at MMU and LRC Opening Hours • The Open University and ‘changes’ in Student Behaviours • US Universities and Graduate Destinations • Student Outcome Predictors Direction of the Analytics Fields – Industry

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15. Questions • How would you predict if a student is a risk of dropping out? What potential data could aid that decision? • Have you any existing questions that could be answered / investigated further using data? • How would you like to be notified of important dashboard events / findings? • What patterns of behaviour should we be investigating? • From the student perspective, what behavioural patterns would be useful to aid self-development? Direction of the Analytics Fields – Industry