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LEARNING ANALYTICS

What is learning analytics?

“The practice of developing actionable insights through the collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.”

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Learning Analytics informs Learning Design

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Before Semester During Semester After Semester Teach Course Again

• Who are my students?
• What programs/careers are they enrolled in?
• Information about previous delivery of this course
• What is the course design?
• How are my students going?
• What are they doing?
• What are they understanding?
• Are they having problems in specific areas?
• What did my students do?
• What did they learn?
• How does the content align to the program objectives?
• Are there any trouble spots in the course design or technology used?
• What improvements can be made?
• What did the students think?
• Re-design aspects of course
• Adapt to a different Course
• Expand repertoire

How can Learning Analytics help you?

Reports

• Detailed Course Reports
• Student Engagement Reports
• High Failure Rate (HFR) Reports
• Other Ad-Hoc reports on request

Tools

• LMS Analytics & New Analytics (MyUni)
• Student Insights
• Using analytics for student communication (New Analytics & OnTask)
• Further support with course insights, interpreting data

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Detailed Course Report

• Enrolment details: history, status, by gender,

by residency

• Course history: prior courses, current

courses

• Units: current load & number of units passed

by students

• Previous attempts at course
• Average mark: course, school & faculty
• Grade and mark distribution
• Pass rates: by course, school, faculty, gender

residency

• Comparative to previous iterations of the

course

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Student Engagement Report

• Analysis of overall student engagement
• Engagement vs academic performance
• How, when, why students engage
• Pre-course engagement
• Semester break engagement

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High Fail Rate (HFR) Report

• Explore aspects which may be connected to

student performance:

• course outcomes (total and %)
• dropped enrolments
• assessments
• activity vs final mark
• engagement
• request counts

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Additional Reports

• Learning Analytics can provide ad-hoc and

additional reports upon request

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LMS Analytics & New Analytics

• Dashboard providing access to data that

supports evidence-informed engagement

• Views & participations of each course element
• LMS Analytics currently available in all courses
• New Analytics is a dashboard developed by

canvas

• Provides insights into student engagement,

grades, interactions

• Available in all courses now

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• Improve academic experience of

students through delivery of personalised and actionable feedback within a course

• Start with New Analytics: based on
• ne data point – student

participation/views of course content

• OnTask can be multiple data points

but time commitment for training, knowledge of CSV and excel are required.

Communication Tools: New Analytics & OnTask

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Student Insights

• Student dashboard providing

insights on engagement with course content

• Highlights content not yet viewed
• r participated in
• Provides comparison to peers
• Piloted in 10 courses in Semester 2,

2019

Want to know more?

Contact the Learning Analytics team on learn_analytics@adelaide.edu.au

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