Study Net Course Monitoring and the Student Dashboard

Study. Net Course Monitoring and the Student Dashboard

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

Course Level Monitoring

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

Student Dashboard

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

The Student Dashboard • Shows student Study. Net usage and assignment performance compared to average for all of their modules • Displays Study. Net usage and assignment performance statuses on a permodule 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 Study. Net login date and time

What data is used? • Currently, the following data is used in the Student Dashboard and Course Monitoring: • Student hits on Module sites within Study. Net • Data from the student’s Study. Net profile, such as course information and last login date/time. • Data from Study. Net assignments created using the new assignment system. • Only released marks are included • Works for both online assignments marked through Study. Net 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.

Other Monitoring Facilities Within Modules • All of the old Study. Net 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

Module Assignment Monitoring

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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