Take it EASI

Using learning analytics to inform academic practice in Moodle

Rob Reed, Col Beer & Damien Clark

Take it EASI

Early Alert Student Indicators

CQUniversity

Brisbane

Gold Coast

Melbourne

Sydney

Bundaberg

Emerald

DE

Gladstone

Mackay

Noosa

Rockhampton

DE >50% of students

CQUniversity

DE >50% of students

Moodle (2.2) at CQUniversity

Moodle (2.2) at CQUniversity

Moodle (2.2) Reports

Moodle (2.2) Reports

80% of online interactions with 20% of students

80% of online interactions with 20% of students

Smarter analytics

Information – relevant and available? Representation – does it help address the task? Affordances – of technology and environment? Change – what to do?

EASICONNECT project (retention through connection) 1 Early Alert Student Indicators (EASI)

2 + Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV)

3 Program-based retention plans

EASI webpage (linked from Moodle course)

EASI webpage (linked from Moodle course)

Course X (term 1 2014)

Student 1

Course/student examples:

Course X (term 1 2014)

Student 2

Course/student examples:

Course X (term 1 2014)

Student 3

Course/student examples:

EASI

Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV)

Located in browser – Firefox (not LMS)

Usage - EASI

• 5,968 visits to the EASI webpage

• 283 academic staff

• 357 individual courses

• 39,837 ‘nudges’ recorded

• 7,146 individual students contacted(from 15,708 students)

Usage – MAV (term 1 2014)

• 64,379 Moodle page ‘views’

• 115 staff

MAV source code:

• At: https://github.com/damoclark/mav

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