As academics it will be nice to have the ability to predict as early as doable, which college students are going to require extra assist, to get correct suggestions on what a cohort has grasped and to adapt educating to raised meet particular person college students’ wants. The consumer data gained from methods akin to Canvas and Panopto can present an perception into answering these questions. Use of scholar information in training is commonly given the title Studying Analytics.
On this submit, I’ll discover three sources of studying information accessible to educating employees on the College of Sussex.
- Canvas Analytics Beta
- Canvas Quizzes
- Panopto
Canvas Analytics Beta
Be aware: Entry to Canvas Analytics Beta has been briefly suspended previous to it’s official launch on nineteenth October.
As is evident from its title, Canvas Analytics Beta remains to be comparatively early in its improvement, nevertheless, whereas restricted, this device can nonetheless present some helpful data for educating employees.
You’ll be able to add the analytics device to your module by going to Settings > Navigation, then dragging Analytics Beta up into your module navigation (it won’t be seen to college students).
The device has two major views: Course Grade which gives information on actions akin to quizzes or assignments, that are linked to the grade guide and Weekly On-line Exercise which supplies extra normal information on views of pages and assets. Choices to filter and drill down into this information are usually not at the moment accessible. You’ll be able to, nevertheless, obtain the info for evaluation in software program akin to Excel.
At current, most might discover the latter view most helpful, providing you with a fast thought of how a lot exercise there’s on a module.
Scroll all the way down to the desk beneath and you may rapidly get an thought of who’s actively viewing course data (and who is just not).
The Course Grades view for many will present just one or two contributory assignments so could also be of restricted worth. In the event you incorporate extra, formative on-line actions, spaced all through the time period which feed into the gradebook, this could develop into extra helpful.
This brings us neatly onto our subsequent subject.
Canvas Quizzes
Quizzes generally is a actually helpful approach to test scholar progress all through a module. The quiz device in Canvas gives educating employees with wealthy data on scholar responses. You’ll be able to learn extra about tips on how to use quizzes in our earlier submit: Canvas highlights 1: Quizzes and within the Canvas information to quizzes
You’ll be able to entry response information by clicking by to a quiz. A hyperlink to Quiz Statistics will be discovered beneath ‘associated gadgets’ within the high proper nook of the display. Right here Canvas gives a abstract of scores for every quiz and a breakdown by query. Utilizing this it’s straightforward to establish areas of concern for a post-lecture revision quiz.
The discrimination index listed by every query helps to focus on questions which draw totally different responses from those that rating extremely total to these with decrease scores. A low discrimination index on a query that many college students get improper might point out a spot within the educating (or an error within the query).
For particular person scholar responses choose the hyperlink to Average this quiz. There you possibly can assessment every scholar’s responses, although that is listed by candidate quantity so that you gained’t have the ability to establish people by title.
Panopto
Our new media platform gives wealthy information on scholar engagement with movies. This may be both per video or aggregated for all video in a module.
Creators can entry the Panopto statistics dashboard from a module by deciding on Panopto Recordings from the navigation menu. Module folder statistics will be discovered by way of the bar chart icon, high proper. Alternatively, hover over a person video and choose Stats to view the info to your chosen video. This can present what number of views there have been by date and the way a lot of the movies college students have watched.
A neat characteristic of Panopto is the flexibility to look by key phrase and skip to a particular level in a video. Usefully, the stats dashboard features a chart which reveals which components of a video college students have seen. This may increasingly assist to point if college students have missed vital data.
