Introduction
Utilising user data stored by our learning management system Moodle, Learning Analytics offers a data-driven way to assist academic/ teaching staff in better understanding how students learn and how they make use of various course resources.
To facilitate more transparent understanding and well-informed decisions by course instructors in relation to student engagement, learning progression and pedagogical adjustments, the Centre regularly organises workshops, seminars and sharing sessions for introducing a variety of learning analytics tools for academic/ teaching staff to adopt in their courses.
Workshops for Staff:
Workshops Details
BookRoll: A Learning Analytics Tool Specific for Reading of Articles
Reading is a common part of our courses, but often we have little information about how students read, e.g., how much time they spend on different pages, which parts they have more questions. BookRoll is a learning analytics tool that aims at tackling these needs: BookRoll provides an interface for students to read articles uploaded by teachers while allowing them to add notes and highlight texts of their choice. Students’ reading activities will then be summarised in a dashboard for further scrutiny by teachers. Through this workshop participants will learn how all these can be done with BookRoll through Moodle.
Schedule:
English/Cantonese
| 11 September 2023 (Mon) | |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | |
| Online through Zoom |
Tracking Contribution to Discussion Forums on Moodle and Overviewing Student Moodle Activities with IntelliBoard Reports
This workshop introduces two tools for tracking student activities on Moodle: Discussion Forum Participation provides instructors with summaries regarding contributions to Moodle discussion forums at the level of individual learners, groups and the entire course. IntelliBoard reports, on the other hand, allow instructors to have an overview of activities on Moodle and to identify inactive students.
Schedule:
English/Cantonese
| 13 September 2023 (Wed) | |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | |
| Online through Zoom |
Visualising Students’ Activities on Moodle via Behaviour Analytics
By representing Moodle activities and resources as dots, Behaviour Analytics allows visualisation of learners’ behaviour on Moodle in the form of a path navigating through these dots. This tool, furthermore, allows clustering of learners into different groups based on their learning patterns. By the end of this workshop you will gain some hands-on experience in using Behaviour Analytics in your Moodle courses.
Schedule:
English
| 13 September 2023 (Wed) | |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | |
| Online through Zoom |