The document discusses how itslearning supports differentiated learning through targeting content to individual learners or groups, creating individual learning plans, and providing reports to understand student progress. It outlines upcoming developments like learning paths that deliver differentiated course content based on student progress and 360 degree student reports for a more comprehensive view of student activity and performance. The document also poses open questions about how learning management systems can best support differentiated instruction.

1. D i f f e r e n t i a t i o n i n i t s l e a r n i n g
Steven Threadgold
itslearning

2. Overview
• Differentiated Learning Today
◦Targeting content for Individual or Groups of learners
◦Individual Learning Plan
◦Understanding progress – informing actions.
• Next developments
◦Learning Paths – differentiated course content based on progress and triggers.
◦360 Student Reports – better understanding student progress and activity.
• Open questions – how should LMS support differentiated learning

4. How do I find time
for differentiated
learning?
How is this relevant
to me?
Where do I need to
get to?
Teachers Students
What do I need to
do next?
How do I know what
will help my
students?
How do I
understand each
student’s progress.

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itslearning
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• Assigning content to
groups or the individual
• Individual Learning Plans
• Learning Standards
Mastery and follow up
tasks.

6. Individual and Group Access to Content
• itslearning supports the quick management of student groups in courses.
• Folders of content can be created and shared with specific groups.
◦Create remedial, reinforcement and advanced groups.
• Students can self-select the content or you can target.
• Quickly create tasks at individual or groups of students that they can check off to
say they have completed.
• See student progress and quickly message individuals with support or stretch
activities.

7. Individual Learning Plan
• The Individual Learning Plan or ILP is an instrument that can set goals and guide
the learning for an individual learner.
• ILPs are built-up around target skills (or competences). For each skill, goals and
tasks can be created. Commonly an ILP is created for a specific period of time,
such as a semester.
• The plan can be the base for termly meetings with the student and/or his/her
parents. In some counties this is even mandatory.
• Although the ILP can be used as a checklist of tasks, best practice in individual
learning is the aspect of reflection.

9. Standards Mastery and Progress Report

10. See each student’s understanding of learning
objectives

11. Group students who need support and assign tasks

12. If there is content in the library, this is automatically
searched and allocated
Add task to the student’s personal working portfolio
If used, the search will use the
student’s preferred learning content
types

13. Understanding all Aspects of Student Progress and
Activity
Advanced Reporting Data Warehouse
• Advanced reporting is
aimed at district/authority
administrators - flexible and
powerful deep-dive into
data.
• Advanced reporting is
across the whole site,
showing all schools.
• The data warehouse is the
heart of our reporting
solution.
• Information has been
'standardised' so it is easier
for 3rd party systems to
import and understand.

14. Advanced Reporting
• Advanced reporting is aimed at whole organisation reporting.
• Data is viewed across all students in the site.
• It gives flexible and powerful deep-dive into data.
• There are 14 “off the shelf” reports, many with multiple ways to view data, that
can be used straight away – we are adding to these over time (three this year).
• Login and session details
• Individual user login activity
• Course visits
• Elements report
• Learning objectives alignment report
• Learning objective progress report
• Learning objectives progress report - gradebook
• User status - daily overview
• User status
• Gradebook
• User course enrolment
• Hierarchy memberships
• Storage report
• User course visits
Template Reports

15. Learning Objective Progress Report
• Compare learning objective progress by organization, school, course or learning
objective.
• Detailed progress via distributions of student progress in meeting and mastering
objectives
• Progress in assessment and status over time
• Filter and sort to find most and least progress
• Gradebook view:
◦ Detailed student progress on each learning objective
◦ Filter to view data from selected learning objective topics, schools, or courses
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16. Menu

17. Learning Objective Alignment Report
• Discover if courses, plans and course elements are approximately aligned to
learning objectives.
• Statistics and comparisons of learning objective alignment across courses or
schools.
• Drill down to course or element level/.
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19. User Course Visits
• This report provides details on which users are visiting specific courses and gives
the duration/time spent in courses.
• Drill down from organisation to course to profile or user level.

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21. Grade and Progress Report
• Review all grade book assessed items at the site, school, course or user level.
• Filter by term or element type.

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2017 and 2018
Learning Paths
360 Degree Reports

24. Learning Paths – Differentiated Learning
• A Learning Path is a set of materials that are followed at the individual’s pace of
learning.
• Teachers can quickly set up paths of resources that change depending on the
student’s understanding, test scores or when they have completed sections.
• Learning paths can be shared and re-used. Shared paths can be customised by
teachers.
• Teachers can see where students are in the path and provide more support if
required.
• Students can self-pace their learning path, review progress and always know how
to move to the next step.

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Student 360
Degree
Reporting
Planned for January 2018.

29. 360 Degree Report
• The all new 360 Degree report shows overall course summary and then “deep
dive” for each student.
• Student Activity – course engagement, course visits, time spent in course.
• Student Progress – task completion, time on task
• Student Grades – grade trends and assignment averages
• Quick navigation – see an whole course overview then focus on student - viewing
their activity, progress and grades with one click.
• Compare students progress to see who needs additional support or needs to be
stretched.

30. Activity

31. Activity
Details
Page
Course
visits
Time in
course
Social
activity
Week to
week
activity

32. Progress
Resources
visited
Activities
completed
Time on
task
Number of
views

33. Grades
Grade
trends
against
course
average
Individual
grade
deep-dive.

34. Library Even Bigger
Even Smarter
Even Cooler

35. Learning Paths and 360 Degree Reporting
Students access
differentiated
learning paths
with clear goals
Check student
progress against
course outcomes
and their peers
Identify areas of
improvement for
groups of students
or individuals
Find additional
content to help
the students.
Create or modify
learning paths to
support students
Quick to
create. Easy to
reuse. Fast to
personalise.
DTDL and other
content can be
searched and
added quickly
I know where to
get to. I know what
do next. I can see
how this is
relevant to me.
I understand each
student’s progress.

36. Open questions – how should the LMS support
differentiated learning?