Take it EASI Using learning analytics to inform academic practice in Moodle - Rob Reed, Col Beer & Damien Clark at Moodlemoot AU 2014

1. Take it EASI
Using learning analytics to inform
academic practice in Moodle
Rob Reed, Col Beer & Damien Clark

2. Take it EASI
Early Alert
Student Indicators

3. CQUniversity

4. Brisbane
Gold Coast
Melbourne
Sydney
Bundaberg
Emerald
DE
Gladstone
Mackay
Noosa
Rockhampton
DE >50% of students
CQUniversity

5. DE >50% of students

8. Moodle (2.2) at CQUniversity

9. Moodle (2.2) at CQUniversity

10. Moodle (2.2) Reports

11. Moodle (2.2) Reports

12. 80% of online interactions with 20% of students

13. 80% of online interactions with 20% of students

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

16. EASICONNECT project (retention through connection)
1 Early Alert Student Indicators (EASI)
2 + Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV)
3 Program-based retention plans

17. EASI webpage (linked from Moodle course)

18. EASI webpage (linked from Moodle course)

19. Course X (term 1 2014)
Student 1
Course/student examples:

20. Course X (term 1 2014)
Student 2
Course/student examples:

21. Course X (term 1 2014)
Student 3
Course/student examples:

23. EASI

24. Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV)
Located in browser – Firefox (not LMS)

36. 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)

37. Usage – MAV (term 1 2014)
• 64,379 Moodle page ‘views’
• 115 staff

38. MAV source code:
• At: https://github.com/damoclark/mav

39. Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound
of your own wheels
drive you crazy