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Moodle Learning Analytics from different perspectives

David Monllaó OlivéLead Data Scientist at HQ

#moothr19@DavidMonllao

Analytics team in HQ

Chief Product Officer Lead Data ScientistMoodle Product Manager

Former Development Manager

Research Analyst

Analyst DeveloperSenior Analyst Developer

Analytics features overview

● Right now.

○ Moodle 3.7 (released in May 2019)

● In a few months’ to one year’s time

○ Moodle 3.8 (Nov 2019) or 3.9 (May 2020)

● Long-term vision

Analytics features overview

Available since Moodle 3.4, new improvements added in Moodle 3.7.

● Predictive models

○ Students at risk

● Insights

○ Notifications for users with suggested actions

Analytics features overview

In a few months’ to one year’s time (Moodle 3.8 or 3.9).

● AI Assistant

○ Conversational bot (E.g. search, navigation, how-to…)

● Extra reporting capabilities

○ Insights effectiveness

○ Custom course reports

Analytics long-term vision

● Make moodle more proactive

○ Improve students’ success by supporting teachers

in identifying students with difficulties.

○ Improve course contents by supporting teachers in

designing their courses.

○ Improve the way users interact with Moodle

■ AI Assistant

● Position Moodle as the de-facto educational

research platform

How analytics in Moodle helps

1. Students

2. Teachers

3. All Moodle users

4. Site administrators and researchers

5. Developers

Students

Upcoming activities due insight

New in Moodle 3.7

Upcoming activities due insight

A click on the notification forwards the user to the list of upcoming events in the calendar.

Upcoming activities due insight

Full notification

Analytics tools for teachers help

students indirectly

Teachers

Identification of students at risk

Available in Moodle 3.7

● At risk of not achieving the course competencies

● At risk of not meeting the course completion

conditions

● At risk of not achieving the

minimum grade to pass

● At risk of dropping out

Identification of students at risk

Scheduled for Moodle 3.8

● Students who have not accessed the course yet

● Students who have not accessed the course recently

Identification of students at risk

Identification of students at risk

All Moodle users

AI assistant

In a few months’ to one year’s time (Moodle 3.8 or 3.9)

● Currently gathering requirements

○ Your help is important! What would you like it to do?

Site administratorsand

researchers

Analytics models management

Available in Moodle 3.7

Analytics models management

● Enable / disable

● Edit

○ Indicators

○ Analysis interval (a.k.a “time-splitting method” in 3.7)

○ Machine learning backend

● Evaluate

● Export and import

Edit a model

Add a new model

New in Moodle 3.7

Export / import a model

New in Moodle 3.7

Evaluate a model

Available in Moodle 3.7

Upcoming courses with no teachers or students

Upcoming courses with no teachers or students

Upcoming courses with no teachers or students

Insights effectiveness

Scheduled for Moodle 3.8

Developers

How analytics helps developers

● Moodle core provides a set of reusable elements

to create and extend predictive models.

● Documentation.

○ https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Analytics_API

● Analytics forums & resources.

○ https://moodle.org/analytics

https://github.com/php-ai/php-mlhttps://www.tensorflow.org/

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