StudyNet Course Monitoringand the Student Dashboard

What is it?

• A facility to aid both staff and students

• Pulls together engagement and performance information

• Help teachers identify where individual groups of students require further support or guidance

Course Level Monitoring

Course Level Monitoring

• Overview of all students on a course instance

• Displays StudyNet usage and assignment performance statuses

• Overall status weighted in favour of assignment performance

• Customisable threshold for calculating StudyNet usage status

• Filters for displaying strong students or those who require further support

• Links through to the Student Dashboard

Student Dashboard

Student Dashboard

The Student Dashboard

• Separate Staff and Student versions in development

• Staff version aims to help teachers identify where individual groups of students require further support or guidance

• Student version aims to encourage and enable students to identify and act upon their learning needs including seeking academic support and guidance where necessary

The Student Dashboard

• Shows student StudyNet usage and assignment performance compared to average for all of their modules

• Displays StudyNet usage and assignment performance statuses on a per-module basis

• Overall status weighted in favour of assignment performance

• If accessing via Course Level Monitoring, the custom usage threshold is passed into the dashboard and used for calculating usage status

• Student performance graphs for skill areas if used on Assignment System Marking Scheme

• Option to select which academic year to display

• Shows student’s last StudyNet login date and time

What data is used?

• Currently, the following data is used in the Student Dashboard and Course Monitoring:• Student hits on Module sites within StudyNet• Data from the student’s StudyNet profile, such as course information and

last login date/time.• Data from StudyNet assignments created using the new assignment

system.• Only released marks are included• Works for both online assignments marked through StudyNet or the

Offline Marking Client, and offline assignments where marks have been uploaded using the marking sheet.

• In discussions and working with other teams about including other useful data that will assist both staff and students.

Other Monitoring Facilities Within Modules

• All of the old StudyNet monitoring facilities are still available within module sites

• The Dashboard and Course Monitoring are designed to complement these, not repeat or replace them

• Additional Assignment Monitoring facilities are also available in modules• Features Student Assignment performance league table• A range of charts including how grades relate to module usage and

hand-in times

Module Assignment Monitoring

Module Assignment Monitoring

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• Research at MMU and LRC Opening Hours

• The Open University and ‘changes’ in Student Behaviours

• US Universities and Graduate Destinations

• Student Outcome Predictors

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Questions

• How would you predict if a student is a risk of dropping out? What potential data could aid that decision?

• Have you any existing questions that could be answered / investigated further using data?

• How would you like to be notified of important dashboard events / findings?

• What patterns of behaviour should we be investigating?

• From the student perspective, what behavioural patterns would be useful to aid self-development?

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