(SpringerBriefs in Business Process Management) Learning Analytics Cookbook_ How to Support Learning Processes Through Data Analytics and Visualizatio

6.5 Serving 63
Now we can trace back and think about what might have caused this result, that is,
why there is another activity shown after about a month of dormancy.
The high points in the number of activities could be the result of having two final
examination periods (one in July or August and the other in September or October),
as this course offers two opportunities for students to take their final exam. Most of
the students seem to have taken the exam in the first period, before students in the
second exam period accessed the online Moodle course data.
What Resources Are Used More Frequently Than Others?
To see which learning object has the highest number of visit, you can look at the
detailed view under the “Overview” visualization. When sorting the activities in
descending order, we can see that Forum: Regular Languages was accessed the
most, with 35 users (Fig. 6.14).
The number of times this forum was accessed was 1626, indicates that the
students accessed it an average of about 46 times during the course. The peak
activity was on July 18 between 3:00 and 4:00, and this learning object was
frequently visited on Saturdays.
Two other forums that were administered in this course (Forum: Formal Languages
and Forum: Coding) also showed large numbers of accesses by students.
(Note that this does not indicate that these top three learning objects were accessed
by the most users, just the most times.) Let’s look at the detail view sorted by the
number of users shown in Fig. 6.15.
In Fig. 6.15, the same data has been sorted by users. Here we can see that Exercise
1, Course News, Task 1, Modular Arithmetic, and Numeral Systems are the top five
learning objects, as each was accessed by more than 54 students somewhere between
three and five times on average.
These five learning objects were accessed in April, specifically around weekends.
As the course description is presented at the beginning of the semester, it not
Fig. 6.14 Resources with high levels of activity