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

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For this purpose, the system shows the page at exactly the same window size at
which the user viewed it and can visualize the recorded mouse cursor movements. At
the top of the window is a timeline that shows when the user was active during his or
her session on that page: Yellow indicates that the user moved the mouse, and red
shows that he or she scrolled or clicked. This timeline is shown only to developers
and researchers, not to students.
7.3.5 The Learning Analytics Dashboard
The dashboard is a graphic and interactive representation of the students’ data based
on a selection of log data from the glossary activities. Data can be selected to
monitor:
1. General activity on the glossary task: The dashboard shows general information
about the students’ activities, the number of glossary items entered, the
number of terms, and the number and types of sources.
2. Ability to organize the glossary: The dashboard provides information about
whether, to what extent, and how the student completed the compulsory and
optional fields, including summary and percentage data about the number and
types of fields filled in, a list of the descriptions entered, their length, and the
language used in the description field.
3. Ability to search the web for information: The dashboard shows the students’
preferred sources and a list of all the web addresses that were opened and tracked
by the proxy.
More details about the dashboard visualization can be found in Sect. 7.5.
7.4 Cooking
If you are a teacher and you want to cook this recipe, these are the steps you need to
follow:
• Step 1
– Access the LearnWeb environment created for your classroom.
– Ask for a customized Registration Wizard for your course (Sect. 7.3.1).
– Design the environment according to the learning activities (e.g., folders,
group of resources).
– Share the Registration Wizard with your students and ask them to create an
account.
• Step 2
– Assign tasks to your students based on the learning goals.