Measuring Student Engagment

Sean Yo
James Storm from D2L

Attendees:- Sheryl & Marg

With the daylight upgrade Class progress and User Progress are getting an upgrade to the look and feel.

The BDP ( Brightspace data platform) included with no additional charges. Uses APIs.

Two Changes to User Progress have been made which  require the BDP.
1. Course access progress not just last logged in to any course
2. Notes if the content has been downloaded. ( Interesting for the PDF content that students are still accessing @ Te Kura.)

Insights improvements
Reports accessed through the Insights Portal
Tool usage i.e quizzes, assignments etc. Can be filtered by role type and throughout different time periods. Can Export all reports to CSV!
System logins by role. Can be filtered by course.
Insights can't be trialed.

Course overview and engagement views for instructors
- sits on a course widget
- overview of course access
- filters to number of logins
- access to course access report
- information is retrived from the BDP.
- information can be drilled down to sections so useful for individual teachers, senior teachers and curriculum.

Engagement report
- utlises the information in user progress
- email reminders available within this report
- shows grade distribution
- each column of information links directly to the tool
- name/student ID number for individual students within the tool
- can't view student engagement across multiple courses. Would have to do this by extracting from CSV.

Looks very useful for Te Kura!