{"id":37,"date":"2022-12-05T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/learninganalytics\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:02:41","slug":"learning-analytics-in-brightspace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/learninganalytics\/learning-analytics-in-brightspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Analytics in Brightspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carleton’s LMS, D2L Brightspace<\/a>, offers multiple different ways of gaining insight into your course\u2019s performance using student behavior data that is collected by the Brightspace software. These Brightspace Core Analytics<\/em> are extremely powerful and can be used to gain insight into many aspects of your course design and levels of student engagement.<\/p>\n

Note that Brightspace does not collect data from third party tools and LTIs. If you wish to obtain student data from supported tools, use the analytics capabilities of the individual tools. For more information, see the section on Supported Tools with learning analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brightspace Core Analytics Tools<\/h2>\n

The table below lists the Brightspace Core Analytics tools supported at Carleton. Click on each tool’s name to see a brief overview and screenshot of the tool being used. You can find this list of tool descriptions below the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Brightspace Tool<\/td>\nUse Cases<\/td>\nLearning Data Collected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Discussions Stats<\/a><\/td>\nGather information on student engagement and disengagement in a course<\/td>\n\n
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  • Individual Student threads, replies, and number of read messages.<\/li>\n
  • Number of Unapproved and Scored posts.<\/li>\n
  • All the listed statistics also available for Groups in your course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quiz Stats<\/a><\/td>\nTo perform detailed analysis on quiz structure and question engagement, and inform future Quiz design.<\/td>\n\n
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  • Score distribution.<\/li>\n
  • Average score.<\/li>\n
  • Standard deviation.<\/li>\n
  • Discrimination index.<\/li>\n
  • Point bi-serial for each question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Intelligent Agents Reports<\/a><\/td>\n<\/p>\n

Many potential uses cases including to build reports that satisfy a combination of the agent Criteria Fields and release conditions, such as completion or non completion of work, or login details.<\/p>\n

For a complete list of use cases, visit our support site Using Intelligent Agents to Create Data Reports<\/a>.<\/td>\n

Use Intelligent Agents to create Data reports on:<\/p>\n
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  • Assignments.<\/li>\n
  • Classlist.<\/li>\n
  • Content.<\/li>\n
  • Discussions.<\/li>\n
  • Grades.<\/li>\n
  • Quizzes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Class Progress<\/a><\/td>\nTo identify students at risk of low performance,or at promise of improved performance.<\/td>\nView detailed student progress reports for:<\/p>\n
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  • Assignments.<\/li>\n
  • Quizzes.<\/li>\n
  • Discussions and other course components.<\/li>\n
  • Detailed system login and access information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade Statistics and Event Logs<\/a><\/td>\nTo observe trends in class grade performance.<\/td>\n\n
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  • Student Grade performance data.<\/li>\n
  • Basic grade statistics including Mean, Median and Mode.<\/li>\n
  • Information on the Creation, Deletion and Restoration of grade items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Course Content Reports<\/a><\/td>\nTo view and export overall content viewing statistics in a course, as well as viewing statistics for individual students and content modules.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Number of Students who visited modules\/topics.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Average time students spent viewing content<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Rubric Statistics<\/a><\/td>\nTo observe trends of how student performance <\/span>corresponded<\/span> to specific rubric criteria<\/span> .<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\n