Tracking student engagement in Moodle

• 90 minutes ideally (but one hour at a pinch).
• In a computer room.

Topic

Moodle logs a user’s activity whilst they’re logged in. Hence, staff can trace students’ engagement with activities and resources in the educationally valuable reports generated. They can be used strategically to improve learning outcomes and help to manage your workload. In this session you’ll devise contextually relevant questions and receive guidance on how to answer some, by interpreting various Moodle Reports. We’ll discuss the implications of your findings. We’ll touch on the MyFeedback report and Attendance monitoring, but will focus on the other reports listed in the Settings block. This session suits staff with editing permissions on a Moodle space used by students. Learning outcomes This session will support your decisions to develop effective learning environments (A4), engage you in the evaluation of professional practices (A5), help you develop your use of learning technologies (K4) along with methods for evaluating them (K5), and ultimately promote engagement with them (V2). After this session, you’ll know how to answer common questions like:

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Learning outcomes

This session will support your decisions to develop effective learning environments (A4), engage you in the evaluation of professional practices (A5), help you develop your use of learning technologies (K4) along with methods for evaluating them (K5),  and ultimately promote engagement with them (V2).

At the end of this session, you’ll know how to answer common questions like:

• Are students actually looking at the lecture notes and readings I provide?
• Which links are students ignoring, and what can be done about it?
• Can I see a view of usage for a particular activity or resource?
• Is there a way to help students to keep track of what they have done?
• How can I identify students who are struggling to keep up with the course?
• When did a student access my site? (Including the most frequently asked question: Did a student really experience technical problems all morning before the Turnitin deadline, or did they only start trying to upload at 1:59?)
• Can I get an overview of all my students’ grades?

Resources

https://prezi.com/z732cx7kyoeu/students-use-of-online-resources-what-moodle-reports-logs-can-tell-you/