ABSTRACT

A growing range of products is marketed as having learning analytics capabilities. Given the wide variety of potential applications for learning analytics, including early alert, course recommendation, adaptive learning and curriculum design, no single platform can meet all possible requirements. A few products sit within the learning management system (LMS), look at LMS data only and provide simple indications of a student's progress, raising flags when the student appears to be at risk. The products include Blackboard Retention Centre, which is an integral part of the Blackboard Learn LMS and the Moodle plug-in Engagement Analytics. In the UK, Tribal developed a learning analytics product alongside their student information system (SIS), SITS:Vision, with the University of Wolverhampton and now provides through Jisc's learning analytics architecture. As learning analytics develops, systems customers will increasingly require systems to make their learning activity data available in the emerging standard formats.