Monitorización de la actividad y rendimiento de los alumnos en Moodle para su análisis visual

Zusammenfassung

Teaching on online learning platforms requires tea- chers to analyze student activity and performance on course learning objects. All virtual learning environ- ments implement a module to collect this information. But this raw data needs to be processed to facilitate the analysis of learning and help the teacher in making de- cisions in his or her teaching process. In this paper we present a new desktop application that accesses the re- cords and grades of students in a Moodle instance, allo- wing the monitoring of their activity and performance. The application organizes and summarizes this data, including its visual analysis from different perspecti- ves. The application, which is open source and free to use, has been institutionally validated through the teacher training institute, on a group of teachers with formal online and face-to-face teaching. As a final re- sult, its use is described, analyzing with real use cases how to help improve teaching. We address issues such as detecting dropouts, comparing activity among stu- dents, checking the quality of activities or the learning sequence that students follow.