5 min

Funded contribution updates

Ty Hob

• New ClickHouse / Superset expert in the works to do schema / performance review and security pass

  • Possibility to re-contract with Rory and/or add another person to work on reports as v1 requirements land

15 mins

Aspects product updates

Chelsea Rathbun

• Updates on stakeholder interviews, common themes, and plans to move Aspects forward
  Respondents so far:

  • Manage 100-400 courses on Open edX for 10-10k learners

  • Use analytic data to improve course content, assessments, enrollment rates, inter- and intra-course recommendations, and learner outcomes.

  • Current pain points: difficult to know where learner activity is happening in a course, identifying and targeting communication to at-risk learners

  • Commonly requested learner demographic data (geography, gender, age)

  • Commonly requested visualizations: heat maps, scatter plots.

  • Interesting requests: identifying common questions from forum posts, content/video segments that learners revisit

  • Some use cases may drive non-Aspects work.

• Igor Degtiarov raised “leaderboard” and “learner inactivity” reports for motivating learners.

10 mins

Aspects technical updates

Ty Hob

• Localization is in, waiting for translations!

• Load test tooling is being worked on to support large scale testing

• Help text updates

• Fixes to problem event parsing

20 mins

Event bus discussion pt 2

Ty Hob

• Tracking events are coming to the the bus, Cristhian Garcia has landed the first PR, one more to go

  • Then an additional PR for event-routing-backends / Aspects to be able to use it

• Interesting conversation with WGU about using the bus for analytics

• Hoping for a temperature check with a larger group about whether folks are interested in adopting the bus, and for what purposes