The Product and Engineering Teams from eduNEXT and Axim Collaborative are thrilled to introduce Aspects Reports for course delivery teams and site operators! Aspects Reports will be made available alongside the Redwood release via a tutor plugin.
What are Aspects Reports?
Aspects Reports provide access to near real-time course and instance data through dashboards and interactive charts.
Aspects Reports for Course Delivery Teams
With Aspects, course delivery teams have ready access to vital learner enrollment, engagement, and performance data for each of their courses as well as insight into course content performance all within the LMS.
In addition to course-wide data, Aspects Reports surface course activity data for individual learners and learners that may be at-risk of not completing the course based on a set of predefined risk factors. When installing the plugin, site operators can choose whether or not to show limited personally identifiable information (PII) to course delivery teams. On Open edX instances that choose to show limited PII to course delivery teams, staff and admin users will have access to the names, usernames, and email addresses of individual and at-risk learners making targeted communication and learner intervention possible.
Aspects Reports for Site Operators and Superusers
Site operators can view data about their whole Open edX instance in Superset, a third-party data visualization tool used to create and display the existing Aspects dashboards and charts. Users can access directly via a link from the Aspects Reports in the LMS using single sign-on authorization. Using single sign on allows users to access Superset directly without having to create an additional account to access Superset.
Once in Superset, site operators can view a course dashboard, at-risk learner dashboard, individual dashboard for any course on their instance as well as an operator dashboard that displays information about the whole instance. Site operators can even use Aspects to create custom dashboards and charts in Superset beyond what is provided out of the box with the plugin.
Access Aspects Reports directly from the LMS
Course delivery teams and site operators can easily access Aspects Reports directly from the Open edX LMS via a new Reports link on the Instructor Dashboard, so that there’s no need to navigate elsewhere to gain valuable insight into exactly what’s going on in a given course.
On the Reports tab in the LMS, users can navigate between three new dashboards designed specifically for course authors and course teams looking to access quick and easy to glean engagement, enrollment, and performance data from one course at a time.