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 with interactive tables and 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. 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.
Users 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: a Course Dashboard, At-Risk Learners Dashboard, and Individual Learner Dashboard.
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 Superset 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 using their Open edX account without having to create a separate Superset account.
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 their entire instance.
Site operators can even use Aspects to create and share custom dashboards and charts in Superset beyond what is provided out of the box with the plugin.
Aspects Dashboard Functionality
Dive deeper into the data with interactive charts that can be cross-filtered
All Aspects Dashboards allow users to dig deeper into their data through cross-filters. With cross-filters, a user can apply the same filter to multiple charts and tables in a dashboard at once. For example, if a user adds a cross-filter for a single video on the Video Engagement tab of the Course Dashboard, all applicable video tables and charts will update to show data only for that video.
Download tables and images from Aspects dashboards
Users can easily download the data used to create any chart or table in an Aspects dashboard in tabular format as a CSV or Excel file or download the table or chart as an image for use in their own documents, presentations, or reports.