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Learning analytics

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Transform your student experience with learning analytics.

Contact your account manager to get started

General enquiries:

  • data.analytics@jisc.ac.uk
  • 0333 015 1165

About learning analytics

Working collaboratively with universities and expert community groups, we’ve designed a suite of co-created learning analytics solutions, developed with the HE sector for the HE sector.

The learning analytics core service pulls together data from your institution’s various student data streams, organises it and translates it into informative visualisations. This guidance helps you to better understand student engagement, improve teaching and the overall student experience.

Putting students and institutions at the heart of what we do, our learning analytical services will transform your students learning experience by driving engagement, helping them to achieve their potential and improve overall retention. Supporting both student and staff wellbeing and progression, learning analytics fits seamlessly into your existing architecture to deliver instant results.

We offer practical, cost-effective solutions to get your learning analytics projects underway. Providing the digital architecture, tools, expert guidance and technical support you need to reach your goals.

Who is learning analytics for?

Your students

Our study goal app allows students to champion and manage their own learning experiences. Providing opportunities for timely conversations with their tutors using real-time data insights. Help your students to better understand their own learning behaviours and achieve the results they want.

Tutors, teaching and support staff

Using descriptive data analysis and aggregated data modelling the traffic light system helps tutors, teachers and support staff to identify at-risk students through early intervention, enhancing your students experience.

Tutors gain a deeper understanding of how students behave and interact with the curriculum through detailed and timely reports. Our learning analytics services will help you to deliver a more personalised learning experience through assessing your learning techniques, virtual learning environment (VLE) and course design.

Higher education institutions

Improve student wellbeing, increase retention and build healthier communications between students and teaching staff through data-informed business decisions. Jisc’s learning analytics solutions will help to improve your institutional performance, financial resilience and boost your institution's reputation.

See our senior managers' guide to find out how to assess your institutional readiness for learning analytics.

IT leaders

Our learning analytics service provides the architecture, tools and specialist support to streamline and extract the most value from your data sources. Hosted on a secure server, our learning data hub will be the central storehouse for all your data needs.

We will work with you on selecting and integrating data sources, cleaning, configuring products and interpreting the data to ensure you get the best possible outcomes. Our products are interoperable with other technological solutions, giving you the freedom to develop your learning analytics framework.

Benefits of learning analytics

  • A complete end-to-end and interoperable learning analytics solution, giving you the ability to innovate
  • Mitigate risks and make confident data-informed decisions
  • Ethical, legal and security frameworks and guidance
  • Opportunity to enhance communications between your students and staff providing early intervention capabilities to prioritise wellbeing and support
  • Greater autonomy and independence for students to champion their own personalised learning goals
  • Improved student retention and financial resilience
  • Quick, easy reporting solutions for all user groups, saving you time and money on unnecessary resources
  • Access to our expert community groups and dedicated account managers to help you progress faster, with confidence

“[In the future]…we’ll be taking all that we’re getting from learning analytics and tying it into a much clearer understanding of how best to teach students. Modern techniques are changing – they’re more student-driven and we’ll be able to judge that using learning analytics.”

Dr Christine Couper, University of Greenwich

What's included in the core learning analytics suite

Ethical guidance and support

We will work with you to get your ethical, legal and security groundwork right. Our learning analytics code of practice guide will help you to plan and implement your analytics work – and the human interactions that result – with the informed consent and cooperation of students.

It will be your guide as you develop transparent institutional policies that set out what you want to achieve, what data you’re collecting, how you’re using it and how students will benefit. Use it to make sure you’ve got the key legal, ethical and logistical issues sorted.

Our learning analytics service employs a cloud-hosted, resilient system that will enable you to engage with analytics with confidence. We’ll work with you to ensure the data you store complies with your own institutional policies, is General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant, and is processed within the European Economic Area. Your data is secured against misuse.

Read the learning analytics data protection impact assessment (pdf).

Learning data hub

Our cloud-based storage solution for all your student records data.

Jisc’s learning data hub sits at the heart of our learning analytics solution and supports integration with complementary products and services. Hosted on Amazon Web Service (AWS), secure, resilient servers in the UK and EU providing a cost-effective and convenient solution, while helping you to remain GDPR compliant.

Data explorer dashboard

A dashboard management tool that brings your institution's multiple data sources together. Using the RAG (red/amber/green) traffic light system, which rates student activity at module and course level, you can quickly interpret engagement such as VLE usage, attendance and assessment through easy to understand data visualisations.

Use your dashboard to identify at-risk students with timely interventions and uncover how students are engaging with their learning environment to identify under-performing areas of the curriculum.

Study goal app

An app for students enabling them to access richer information and timely feedback about their learning experiences. The data insights will help them to better understand their academic progress, learning behaviours and level of engagement.

It encourages them to take control and champion their own learning by setting their own goals and benchmarking themselves against their peers.

The study goal app offers an efficient and cost-effective way to monitor attendance in lectures and ensures students feel they are getting a more personalised service to help them achieve more.

Member story: "Learning analytics is helping us improve the student experience”

Find out how the University of South Wales is developing its Student Engagement Active Monitoring (STEAM) service. This uses the data collection and monitoring systems within their learning analytics service, supplementing the usual data with new information, including use of Microsoft Teams and a local attendance system that records work placements.

Read the full story (pdf).

Find out more

To find out more or to get started, contact your account manager.

Contact your account manager

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Resources

  • Senior managers' guide to learning analytics
    Find out how to assess your institutional readiness for learning analytics, build a business case, assess its impact and more with this in-depth guide
  • Learning analytics service data protection impact assessment (DPIA) (pdf)
  • Expert LA community group 
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  • Data analytics blog
    Visit our blog for the latest stories, news and updates
  • Code of practice for learning analytics
    A vital resource to help you plan and implement a learning analytics solution and ensure you’ve got everything covered
     

Frameworks, DPS and procurement

​See our approved framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS) to help you save time and money.

Additional learning analytics solutions

Discovery and consultancy

New to learning analytics? Discovery is our expert consultancy service designed to help higher education institutions navigate their way through the challenges that come with considering a learning analytics solution.

Find out more about discovery and consultancy.

Checkin+

Provides your organisation with a hardware-free, seamless solution for student attendance monitoring. Checkin+ connects to the core learning analytics service, producing meaningful insights so you can proactively monitor student attendance, attainment and achievements whether learning online or on campus.

Find out more about Checkin+.

ISO certification

This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 and ISO27001 certificates.

Read more about International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards and view Jisc certificates.

ISO9001 with UK National Accreditation
ISO27001 with UKAS

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