Learning analytics

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. Learning analytics will support your organisation's transformation into a data led and data literate institution.

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.

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.

Our study goal app allows students to 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.

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.

Discovery is our vendor agnostic expert consultancy service designed to help higher education institutions navigate their way through the challenges that come with considering a learning analytics solution. Alternatively, we can evaluate an existing project or help you restart on the journey.

Find out more about discovery and consultancy.

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.

Learning data hub direct provides an option for standalone access to the hub if you are looking to use your own in-house dashboards.

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.

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.

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.

Responding to the post-pandemic sector, it can manage in-person, online and hybrid attendance. Integrations allow it to work with timetabling systems and capture additional events outside the curriculum such as careers or study skills sessions. The system offers reporting for UKVI purposes, which can also utilise online student engagement data via the core learning analytics service. Hybrid attendance monitoring is built in to enable capture and reporting of teaching delivery mode. 

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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.

As part of the onboarding process, we will supply a template data protection impact assessments and draft learning analytics policy.

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