[Building Sakai] Analyzing and finding metrics in sakai data.

[Mathieu Plourde]

Hi Chris,

You should look at the work of the Sakai Open Academic Analytics
Initiative, funded by a NGLC grant. Despite the confusing name, it works in
the Sakai CLE.

See:

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/NGLCOAA/Home+-+Open+Academic+Analytics+Initiative+%28OAAI%29

CCed Josh Baron.

Mathieu
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Chris Ribble <cribble at uwindsor.ca> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It has recently been discussed amongst our group that we don't seem to
> have a solid analytical assessment on how our Sakai system is being used.
> While brainstorming possible ways to quantify the use of the system as a
> whole and in parts we decided to put out a feeler to see if anyone else has
> done something similar.
>
> We have some ideas on how to implement these types of measurements but
> want to see if others are capturing areas that we may not be. So far we've
> come up with a few things we would like to measure:
>
> Tool usage - How many students use a tool in a site, how many instructors
> have the tool in their site and is it useful( We also aren't sure how to
> define 'use', is it a certain number of assignments, or a certain number of
> posts in a forum etc ?)
>         --> Spawning from that we will pull in information from our
> registrar system to cross with demographics to find out where to focus
> training.
> Peak system access dates/times - to help with scheduling maintenance and
> upgrades.
> Tool activity - how busy or load intensive is a tool.
>
> We're really only scratching the surface at this point, but I figured
> seeing what the community had to offer would also help us get our ball
> rolling.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> Chris Ribble
> LMS Application Developer
> Information Technology Services
> University of Windsor
>
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