Quercus Data Insights: A New Dashboard Tool to Analyze Student Activity

Facilitators: 
Alan da Silveira Fleck, Data Analyst, Learning Analytics, Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education
William Heikoop, Coordinator, Digital Learning Innovation
Cora Mccloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI

The University’s learning analytics initiative has developed a series of dashboards designed to visualize course-level student activity data within Quercus. These visualizations serve as a valuable resource for instructors, enabling them to gain deeper insights into student engagement and behaviour, such as:

• Identifying peak student activity times and engagement patterns.
• Tracking when course elements are first accessed or reviewed.
• Analyzing pre-class preparation by monitoring engagement with readings.
• Comparing engagement levels across different time frames.
• Identifying past student activity patterns that can inform future course design.

In this introductory workshop, participants will learn about:

• The scope and goals of Quercus Data Insights.
• Dashboard functionalities and capabilities.
• Formulating meaningful questions based on student activity data.
• Accessing additional supporting resources.
• Complementing dashboard insights with information available in  Quercus New Analytics

Workshop participants will gain access to a historical dashboard, which will contain data from courses for which they were instructors over the past 24 months (data available from September 2022 to August 2024).