LMS Reporting

Consider the LMS explored during the Navigate skill. Then, in your blog, discuss the following: What are the options for grade reporting? Are there various levels? Which levels remain most valuable for the online instructor in regard to student performance?

Options for Grade Reporting:

• Student Level – Student data can result in a report view that indicates the number of times a student accesses a course, attempts a quiz, visited content, or used a particular tool. The reports can aggregate across students in a course, and this data can be informative about the effectiveness of the online course.
• Teacher Level – A report may look at course grades per course offering or across semesters/sessions to indicate positive or negative results per teacher, as well as overall material within the course’s effectiveness. A teacher may look at their own data or their students’ data for differentiation or evaluation of their teaching methods.
• Course Level – Course level analytics are helpful to evaluate and re-design course materials and assessments.
• Program Level – Program level data is used to evaluate the effectiveness in aggregate of the successes and failures of programs to inform administrators of areas for improvement.

The two most important levels to a teacher would be Student Level and Teacher Level.  Program Level is primarily for administrators; teachers simply do not have this omni-presence for the organization.

The student level can actually show if students are active in the course.  It is a great way to determine if a teacher or administrator needs to drop a student.  Because the analytics at this level show tool usage, this information could be something a teacher uses in planning his/her next course.

Teacher level helps a teacher self-assess himself or herself as an instructor.  It also can potentially identify problem areas or areas that may need re-addressing.  Students change, so the need to offer content and culturally relevant material could be determined for this analytical data.

Course level may be helpful to the teacher to determine if content needs to be re-designed or re-positioned.  Again, students change, and what works for one class may not be as helpful to another.  Culturally relevant curriculum and appropriate scaffolding dictates this part of data.  The relevancy of information from the state probably also changes this tool.

Most valuable are the Student, Teacher, and Course level.