Science Faculty: Use of Statistics eTool to assess student online activity

Science Faculty: Use of Statistics eTool to assess student online activity

Monday, May 4, 2020

The Deputy-Dean of Science, Prof David Holgate makes use of the ‘Statistics eTool’ to monitor and track student activity within his Mathematics module (MAM115).  He has shared his recent statistics around student visits retrieved from the iKamva site.

•   “Over 90% have visited the site, but more encouragingly about 75% have visited at least 4 times with the median number of visits over 7 in the 10 day period”.

The lecturer has commented with regards to the encouraging statistics. However he emphasises the fact that some “students are falling through the cracks”, as they have no access.

**All lecturers have been advised to add the ‘Statistics eTool’ to their online modules. The statistics tool will enable them to track user activity within each module. Hence, they will be able to identify active and inactive students.

The Statistics eTool within iKamva records user activities. It allows authorised users (typically instructors, lecturers or site owners) to view site usage statistics and user/student activity events. These summary reports present a quick overview of site usage. The Statistics eTool initial overview page allows the lecturer to view a summary of user/tool activity information (e.g. Visits; Activity; Resources; and Lesson Page).