{"id":5986,"date":"2017-04-04T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:21:55","slug":"enhanced-analytics-mahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2017\/04\/04\/enhanced-analytics-mahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced Analytics in Mahara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cTape Measure\u201d by Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence<\/p><\/div>\n

The reporting capabilities within the leading open source eportfolio solution Mahara<\/a> will be fundamentally enhanced in a future release as a result of a project led by the University of Sussex and Dublin City University <\/a>(DCU). \u00a0The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Catalyst Fund makes funding available to universities to stimulate innovation in practice across the HE sector and the development of innovative solutions. \u00a0Supported by the <\/span>Catalyst Fund<\/span><\/a>, the Advanced Analytics in Mahara project (<\/span>https:\/\/aaimproject.com\/<\/span><\/a>) aims to provide more fine grained insights into how portfolios are used over time, and how learners engage with them with a view to supporting evidence-informed use across disciplines in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capturing requirements<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As openness and collegiality have been central tenets of the project, the project team have captured requirements from the wider HE community in order to deliver outputs that are beneficial across the sector and encourage wider engagement in the use of eportfolios in support of student learning and assessment. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The scoping exercise elicited responses from universities in the UK, Australia, Czech Republic, Ireland and Switzerland. This produced data on potential enhancements that might be made to support learning analytics within the system. \u00a0Synthesis of this data by the Project Team, combined with input from an expert Reference Group providing further direction on the proposed developments, resulted in identification of categories of data which would be of value to institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

New reports in Mahara<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"As a result of this requirements exercise, the AAIM Project has engaged Catalyst<\/a> to develop enhanced analytics capabilities in Mahara. \u00a0The four core categories of reporting to emerge include:<\/span><\/p>\n