Enabling comparisons of LMS usage across institutions,

platforms and time

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What is the Indicators project?

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The Indicators is a research project aims to build on and extend prior work in the analysis of usage data from Learning Management Systems

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Blackboard

300M+ records

Moodle

10M+records

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Student results

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Indicators Database

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Library Resources

Student Support Systems

Dashboards

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