Increase rates of satisfaction and student engagement with online classrooms from Moodlerooms, and actionable data from X-Ray Learning Analytics. Join Grant as he introduces Moodlerooms’ latest mobile-first Snap theme which user-friendly design removes barriers to online learning, enabling delivery of engaging content and activities in an intuitive manner. Also find out how Blackboard’s predictive analytics tool X-Ray Learning Analytics provides deep insights into student behaviour and identifies trends that can be used to improve student learning experiences. Presenters: Grant Beevers, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, APAC Blackboard

1. Innovation and Your Institution (Part 2) –
Open Source Roadmap
Grant Beevers
Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering APAC

2. Variables in Decision Making Process
The Gradebook
Mobile Access
Inadequate reporting
Poor user interface
Cumbersome Admin tasks
Site is too Slow
Continuous Training
Scroll of Death
Login Problems
Upgrade Issues
Clutter and Confusion
Housekeeping
Server OutagesFailed BackupsDatabase Crashes
Technical Support

3. A focus on
the learner
A delightful
new user experience
Integrated
data and analytics
Connected and tightly integrated
workflows
An accessible and always-on
environment
The New Learning Experience

4. Moodlerooms Solution
REPORTS
GRADER
SNAP
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
DESIGNER
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STREAMS & ALERTS
COURSE CONVERSION
CONDUIT
ADMIN PANEL
ENHANCED FEATURES
ADMIN FEATURES
CLOUD HOSTING
CODE MAINTENANCE
TRAINING
SUPPORT
COURSE CONVERSION
SERVICES
INTEGRATION
POSSIBILITIES
PLUGINS
REPORTS
GRADER
PERSONALIZED LEARNING DESIGNER
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STREAMS & ALERTS
REPORTS
CLOUD HOSTING
CODE MAINTENANCE
TRAINING
SUPPORT
COURSE CONVERSION
CUSTOMIZATION
IMPLEMENTATION

5. The Integrated Solution Moodlerooms
X-Ray
Kaltura
CollaborateMoodlerooms
--- SaaS + Cloud Delivery ---
--- Moodle ---
+ Snap (Responsive UI)
+ Enhanced Features
--- Services ---
Conduit
SIS Integration LMS
Video Management
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Moodle
Moodlerooms
Community
Vendor
Course-Level Analytics
Plugins
Synchronous
Content

6. Moodlerooms Solution
 Reliability – 99.9% SLA
 On-demand scalability
 24/7 Monitoring
 World-class infrastructure
 Automated Backup
 Hands-off updates
 Instant Security Patches
 Defense-In-Depth Security Methodology
 System and Data Security
 Administrator Support
 Knowledge Base manuals and tutorials
 TRAIN Packages
Hosting
Updates
Security
Support

7. Moodlerooms Feature Focus
• Snap Dashboard (Menu)
• PLD (Personal Learning Designer)
• Snap Course – notifications
(progress and deadlines) and ease
of course creation
• Reports
• Office 365 Integration

8. Forward-looking statement
Statements regarding our product development initiatives,
including new products and future product upgrades, updates or
enhancements represent our current intentions, but may be
modified, delayed or abandoned without prior notice and there is
no assurance that such offering, upgrades, updates or
functionality will become available unless and until they have
been made generally available to our customers.

9. What is happening in Moodle?
• Accessibility improvements
• New quiz questions (image
drag and drop)
• Moodle mobile
– Chats
– Choice
– Surveys
– SCORM
• Competency based
education
• Assignment grader
• Dashboard
• Recycle Bin
• Moodle mobile
• Quiz
• Assignment submissions
Moodle 3.0 (Released) Moodle 3.1 (Planning)

10. Moodlerooms Q1-Q2 Roadmap
• Bug fixes
• Updated Genius SIS
integration
• Sharing Cart plugin
• X-Ray headline data
In Development In Design In Research
• Moodle 3.0 Upgrade
• Site wide SSL
• Course reporting
Usability
• User dashboard
usability
• Navigational
usability (Snap)
• Collaborate
integration

11. Higher education market is evolving
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Big-data
in mainstream
Learner centric
education
Online and mobile
everywhere
Education
truly global
Consumer-preferences/
alternative models
Non-traditional
learners

12. Data and analytics are transforming other industries…
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Finance
130% improvement
in fraud identification for debit transactions
for global payments company
Healthcare
$30 billion
reduction
in industry care cost
from faster
identification
of high-risk coronary
heart disease patients
Transportation
360° view of customer
for improved customer experience and better
understanding of customer value by Avis

13. …but how can they impact top issues facing education?
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Presidents, Technology Leaders
and Faculty agree on the top three
challenges facing institutions:
58%
53%
48%
Rising costs
and decreasing revenue
Recruiting/
enrolling students
“Retaining students”
is the most critical issue

14. Analysing learning activity provides useful insights
Course: “Introduction to Religious Studies”
CSU Chico, Fall 2013 (n=373)
LMS usage is a predictor of
course achievement

15. What is Learning Analytics?
Learning and Knowledge
Analytics Conference, 2011
“ ...measurement, collection,
analysis and reporting of data about
learners and their contexts,
for purposes of understanding
and optimizing learning
and the environments
in which it occurs.”

16. X-Ray Analytics

17. What is X-Ray Analytics?
X-ray analytics is a predictive application
that:
• Provides deep insight into learning
behaviour
• Identifies important trends affecting
learner achievement
• Adds functionality to Moodle enabling
instructors to remedy achievement
issues in a timely manner

18. X-Ray is a Predictive Application that:
Instructors Administrators
• Identifies important trends
affecting learner achievement &
predicting at-risk students
• Adds functionality to Moodle
enabling instructors to remedy
achievement issues in a timely
manner
• Provides data-driven tools for
instructors to simplify course
facilitation and improve
experience of all students
• Enables administrators to compare
findings between courses and
departments

19. X-Ray provides a range of features . . .
• Analyses Social connectedness
• Calculates login regularity
• Analysis of discuss forum submissions
• Linguistic and word frequency analysis
• Comparative course analysis
• Embeds into Moodlerooms core interface

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Moodlerooms Learning Analytics Solutions
Core Moodle
Basic Reports from System Logs
Open Source Moodle Reporting Plugins
Create your own reports, or niche specific reports
Moodlerooms Reports
50+ Prebuilt Reports, Custom SQL Reporting,
Export to Excel
X-Ray Learning Analytics
Research Based, Predictive Reports based on
statistical analysis of LMS data
Power
AndCapability

21. Implementing X-Ray – 4 Key Phases
We connect your database to the X-Ray
Analytics Engine
Your
Database
We custom tune data models and
coefficients to your institution
We host training the trainer
orientations to help you understand X-
Ray functionality, reports and
visualisations
Follow-up web meetings,
faculty training, and strategic
engagements available
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3 4

22. X-Ray Analytics Feature Focus
Demonstration

23. Questions
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