Practical Visualization of Learning and Teaching Behaviour Patterns Using Moodle Blocks

Dashboards that illustrate the behaviour patterns of students and/or instructors can be enormously valuable for students and instructors. They can be used to promote self-reflection or support monitoring student activity. However, many dashboards simply display available data without considering whether this data is useful or supports learning success. In contrast, this research established useful visualizations based on underlying behavioural theories, developing three Moodle blocks as dashboards to explore the question: How to provide useful and understandable information about student and instructor behaviours in the form of instructor and student dashboards? While the focus of this paper is on the dashboard designs, this research is part of a larger project that uses artificial intelligence to (1) verify and depict the usefulness of the information presented with respect to its impact on student success, failure or dropout likelihood and (2) recommend alternative behaviour patterns for students and instructors to increase student success. The resulting dashboards are useful tools that allow students and instructors to self-monitor, encouraging behaviour changes that could lead to greater learning success.