Readings Online: Educator insights

We have recently made available a new feature called Educator Insights. This feature provides teaching staff with the ability to review real time statistics regarding the degree of student engagement with resources on their Reading List.

Educator Insights also provides a count of Active Students, Student Access between Reading Importance and Reading Kind, Resource Count, Student Engagement and Unique Student Access.

Educator Insights has several tools available to teaching staff. These tools are easily accessible by clicking on the new icons that now appear in the academics view of their reading list.

The tools are:

Active Student Count

Provides teaching staff with the ability to display a count of Active Students who are accessing the resources. This tool will only provide a count (not the student details) of the total number of students who have accessed a resource on the reading list while it is active. This count will only increase if a student who has not previously accessed a resource, accesses a resource for the first time.

Student Access

Provides a drop-down which will give teaching staff the ability to show overall reading list access split by resource importance (required and recommended) and by resource kind (link or file). Each of the rows in the table will also provide the total access counts for both the resource importance and resource kind.

Resource Count

Provides teaching staff with the ability to view the total overall resource count on their reading list split into resource importance (required and recommended).

Engagement Analytics

Provides teaching staff with the ability to show active students across the reading list. The dropdown will display a graph that outlines the number of students who have accessed a certain number of resources. Teaching staff can also select required or recommended resources which will change the graph display to show the relevant information for that selected resource importance.

Student Unique Access

Provides teaching staff with a clickable icon on each of the individual resources on their reading list which will display each student and their unique access. It will display the student name along with how many times that student has downloaded that resource. At the bottom of that list, it will display a list of students who have not accessed that resource. With this new information, teaching staff will be able to identify the degree of student engagement among their cohort of students and identify any low engagement or at-risk students.