This article will show you time and frequency analytics in Claned: what they are and how you can use them when analyzing your course. Time and Frequency reports focus on the amount of time learners spend studying and how often they view the material.
Study Time – Explaining Graphs
“Study time” and “study frequency” graphs share a format. At the bottom of the graph is a slider that allows you to select and adjust the time window you’re viewing.The time frame slider can be moved by clicking and dragging in the central area. The range of time can be adjusted by clicking and dragging the brackets. You can also specify a time range to view by inputting start and end dates located in the upper left corner of the time and frequency graphs window.
Along the bottom of the graph are the dates/time of the study events, and the vertical axis represents the study time in minutes. The purple shows the general trend or average study time based on all learners across the selected time frame.
Black circles with a ”+” represent individual learners and can be clicked to expand an individual‘s details, including how long or how may sessions have been spent on a particular content, and how their time compares to overall or average trends.
Study Time – In Detail
Now let’s take a closer look at the reports available in Study Time. As mentioned previously you can open and individual learners study report for mor indepth report on their study time by clicking one of the black dots with a “+” symbol on the graph. Hovering your cursor over the dot will reveal the learner’s name.
In the example you can see the report on the learner Shaun Joyce. On the right is the quick break down of their total time spent studying board content, and how that compares to the average time spent by all learners. On the left side is the breakdown of the individual board contents, how long they spent on each and the relation of this number to the overall average per article.
Study Frequency
Now let’s take a closer look at the reports available in Study frequency. Study Frequency reports look and behave very similarly to Study Time reports, except instead of looking at the time spent viewing course materials, we are looking at the number of visits or “sessions” a learner makes to study materials.
Why might this be important? Well, by getting a sense of how many times a learner visits specific content we can begin to get a sense of if the content is enjoyable or unenjoyable, too difficult or too easy, interesting or uninteresting.
Here we can see the frequency report for a specific learner, Maryanne Dalton. On the right is a summary of the total number of “sessions” and its relation to the group average, and on the left is the detailed breakdown of what articles they viewed, how many times they opened it, and how it compares to the overall average.
Accumulated Study Time
In the image below you can see a view of the “Accumulated Study Time” report. This report simply shows the accumulated time a learner spends on the platform.
It’s a handy way to track learners’ engagement with the course in general and can be used to identify learners in danger of not succeeding (perhaps something is preventing them from being able to study) and intervene.
In this example we can see that Vesa, Petri, and Victor have logged substantially less time than the other learners. Thus, it may be a good idea to check in with them about what support or guidance can be provided to help get them back on track.