Annotation Profile Follow learners as they bookmark content, highlight selected text, and tag digital resources. Analyze annotations to better assess learner engagement, comprehension and satisfaction with the materials assigned.

Which segments of text are being highlighted?

What types of annotations are being created?

Who is posting most often? Which posts create the most replies?

Session Profile

Does overall time spent reading correlate with assessment scores? Are particular viewing patterns/habits predictive of student success? What are the average viewing patterns of students? Do they differ between courses, course sections, instructors, or student demographics?

I have been arguing for some time that Caliper should be used as a data interoperability exchange standard between apps that operates through the LTI window

And that, in fact, is a pretty good description of the IMS standard in development called Caliper, which is why I am so interested in it. In my recent post about walled gardens from the series that Jonathan mentions in his own post, I tried to spell out how Caliper could enable either a better LMS, a better world without an LMS, or both simultaneously.

Currently, Canvas and Sakai are the only LMSs reviewed which has somesupport for xAPI (emphasis on some). Blackboard, D2L, Sakai and Canvas all have support for IMS Caliper, a more edu specific format.

Shaping the Educational Technology Innovation Ecosystem

The privacy dashboard discloses to students the learning data being captured about them and how it is being used (such as for research and/or early warning tools).

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of the standard-in-development.

read by any Caliper-compliant system

Caliper WordPress plugin