Integrated Analytic dashboard for virtual evaluation laboratories and collaborative forums

This paper presents a new Learning Analytics dashboard which integrates all the information gathered by a virtual evaluation laboratory deployed at our institution and, also, the collaborative evaluation forums used by students in our courses. As an example, a subject focused on the configuration of network services has been chosen to implement our approach. Our proposal will be able to graphically show the students' progress both in an experimental and collaborative way at the same time. Therefore, lecturers can guide each student through the learning process based on his/her particular knowledge-level and grade her/him at the end of the term. Some specific techniques are needed by the system, in our case Learning Analytics techniques are used, in order to observe the students' behavior and their level of proficiency. In particular, a set of evaluation events for each activity, the students' social network, the students' timeline for their activities and some relevant metrics associated to them are given.