LA projects

An overview of learning analytics (LA) projects can be found below. The projects are ordered by the group they are intended to support most directly.

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LA for teaching and learning professionals

  • C-LED

    Utrecht University strives to offer high-quality, personalized education. To enable teachers to adapt to students' interests and needs, we developed a dashboard that visualizes student engagement with course materials: C-LED (Course Learning Engagement Dashboard). The goal is to enable teachers to monitor students' progress in the course, to provide personalized recommendations for course materials, and to adapt their teaching strategies. 

  • Compass

    The Compass dashboard transforms e-module interaction data into insights, helping developers refine e-module content.

  • UpGrade

    Learning Analytics for Transparent Thesis Assessment

    Assessing master’s theses is a critical task in higher education. Even with detailed assessment rubrics, lecturers often have little insight into how their grading compares to that of colleagues or across programs. This lack of transparency can lead to uncertainty and inconsistencies in assessment. This project aims to address this challenge by developing an interactive visual analytics dashboard for assessing master’s theses at Utrecht University. 

  • Teacher dashboards to support primary school students’ SRL skills

    Developing self-regulation skills (SRL) is essential for learners. SRL involves various skills such as goal setting, self-monitoring and self-reflection. While adaptive learning technologies in primary schools help students practice math by adjusting difficulty, students must still monitor accuracy and select effort levels. Teachers play a critical role in supporting SRL development but often struggle to monitor students’ regulation and progress. This project provides teachers with visualizations of students’ regulation processes to enhance instruction, aiming to improve student learning and SRL skills. This project highlights the interplay between technology and teachers in fostering SRL.

  • DACE - A dashboard for course evaluation

    In this project a dashboard will be developed that combines insights from Caracal evaluations with other sources of information. In this dashboard, all relevant course information can be found. The goal of this project is to enable course coordinators to evaluate and (re)design their course based on the information in the dashboard.

  • Xerte teacher dashboard

    Xerte is an educational application offered by Utrecht University (UU) to teachers to create online modules (e-modules). The goal of this project is to improve the content of Xerte e-modules and adapt the course material based on so-called learning traces of students, such as how students answer questions in the e-modules. Based on this information, questions could be rephrased or specific feedback regarding the correct answer could be given. 

LA for students

  • The F-ACT dashboard

    The F-ACT dashboard has been specifically developed to address individual differences in academic writing competencies and support needs among students. The dashboard collects all the received assessments and feedback conveniently in one place and shows which competencies and related skills a student scores high and low on. This way the students know what they are doing well and where they need to pay more attention. In addition, the F-ACT dashboard provides a number of suggestions for resources the students can consult for each skill

  • Thermos project

    The overall goal is to support students in improving aspects of study behavior by: helping them to assess important aspects of study behavior, to communicate students’ study behavior profile to provide them with insight, and to help them develop through actionable feedback.

  • StudyLense project

    In this project, we explore different methods for personalized support of student motivation. In particular, we plan to look into social comparison as a vehicle to engage students’ with non-mandatory education content.

  • Assessment of students' statistics skills

    This project aimed to study and apply psychometric methods to obtain detailed diagnostic information about students’ skills from their item response data in the domain of statistics education. In addition, we aim to study effects of providing such diagnostic feedback on students’ learning processes.

LA for study advisors and tutors

  • SkillShape

    What if tutors could spot learning gaps before they become obstacles? The Pharmacy Master’s program is pioneering the SkillShape dashboard that transforms exam data into actionable insights—helping tutors guide students toward mastery and self-regulated learning. 

  • Study advisor dashboard

    The aim of this project is to develop a dashboard for study advisors that provides a clear overview of the students under their care, including their (potential) study delay.

LA for program directors

  • What study paths do students choose?

    Students usually have quite some options to choose from in terms of courses and the order in which to enroll in courses. At the bachelor program Earth Sciences, the program directors wanted to find out what study paths students choose. In collaboration with team Learning Analytics, analyses were performed to discover these paths.