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Flexible Assessments in Canvas – Gabriel Smith (Apr 18, 2024) 

In this LAVA session (April 18th 2-3ish pm), Gabriel Smith from the Faculty of Land & Food Systems will present a custom Canvas integration that allows students to decide how assessments in a course will be weighted within ranges defined by the instructor and applies those weights to their final grades. He will be discussing … Continue reading "Flexible Assessments in Canvas – Gabriel Smith (Apr 18, 2024)"

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(08/04/2024 21:35)

UBC LA Hackathons – Alison, Craig, Justin (Feb 15, 2024) 

For this week’s LAVA Meeting (Feb 15, 2024, 2pm) we will continue meeting on Zoom. In this session, Alison, Craig, and Justin will be looking for some feedback on our Hackathon LAK Practitioner report. I will be sharing the paper shortly (and apologise in advance for a bunch of LAVA notifications!). For those of you … Continue reading "UBC LA Hackathons – Alison, Craig, Justin (Feb 15, 2024)"

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(15/02/2024 20:36)

Does chatGPT “know” about Learning Analytics? Let’s find out! (Dec 21, 2023) 

This month’s LAVA meeting will even be more informal than most – but for those of you online before the holidays, I couldn’t not have at least one chatGPT themed LAVA session to wrap up 2023. My question is – what does chatGPT “know” about Learning Analytics? Let’s find out! Homework: send me (or prepare) … Continue reading "Does chatGPT “know” about Learning Analytics? Let’s find out! (Dec 21, 2023)"

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(02/12/2023 00:52)

The IKEA Model – Developing a Custom Learning Analytics Dashboard – Dr. Leah Macfadyen and Alison Myers (Oct 19, 2023) 

In this week’s meeting Leah Macfadyen and Alison will be sharing work that we’ve dubbed “The IKEA Model”. Initially developed as a Directed Study in the MET program, the goal was to build an instructor-facing learning analytics dashboard using data that is accessible from Canvas by an instructor. The “project” includes a series of steps … Continue reading "The IKEA Model – Developing a Custom Learning Analytics Dashboard – Dr. Leah Macfadyen and Alison Myers (Oct 19, 2023)"

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(12/10/2023 22:56)

Publishing Analytics with Quarto – Dr. Stephan Koenig (Dec 1, 2022) 

In this LAVA session, Dr. Stephan Koenig will be leading us through the use of the open source publication tool, Quarto. Presentation slides from this session can be found at:https://stephan-koenig.github.io/lava-quarto/   From Stephan: Description: An essential part of analytics is the communication of insights to colleagues and stakeholders. In this LAVA session, we will look at Quarto, … Continue reading "Publishing Analytics with Quarto – Dr. Stephan Koenig (Dec 1, 2022)"

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(01/12/2022 16:00)

How We Use Canvas APIs – Alison Myers (Oct 6, 2022) 

In this week’s LAVA meeting Alison shared how Sauder Learning Services takes advantage of Canvas APIs. Alison is a Research Analyst in the Sauder Learning Services team. The team supports our faculty’s use of technology in their teaching practice. In her role, she attempts to understand what data is available and can be used to … Continue reading "How We Use Canvas APIs – Alison Myers (Oct 6, 2022)"

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(07/10/2022 00:17)

Providing Actionable Information for Students – Dr. Fatemeh Salehian (Aug 4, 2022) 

In our August 4th LAVA meeting, we will be hearing from Dr. Fatemeh Salehian. Fatemeh is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information at UBC. She is currently affiliated to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of South Australia. She has been working on learning analytics projects for over seven … Continue reading "Providing Actionable Information for Students – Dr. Fatemeh Salehian (Aug 4, 2022)"

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(28/07/2022 19:46)

Teamable Analytics: A Team Formation and Analytics Tool – Dr. Bowen Hui (May 5, 2022) 

This week we will be hearing from Dr. Bowen Hui. Dr. Hui is Associate Professor of Teaching & Associate Head of Undergraduate Affairs (CMPS) in the Computer Science program at UBCO. From Bowen: Teamable Analytics: A Team Formation and Analytics Tool Forming effective teams for large classes is a challenge for educators due to the … Continue reading "Teamable Analytics: A Team Formation and Analytics Tool – Dr. Bowen Hui (May 5, 2022)"

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(28/04/2022 19:29)

Student Flows Project – Annay Slabikowska & Craig Thompson (Apr 7, 2022) 

This week’s LAVA session [Thursday April 7, 2-3pm, Zoom] will be led by Annay Slabikowska (PAIR) and Craig Thompson (CTLT), who will present recent work on the Student Flows Project. From Annay and Craig: The project is collaboration between the Learning Analytics and Planning and Institutional Research teams and the Faculty of Science, including contributions … Continue reading "Student Flows Project – Annay Slabikowska & Craig Thompson (Apr 7, 2022)"

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(07/04/2022 22:01)

Investigating Preparedness for Calculus and the Academic Essentials Program – Warren Code (Mar 3, 2022) 

This week (Thursday, 2-3pm, Zoom) our LAVA session will be led by Warren Code, the Associate Director at Skylight. From Warren: Running for the six weeks from early July to the start of Jumpstart in mid-August, the Academic Essentials program ( https://you.ubc.ca/academic-essentials/ ) launched in Summer 2020 as a set of three optional Canvas courses intended to … Continue reading "Investigating Preparedness for Calculus and the Academic Essentials Program – Warren Code (Mar 3, 2022)"

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(03/03/2022 20:59)

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