A Graphical Tool for Monitoring the Usage of Modules in Course Management Systems

摘要

This paper proposes an approach to graphically represent the tracking data in Course Management Systems in order to mine and discover the usage of specific software modules. We have implemented a tool that aims to give, at a glance, a visual representation of the usage of a specific module in all the courses managed by the Course Management System. The tool also allows comparing the usage in different courses, and seeing the distribution of the usage over time. This information is useful to administrators of the Course Management System that have to know how much the modules have been used in courses. But also, it could be useful to instructional designers that have to design, plan, and evaluate the learning needs in institutions.