Designing a Dashboard for Student Teamwork Analysis

TL;DR

This paper presents Concert, a data integration platform that aggregates student activity data from multiple sources to support classroom monitoring and team management in CS courses.

Contribution

It introduces a cross-platform data collection and visualization system for analyzing student teamwork in educational settings.

Findings

Effective team visualizations aid instructors in identifying groups needing intervention.

Integration of multiple data sources provides a comprehensive view of student activities.

Supports better management of student collaboration in CS courses.

Abstract

Classroom dashboards are designed to help instructors effectively orchestrate classrooms by providing summary statistics, activity tracking, and other information. Existing dashboards are generally specific to an LMS or platform and they generally summarize individual work, not group behaviors. However, CS courses typically involve constellations of tools and mix on- and offline collaboration. Thus, cross-platform monitoring of individuals and teams is important to develop a full picture of the class. In this work, we describe our work on Concert, a data integration platform that collects data about student activities from several sources such as Piazza, My Digital Hand, and GitHub and uses it to support classroom monitoring through analysis and visualizations. We discuss team visualizations that we have developed to support effective group management and to help instructors identify teams in need of intervention.