The new Brightspace Insights pull the data into high-performance reports, comprehensive data visualizations, and predictive analytics to provide instructors with visibility into student issues at just the right time. Instructors can act immediately as real-time analytics are embedded into instructors’ workflows to make information timely, in-context, and actionable.
“Harnessing big data intelligently has transformed other industries, but in education, it hasn’t been used in real-time to help learners when they need it most,” said John Baker, President and CEO, D2L. “With today’s release, we’ve made it easier for instructors to predict and forecast learners at risk, to help them while they’re learning, not just by flagging issues at the end of a term. D2L’s new Brightspace Insights provides instructors with higher quality insights that will help raise completion rates, lead to improved outcomes, and encourage stronger engagement.”
“This release is a great advancement for all Brightspace users. With the previous version of our analytics product, instructors received information on learner success even before they took their first test. But it was only using data based on Brightspace tools. With the new Brightspace Insights, we can now deliver that same insight, but based on the entire ecosystem of learning tools,” said Nick Oddson, Senior Vice President, Product Development at D2L. “We now offer learning insights at the speed of data.”
The Brightspace Data Platform is the basis of Brightspace Insights and is a new big data platform designed to be near real-time, using cloud scale technologies. Built to enable instructors to see a 360-degree view of the student by aggregating the explosion of data from the entire ecosystem of learning tools, it’s designed to be an open platform, supporting a new set of APIs and common standards, including IMS Caliper and ODBC.
The Brightspace Data Platform and the new Brightspace Insights are built on the Brightspace security model, which meets or exceeds D2L customers’ security and privacy requirements.
More details about Brightspace Insights will be unveiled at Fusion 2015, the Brightspace Global Conference, on June 23rd in Orlando, Fla.
Material from a press release was used in this report.
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