Experience in monitoring the educational activities of students

DOI: 10.31673/2518-7678.2021.017582

Abstract

Today, digital technologies allow creating and operated a virtual (online) platform that facilitates synchronous and asynchronous interaction with available resources between all parties to the learning process. In distance or blended learning, students independently organize, control, direct and regulate their activities. At the same time, monitoring, in particular by the teacher, plays a crucial role in creating internal feedback and, thus, in adopting appropriate rules. However, students may have unsatisfactory self-regulated learning outcomes due to poor monitoring. Therefore, external feedback between all actors involved in the various electronic learning management platforms is important. The article analyzes the possibilities of monitoring the educational activities of students in the study of disciplines in the system of higher education for technical and economic specialties. The main components of the study and the possibility of obtaining information about the activity and success of student learning in the learning management systems Moodle and Microsoft Teams are considered. A detailed description of obtaining information about the student's actions on the page of the discipline in the Moodle system using the blocks "Action Reports" and "Monitoring" are presented. Opportunities for monitoring all active student groups with which the teacher works, using the Insights tab and other Microsoft Teams applications are presented. The mechanisms of obtaining statistical information about the work of students during classroom and extracurricular work are described.

Keywords: analytics, monitoring of educational activities, Moodle, Microsoft Teams, Insights.

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