Learning Analytics Briefly
The below figure shows the imc Learning Analytics components briefly.
imc Learning Analytics briefly
The details are described in the following.
SaaS Cloud Service
imc Learning Analytics is a new cloud service provided by imc. Microsoft Power BI Embedded is provided by Microsoft as cloud service only. By using imc Learning Analytics as SaaS by imc, customers take full advantage of cloud solutions: Automated scaling of service performance even for high workload on peaks, lower cost through usage as shared service, outsourced hosting responsibility by imc experts for your convenience, to just name a few.
The hosting service for imc learning Suite as well as imc Learning Analytics including the hosting of Microsoft Power BI embedded is fully provided by imc. We stay as single contact for the hosting scenario.
Embedded Microsoft Power BI
imc Learning Analytics has been fully integrated in imc Learning Suite. That means you can directly take advantage of the Power BI function set from within imc Learning Suite. imc will setup a Microsoft Power BI workspace for you and provide you with a Microsoft Power BI Pro account to access and manage the workspace. Regarding Power BI itself please refer to https://powerbi.microsoft.com .
In addition to that Microsoft Power BI hosted in Microsoft Azure; it provides best connectivity for usage scenario on global scale. Please refer to Learning Analytics Report PowerBI for more details on the integration of Microsoft Power BI.
Dedicated Data Model
imc Learning Suite database is optimised for best performance in all learning management tasks on a daily operational basis. With imc Learning Analytics you will be served with a data model optimised and enhanced by imc for Learning Analytics purposes hosted on Microsoft Power BI.
This provides better Learning Analytics performance as well as easier access and understanding of the included data model for your own report adaptation or new report creation.
In addition, especially in the context of our out-of-the-box reports (Learning Analytics Dashboards and Reports ) included in your imc Learning Analytics service – imc provides measures and calculated tables. This addresses best practice based Key Performance Indicators which are composed by imc development to support data correlation scenarios.
Application of Existing Roles and Access Rights
When using imc Learning Analytics you can fully build the access right management upon you as it is in imc Learning Suite. The access rights to reports can be steered as you are used to by the imc Learning Suite standard reports already used within imc Learning Suite. A report can be defined to consider the access rights of the reporter to content (e.g., learning paths or courses) or to users within the already existing and setup context of imc Learning Suite.
Quick Start with Out-of-the Box Dashboards and Reports
imc Learning Analytics is prefilled with dashboards and reports covering best practice scenarios from our customer base. This provides you with a head start to just use them by assigning them to the reporting audience who is supposed to use them. The detailed description of the out-of-the box dashboards and reports can be found in Learning Analytics Dashboards and Reports .
Adaption of Analyses to Individual Needs
Following the flexible approach of imc Learning Suite in general also imc Learning Suite Analytics provides a high flexibility to configure it to your concrete needs. You simply duplicate the out-of-the box report and change it to your concrete needs before you assign it again to the user groups you want to serve. This includes the change of filters or thresholds as defined by imc, the deletion or addition of further metric of Power BI KPIs (Visuals).
Create New Analysis
imc Learning Analytics allows the self-service of your individual further analysis use cases by providing direct access to the analytics data model via Microsoft Power BI embedded. You can start with an empty canvas and drag and drop visuals from Microsoft Power BI on it to assign the evaluation criteria to it in a second step by drag and drop of data values to the visuals.
Interact with Reports to Explore Root Causes
imc Learning Analytics provides you the possibility for drill-through and drill downs to support root cause analysis as needed. The out of the box dashboards and reports are providing insights from management level through mid-management level (business unit/group) down to the supervisor level for analysis of direct reporting learners. The drill-down works for top level granular details of a concrete learner or concrete single course/learning path in imc Learning Suite. Taking this as a head start for root cause analysis, users with access rights to the corresponding dataset can exploratively add further metrics to the already provided details to find correlations by flexibly exploration.
See Progress Trends and Forecasts
Learning Analytics is all about trends and forecast. This directly provides transparency whether undertaken actions for improvement you take based on learning analytics insights had taken effect to improve the trend to the better. These get enabled by corresponding visuals in Power BI Embedded and data model optimisations provided by imc for out-of-the box reports. Trends and forecasts can also be created as self-service by yourself when adapting out-of-the-box reports or creating new reports.