The Insights Portal is a set of dashboards built for (and with) faculty that address common instructional and curricular challenges. It offers a visual platform for understanding engagement, assessment, and discussion-related data as an aid for faculty–student interventions, just-in-time changes to class sessions, or iterative course curricular changes that improve student learning outcomes. The Insights Portal is available to all faculty via a course’s NYU Brightspace course site.
Getting Started
Faculty
- Visit our service pages on this site for more information about different reports and dashboards. Then visit the Insights Portal.
- Sign up for a training session at the beginning of each semester, or reach out to the team with questions at learning.analytics@nyu.edu.
- Have a question you want answered with new analytics or data? Learn how you can request new analytics to solve teaching challenges.
Consultations and Support
- Learn more about the tool, and how it integrates with your course site. Sign up for an in-person consultation with the Digital Studio.
Administrators
- If you’re working with a faculty member and need access to their analytics, please read about the process for administrative access to a faculty member’s Insights Portal dashboards.
- For questions about analytics offerings of a current or potential future instructional tool, contact learning.analytics@nyu.edu to have a consultation with the Learning Analytics team.
Recommendations on Student Transparency
It is good practice to make sure students know you are using learning analytics about the course to support students during the course and make improvements after. Although it is not required, it would be recommended to include information about the use of learning analytics in your syllabus:
“Learner engagement, both in class and online, is an important element of this course. I will be looking at our class interactions both in person and digitally in order to tailor the course to best meet your learning needs and make improvements to the course design overall. In person, this means “reading the room” by looking at how students engage with different course materials and activities. Online, this means digitally “reading the room” by looking at information about how students engage with different course materials and activities.”