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A fair comparison

You already have the LAD. Why this?

A fair answer, because it is the first thing anyone asks.

What ships with BigBlueButton

What the Learning Analytics Dashboard does well

BigBlueButton ships the Learning Analytics Dashboard, the LAD, and it is good at its job. While a session runs it shows the moderator who is present, who is talking, the chat and webcam activity, the poll answers and a timeline of the slides. At the end it downloads as a spreadsheet. If your question is about the room you are in right now, it is already answered and you do not need us.

Where a term needs something else

Learning Analytics Dashboard

BBB Analytics

It keeps every session

One session at a time. The view closes when the room does.

Not one meeting but all of them, comparable across a run of sessions and a whole year.

A promoted student keeps their work

Scored on the last role held.

Make a student a moderator mid-session and everything they did before that still counts. We score them on the role they arrived in.

For people who were not there

Open to the moderator while the session runs, and to nobody afterwards.

A head of department or a quality lead opens a dashboard next month without having attended anything.

The view that does not exist yet

The screen it ships with is the screen.

If the question you are asking is not on any screen, we build the view for it and it joins the others.

One seminar, three systems, three different pictures.

Fifty minutes of teaching happened. Three systems watched some part of it and each kept a different slice. The middle column is your own LMS, so you can check every line of it yourself rather than take our word for it.

What your LMS, the Learning Analytics Dashboard and BBB Analytics each keep about the same live session.
For one 50 minute seminarYour LMSThe LADBBB Analytics
That the session took place at allYesYesYes
Who joined, and how long each of them stayedNoWhile it runsYes
Who spoke, and for how longNoWhile it runsYes
Chat, polls, raised hands, whiteboard and camerasNoWhile it runsYes
The same measures across the other eleven weeksAttendance onlyNoYes
Students who attended all term and were never heardNoNoYes
Open next March to a reviewer who was never in the roomYesNoYes
Quiz scores, submissions and gradesYesNoNo

See the difference on your own data.

Bring a course you have already run and we will show you both views of it.