KSU aims to take full advantage of data gathered through the LMS, D2L, for a faculty audience. Our online learning unit, Digital Learning Innovations, has revised their mission to support faculty in using the LMS to manage learning in all modalities and using the data to identify problems, diagnose root causes, and take targeted actions during the semester to impact student success within the semester. The learning analytics solution, uHoo Analytics, is available to all faculty. Additionally, faculty are provided professional development in tool use and data interpretation.
This project is aligned with one of our “Top 5 Strategies,” which is to encourage faculty to utilize student course data to improve student performance.
Evaluation Plan and measures as of Fall 2025:
- Micro-learning completion rates by badges awarded:
Introduction to uHoo Analytics: 340 issued
Learning Analytics 101: 118 issued
Course Optimization: 92 issued
Student Support: 96 issued - Faculty system engagement metrics:
590 faculty have requested access to uHoo Analytics
131 unique users over 30 days (September-October 2025)
Faculty access to uHoo continues to grow, but average engagement per user has plateaued—likely due to delays in implementing requested dashboard updates. Users submitted dozens of feature requests, signaling strong interest. The next release—now in testing—includes visual refinements, a simplified dashboard set, and a predictive dashboard that offers machine-learning–based action recommendations for faculty. These enhancements are expected to improve perceived value and ease of use. Professional-development uptake has been strong, with 340 badge earners completing the introductory course. Following the upcoming January rollout, we will survey instructors to assess impact and guide further system improvements and training. The program coordinator dashboards are still used by the pilot program coordinators; however, no new developments have been made in the past year due to capacity. The platform development work focused on moving the system into Microsoft Fabric which has provided the capacity to integrate artificial intelligence, both machine learning and generative. This will allow the system to provide both predictive and prescriptive information to instructors.
In the next year, the uHoo development team will release version 2.0. This version will include faculty-requested revisions to the original dashboards as well as the addition of a simplified set of dashboards, a new measure of student engagement, and a student outcome predictive report. The development team will release and promote the new version in January 2026. Professional development is being revised to reflect the changes within the system. This programming will be delivered through custom college-specific support events and training. Revision of the program coordinator dashboards will restart in Spring of 2026.
CHALLENGES:
Human resources in our Digital Learning Innovations team are limited and saw significant turnover with the requirement to be on campus. Ensuring we have the time and human resources to be successful is important. Currently we are working on backfilling several positions. Additionally, we are shifting our development work from our 3Cloud partners supported by KSU’s UITS team to KSU’s Data Strategy team supported in part by 3Cloud.
SUPPORT NEEDED:
We have been able to work with the USG UIT team as well as the D2L developers. Their engagement continues to be valuable to troubleshoot and advance the uHoo Analytics. We do not require additional support beyond this continuance.
