Systematic Mapping of Moodle Dashboards Focused on Learning Analytics Tasks

Learning Analytics Dashboards are useful tools for presenting data visually. This work presents a systematic mapping study of publications from 2010 to 2020 (May) about Learning Analytics and visualization tools for Moodle. A total of 238 papers were collected from Scopus, Web of Science, and CAPES Portal. From those, 51 were selected to be analyzed according to a seven dimension model involving the following criteria: data sources; goals of analysis; stakeholders; research approach; maturity of the tool; ethical issues; and specificities of the tool. The analysis showed that most of the tools are developed to be used by the teachers, and that the most frequent goal of the tools is to allow the comparison of students’ metrics. Moreover, the analysis also showed a huge amount of papers proposing (still not developed) tools focused on prediction and intervention, thus indicating a growing interest in this topic. At last, it was also observed a lack of information available regarding ethical issues over the collection, processing and storage of personal information by the existing LAD.