Tracking your students’ progress is an essential part of teaching, and not only does it become more manageable with some help from online learning tools, but it also becomes more effective. Even though grades will always be an essential indicator of the progress your students are making, and how well they understand the material, there are plenty of other techniques and tools that can provide more insight into their progress. 

Tracking your students’ progress takes place in several areas – their attendance, their grades, and their participation. When you use online learning tools, there are several ways that their progress can be monitored and tracked. 

Web Analytics

If you are doing some parts of the classwork through a website that the class uses, it can be quite simple to track student progress. By requesting that students log onto the website, you’ll instantly receive an impression of who logs on, how frequently, and when they logged-on. 

This kind of e-learning space can also lock specific work sections until your learners have finished a gateway activity, like a quiz. Naturally, this also indicates the progress of your students. 

Other, more complex methods of tracking learner progress in an online environment are using hotspots and click-analytics. With these, you can view the pages that students are clicking on, including where the mouse floats. In other words, you can see which page is garnering the most attention. 

LMS Tracking Tools

This is the easiest and quickest way to create an online learner tracking system, and it involves using a professional Learning Management System. This type of system is specially designed as closed and end-to-end, in which the teacher receives an easy-to-use dashboard and interface. 

These can be used freely to create lessons using media, hand out assignments, and evaluate them as well, from the same platform online. Tracking tools are varied and can be anything from analytics pages, which provide you with a look into all students’ grades. 

They also provide you with an overview of missing assignments, past assignments that were due, and overall score. 

Google Forms

This is a neat, useful platform that lets you design just about any questionnaire you can think of. They need log-ons and also measure the progress throughout an unlimited number of subjects. Google Forms can also be used as a way somewhat to automate the tracking of your students’ progress.

Kahoot

Kahoot is a simple, gamified assessment tool that is perfect for middle school assessments and tasks. You can create quizzes, puzzles, and games that students can play individually and as a group. It also makes tracking the progress of your students easy, as it requires individual students logins. 

Concluding Thoughts

Tracking your students’ progress in an online learning environment is not as complicated as you may have thought. In fact, it can actually be easier, as you will have all of the tools you need at your fingertips, quite literally. All you need to do is use them.