Teacher Experience

Course Statistics

To offer teachers and admins more insight on self-paced learners and their progress, we now office Course Statistics! This feature provides statistical data on self-paced courses so that teachers can leverage it to help their students.  

In the Admin Portal, click Administration > Learning & Development > Reporting

  • The top row consists of general statistics:

  • Total number of learners

  • Total number of courses that have “Self-paced Learning” toggled active

  • Total number of enrollment records from all Self-paced Learning courses

  • Total number of completions by students of Self-paced Learning courses

  • Number of Active Users 

    • “Active” here is defined by the user as having used the eKadence system within the past 30 days.

  • Number of Inactive Users

  • The middle row consists of percentage data.

    • Completion Rate

    • Average Course Score Percentage

    • Course Completion Status Bar: Not Started, In Progress, Completed

    • Assessment Status Bar: 

      • Pass Rate:

        • This feature is specifically for the self-paced learning assessments that have a minimum score required to pass.

      • Average Score

      • Retake percentage:

        • This feature is specifically for the self-paced learning assessments that allow users to retake the exam.

  • The bottom row consists of more general statistics

    • The leaderboard section displays the Top 10 Learners and Top 10 Teams based on the selected option from their respective drop-down menu: Course Completion Rate, Average Course Score, Credit, and Badges.

    • Course Statistics (Per Team) includes all Teams, even if the students on the Team have not yet completed a course.

      • There are two lines of bar graphs for each Team.

        • Total Enrollments - Total # of courses enrolled by members on the team

        • Total Completions - Total # of courses completed by the team

      • For example, from the screenshot above, we see that the Baristas team has enrolled in 115 courses, and 65 of those courses are completed by the team, thus their progress is 65/115 = 57%.


Add File to Document Center

To improve communication between parent and teacher communication, teachers can now add a document for parents to view and/or sign by selecting the Add to Document Center option. This helps keep documents centralized, making it easier to find.  

  • When teachers go to publish an announcement and attach a pdf file, they can select Add to Document Center.

  • When this box is checked, the system also gives them the option to Require parent to sign & acknowledge.

Activities

  • Fixed bug where images were not copied over with modules.

Gradebook

  • Enhanced Attendance Visualization

    • When teachers enter their class page, on the left side bar, there is now an Attendance section. 

  • Attendance Day defaults to today’s date, but it can be changed by selecting the calendar icon. 

  • Default Blank to defaults to PC - Present C.  It can be set to any of the other attendance options from the drop-down menu.
     

  • The main section of the Attendance Visualization lists all students’ Full Names, their Attendance, and a Notes section for teachers.

  • When completed, teachers can click Save Attendance Record to log student attendance in the class.


Miscellaneous

  • Bug fixes with the Discrepancy Checker – enhanced check for duplicate line items in the sync between Aeries and eKadence.

  • Changed the default activity publish times, activity due time, and submission cut-off time from 12:00AM to 11:59PM.

  • Added ITC Franklin Gothic font to content editor.


Student Experience

Miscellaneous

  • UI Bug fixes with assignments in Microsoft Suite. Students can now seamlessly share editor permissions when creating new documents, or after changing existing permissions.

  • Added ITC Franklin Gothic font to content editor.

Parent Experience

Documents

Parents can access pdf documents, and view and/or sign them with ease. Parents sign and deliver these documents to teachers and keep them organized. 

  • Navigating to Documents 

    • When the parent is logged into their eKadence account, clicking on an announcement that contains a document will take them directly to the Documents section.

    • From the parent dashboard, click on the Documents tab

  • Under Documents, parents will see a list of documents that have been sent to them. Those that still require a signature will have a red tag on them, and those that are signed will have a green tag, as displayed:

  • If it requires a signature, they can click Sign & Acknowledge. This option is not visible for documents that do not require a signature.

  • By default, all documents have the ability to Save PDF, Print, or Close the document.