Developing a Teacher Dashboard For Use with Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Many dashboards display analytics generated by educational technologies, but few of them work with intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). We are creating a teacher dashboard for use with ITSs built and used within our CTAT/Tutorshop infrastructure: an environment for authoring and deploying ITSs. The dashboard will take advantage of the fine-grained interaction data and derived analytics that CTAT-built ITSs produce. We are taking a user-centered design approach in which we target two usage scenarios for the dashboard. In one scenario, a teacher uses the dashboard while helping a class of students working with the tutoring software in the school’s computer lab. In the other, the teacher uses the dashboard to prepare for an upcoming class session. So far, we have completed a Contextual Inquiry, ideation, Speed Dating sessions in which teachers evaluated story boards, usability testing, and a classroom study with a mocked up version of the dashboard with real data from the teacher’s current classes and students. We are currently analyzing the data produced in these activities, iterating on the design of the dashboard, and implementing a full version of the dashboard. Unique characteristics of this dashboard may be that it leverages finegrained interaction data produced by an ITS and that it will be fully integrated with an ITS development and deployment environment, and therefore available for use with many ITSs.