What is CLAADSS?
CLAADSS (Clinical Learning Analytics Application for Decision Support Software) is an open-source web application designed to support data-driven decision making in health professions education. It allows instructors, curriculum designers, and program administrators to easily visualize and analyze student data from their learning management system or other sources.
CLAADSS provides interactive dashboards and reports to gain insights into various aspects of student performance, engagement, at-risk statuses, and more. Some key features include:
- Automated early alert system to identify struggling students
- Comparison reports of student cohorts over time
- Analysis of assessment scores, resource usage, online activity etc.
- User-friendly filters to drill down into specific student groups, courses etc.
- Customizable dashboards for different stakeholder needs
- Exportable tables and charts
By aggregating and simplifying complex learning analytics data, CLAADSS enables educators and administrators to efficiently monitor student learning processes and outcomes. They can then use these data insights to continually refine and improve their education programs, teaching practices, student support mechanisms and curriculum design.
As an open-source solution, CLAADSS can be downloaded, installed and configured by any health professions school to suit their own learning data environment and analytical needs.