DATA EXTRACT: Student eLearning Metrics Joined with COVID-19 Survey Responses

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused Indiana University, like many colleges and universities across the United States, to suspend in-person classes, transitioning fully and abruptly to online learning. This situation offered a unique opportunity to understand how the exclusive use of online education affected course instruction and student learning and behavior. To advance this understanding, the eLearning Research and Practice Lab carried out a full census survey of all Indiana University undergraduate students and instructors of undergraduate courses during Summer 2020. In the survey, some student respondents provided an affirmative Release of Academic Information information, permitting the eLearning Lab to extract information about their activity and grades within the Canvas learning management system (LMS). This item includes technical details of this data extract, and its append to the survey responses.