The motivation behind this research was to gain an understanding of the relationship between student achievement in their terminal examination and their engagement with Panopto, the video capture system used with in the School of Law in University College Cork.
The aim of this process is to begin to comprehend how Panopto is working for students and to quantify how well the system worked by improving learning outcomes.
The Approach we adopted was to combine the viewing stats with the exam outcomes. The methodology used was to download the viewing statistics on Panopto. This information gave us an indication of the number of views per student, and how many minutes of a video was watched per student. We then linked data from the exam results system that we have within the Law School and the data from the viewing statistics on Panopto.
The resulting scatter plot gives us an indication of the failure and pass rates combined with the number for views.
Initial analysis suggests that students who watch over 500 minutes of video pass their terminal exam. Thus, in a class of 400 + students, we can say to them at the start of the course that if you watch 500 minutes of video or more you will be able to pass your exam, based on past statistical analysis.
A closer analysis of the data and a trend line showed that one student who watched over 2000 minutes of video got a first class honours result in the module.
Other indicators from the research showed that if people were not engaging with Panopto they had a significantly lower chance of getting a higher mark that those who did engage with Panopto.
