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2021: E-learning in figures

Here you can find numbers and statistics for 2021 usage of the systems that are maintained by the e-learning maintenance object. The e-learning management object is continuously using data driven development and the figures presented here are only a selection of the data that decisions are based upon.

Course rooms in Canvas

Course rooms in Canvas are created automatically for every course run and it is the teacher of the course that actively has to choose to publish the course room and make it available for the students.

Some course runs are studying together and using the same course room. In that case the students are moved into one of the course room and the other remains unpublished. The publishing rate is affected, but to a very low extent.

The statistics are divided into the number of course rooms that are created, published and contentfull. "Contentfull" indicates courses where the sum of the number of assignments, modules and quizzes are more than 3.

Table: course rooms in Canvas per school
School Created Published Contentfull
ABE 558 371 306
CBH 610 297 245
EECS 596 409 369
ITM 699 471 431
SCI 555 326 237

Diagram: course rooms in Canvas per school

Bar diagram showing the number of created, published and contentfilled course rooms per school
Number of course rooms in Canvas per school

Course surveys (LEQ)

Students must be given the possibility to give their feedback and suggestions on the course design and implementation. Course surveys using LEQ are created on the initiative from the teachers in the course but they can also perform a survey using pen and paper or other tools for collecting the feedback from the students. The number of course surveys using LEQ is lower than the total number of courses indicating that there are a large number of courses using other ways than LEQ of collecting and evaluating courses. The LEQ survey is however most likely the most commonly used way.

Total number of course surveys with LEQ: 1130.

The number of course surveys and the response rate is similar to the previous year.

Table: course surveys per school
School Number of surveys Number of survey invitations sent out Response rate %
ABE 253 15360 21.8
CBH 132 7265 19.9
EECS 252 21046 20.5
ITM 310 16556 19.7
SCI 183 18031 15.1

Diagram: course surveys per school

Bar diagram of number of course surveys per school
Number of course surveys using LEQ per school.

Diagram: response rate per school

Combined bar diagram of reponserate (%) and number of survey invitations sent out
Total number of survey invitations and a representation of the response rate is a percentage of each bar.

External applications (LTI-apps) in Canvas

KTH provides a number of external applications, known as LTI-apps, as a complement and extension to Canvas. KTH also provides support on a few LTI apps: Kaltura (KTH Play), Möbius and KTH Import exams.

There are licenses for Möbius, but they must be requested. The remaining applications have been activated when teachers requested them.

Kaltura is not included in the statistics as it is available automatically in all Canvas rooms.

Table: courses per school with specific external application activated
School KTH Import exams KTH OLI Matlab Grader Möbius Peergrade Redirect Snowflake Vimeo embed Youtube embed
ABE 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
CHB 4 0 0 11 0 8 4 1 4
EECS 1 13 2 12 13 230 0 1 5
ITM 27 0 0 83 6 18 9 2 53
SCI 15 0 1 20 1 25 1 1 3

Diagram: courses per school with specific external application activated

Bar diagram of the LTI-apps activated for each school
Number of courses with specific external application activated, per school

Quizzes with Mentimeter

The Mentimeter tool is mainly used to create surveys or quizzes that can be answered online, but can also be used for presentations. The tool is an alternative to so-called clicker questions for distance and hybrid occasions, often used to see if students have understood the content.

Active members: 1077.

Number of quizzes and presentations: 3167.

Number of participants: 58 351.

The statistics are from February 2021, when KTH began management of Mentimeter.

Plagiarism checking with Ouriginal

Total documents reviewed: 92 000.
Number of users viewed document: 776.

Ouriginal can be used as a standalone web service as well as an integrated service in Canvas where the assignments are connected to Ouriginal. The figures here apply to both ways but where the documents checked via Canvas make up the majority and is also an increasing number.

Both the number of reviewed documents and the number of users are similar to the previous year.