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Statistical trends for E-learning in figures

Here you can find trends in the yearly numbers and statistics for the 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.

The usage of course rooms

Course rooms in Canvas are created automatically for every course run, but they are unpublished when created. It is the teacher of the course that actively has to choose to publish the course room and make it available for the students. A course rooms is considered "contentfull" when the sum of the number of assignments, modules and quizzes are more than three.

In the data we can see an increase in the number of published course rooms for all schools since 2019. However, there is a larger variation in the percentage of the published course rooms that are contentfull, even if all values are high. It is important to mention that how the statistics were collected was changed in 2022, which might explain the sudden changes at 2022 and 2023.

Diagram: published and contentfull course rooms

Two line diagram over course room statistics for schools at KTH since 2019.

Tables: published and contentfull course rooms

The number of published course rooms
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
ABE 456 349 371 244 467
CHB 258 283 297 215 338
EECS 412 376 409 245 455
ITM 388 466 471 417 570
SCI 416 327 326 189 395
Percentage of contentfull course rooms (compared to published)
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
ABE 64 79 82 84 73
CHB 75 81 82 82 63
EECS 75 90 90 94 69
ITM 98 88 92 89 76
SCI 47 67 73 79 51

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 schools show some differences in the number of LEQ-surves sent out, but the response rate is similar and is therefore shown as an average. In the data we can see an increase in the number of course surveys since 2019 and also a steady decline in the response rate during the same time period. The biggest change for both data sets happened 2020, which indicates that the pandemic might have influenced the data.

Diagram: the number of LEQ and the response rate

Two diagrams: average response rate (declining) and number of LEQ-surveys (increasing) since 2019.

Table: the number of LEQ and the response rate

The number of LEQ and the average response rate for all schools
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Total number of surveys 839 1094 1130 1142 1033
The average response rate (%) 28 20 19.4 16.4 15.7

The usage of Ouriginal for plagiarism check

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.

The number of users in Ouriginal varies for each year without any noticable trend, but the total in 2023 is still higher than in 2019. However, the number of documents sent to Ouriginal show a clear declining trend since the sharp increase at 2020. Still, there are more documents sent to Ouriginal in 2023 than in 2019 and it is unclear if the number will keep declining.

Diagram: the number of users and documents in Ouriginal

Two diagrams: number of users in Ouriginal and documents since 2019, with increasing trend line.

Table: the number of users and documents in Ouriginal

The number of users and documents in Ouriginal
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Number of documents 57832 94000 92000 78698 65141
Number of users 593 734 776 358 680