CLAS 2023 - Learning Analytics Summit

Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy returns to CLAS for a third keynote! New for CLAS 2023, Dr. Jones-Rooy takes attendees on a journey filled with the importance of creativity, thinking big, and leading with ideas, but this time with something new everyone is talking about – Generative AI. Generative AI can feel scary and overwhelming – and of course, no one knows how far it will go – but in the meantime, it can also be a fantastic tool to increase our analytical power, our discoveries from data, and even our own creativity. Audience members will walk away with tangible ideas about how they can put resources like ChatGPT to work right away to help them increase their own analytical and creative powers, be humble about the limitations of the technology, and to feel empowered to be positive participants, not just observers, of the many changes to come.

This panel session focuses on the power, limits, and potential variations of usage analytics. Learn how school districts connect data to better support edtech adoption and learning. We will focus on where we are today and what we think the future of usage-data analytics may include.

Join us to learn how to make the most out of analytics data in the ClassLink product suite. We'll show you how to use ClassLink Analytics and Analytics+ to determine which digital apps students and staff use. You'll also learn how this data connects with the 1EdTech TrustEd Apps Management Console (TAMS). And that's not all – we'll teach you the ROI of your digital investments using the cost analysis features in ClassLink Analytics.

Schools and their vendor partners have long struggled with solutions to protect shared PII data—until now. ClassLink DataGuard offers a revolutionary approach to limiting the amount of sensitive data shared, ultimately reducing risks for schools and vendors. It's a win-win for both parties and the entire industry.

DataGuard allows schools to replace key PII fields with meaningless letter scrambles before sending data to a vendor. Don't let rostering protocols compromise your school's data security!

Join this session and learn how to minimize the risks associated with data sharing and protect your schools against cybercriminals.

If you've asked yourself, “Does ClassLink have Heatmaps?” this session is for you! Join us as we explore how to access Heatmaps to gain greater insight into everything from Logins to ClassLink and App usage, all with just one click. We will look at how to identify trends and areas of improvement and inspire you to elevate your understanding of how this data can impact strategic planning decisions.

When's the last time you had an aha moment working with data? Spotting data's four-leaf clovers takes more than luck! Learn how the skills to spot natural anomalies can help you derive value from your endless data. If you want to increase your organization's data insights, this session is for you!

Analytics+ provides key insights into what digital resources and districts use—but what about your building and curriculum leaders? Join Tara Amsterdam (Instructional Technology Coach, Colonial School District) as she shares how her district creates user-friendly reports to illuminate what instructional programs are used across buildings and classrooms through Analytics+ data. You’ll learn Tara’s best practices for sharing data with non-technical district leaders and get a peek at her future plans for improving these reports.

The rich variety of data that school systems generate contains valuable insights that facilitate decision-making at various levels. Data analytics can help a school system with everything from personalizing a student’s learning path to identifying and managing their portfolio of digital resources. In this session, we will explore the Top 5 Uses of ClassLink Analytics to ensure that you benefit from all the data available to you and your teachers—at your fingertips.

Attendees will leave this session with a complete understanding of how to measure K–12 cybersecurity effectiveness using the new cybersecurity education framework and rubric explicitly designed for education. Key takeaways include the culmination of the Cybersecurity Coalition’s work for the past two years. You'll learn how to:

• Use the cybersecurity rubric to conduct a self-assessment.
• Utilize the NIST-informed education-focused cybersecurity evaluation rubric and evaluate practices based on a maturity level.
• Assign maturity levels for cybersecurity practices based on the supporting evidence.
• Develop a cybersecurity evaluation report based on evaluation findings.

Attendees will implement their cyber-investigation skills by closely examining each cybersecurity domain-category maturity level rating and supporting evidence using the new framework. Just like measuring academic performance improvement using an A–F grading system, this systematic method of continuous improvement for cybersecurity safety is a surefire way school systems will improve!

With so many applications used in the classroom, it can be difficult to track which digital resources are used by students and teachers. ClassLink Analytics makes it easy for ClassLink Administrators to create reports that track digital resource usage to share with district stakeholders. If you’re a ClassLink Administrator, be sure to join us as we learn real-world strategies for leveraging data and explore Analytics’ hidden treasures to provide relevant, timely reports that can be used to deliver easy-to-understand information to your organization’s decision-makers.