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I love visualizing data within the realm of education, and it has become a goal for me to create (or explore) more opportunities for effective tools. Currently, in my school, I find there is a lack of reliance on looking at data or understanding it as an effective tool. We receive data based on district or provincial assessments and analyze the data for student programming, but the next step of using the data to predict is lacking. Personally, using Excel spreadsheets is my everyday tool for tracking my finances and even managing my house plants.
Danielle

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Love a good pivot table!

I have used pivot tables along with simple bar and pie charts to display all kinds of student survey data. During the pandemic we were using a bi-weekly check-in for student health and well being and I was collecting and collating the data to share it with teachers. We weren't sharing individual student data but rather looking for trends in wellbeing amongst our cohorts and then trying to intervene when we could. The pie charts made for a really simple comparison week on week to see if well being was changing instead of having to sift through all of the individual data.

Mike Olynyk

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I like setting up my sheets to have custom cell formatting. Although this is a very basic form of visualization, it allows me to follow patterns in scores, completion, or other types of data.

I hope to make better use of LMS visualization as I move more of my content online.

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We use Xtramath.org at my school in grades 3 & 4 for students to practice their mental math and build fluency and accuracy with their addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts. This program offers useful data visuals for both teachers and students to help track participation and progress which can be used to set goals. The image I shared, for example, shows the class data (class report), by which a teacher can view the outcome of each student's practice session that day, the fluency score (percentage complete in current operation), Sparkline graphing score fluctuations over time, and daily usage and results in the form of a colour coded icon. Clicking into each student's screen offered teachers a more detailed overview of progress and details such as exactly which facts with which students were struggling.

Students could also track their own progress in the form of a multiplication (addition, subtraction) chart with mastered facts shaded green, and various stages of progress shown in other colours. This visual was very accessible and informative for students, as they could see exactly which math facts they needed to focus on during practice times as they worked to fill the whole table with green squares. It was motivating for students to see a visual representation of their progress. They set goals for themselves and celebrated achieving those goals.

~Carina

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I've introduced infographics to students as a way in which to present data in a visually interesting and engaging way.
I usually begin by pulling up a few examples of infographics and particularly like the site: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/
I think that exposing students to infographics is a great way for them to develop a different form of literacy. In creating their own infographics, I usually have students make them based on some research-based project they are working on.
-Nick

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My school built a LMS that uses lots of data visualization to give teachers a quick overview of a students' behaviour, academic performance, and well-being. It is a useful way to present data without overwhelming teachers, while also allowing a viewer to expand data to further explore any data of interest.
-Roger

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I use data visualization through my schools LMS, Edsby. It is a great way to sit down with a student and make goals about areas of improvement rather than looking at a table of numbers. The image above allows for you to represent their evidence of learning through assessment type or specific assignments. As the teacher you can also compare it to class averages. It helps to show areas of strength as well as areas that need improvement in a way that lends itself to growth mindset more than looking at failing percentage scores which can be helpful for some students.

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Power BI was tool I was introduced to during the pandemic and was immensely helpful in visualizing data in a startup mentorship program we launched to measure impact on our intended audience: first semester international students. We initially tried to present the data within Excel, but quickly realized it was not robust enough to pull all of the data we needed it to, which was a big advantage for using BI. We could breakdown and present the data on which program both the mentor and mentee were in, their country, track the number of interactions they had and also visualize semester over semester the growth of the program. -Richard

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As review of math concepts covered in class, and for additional practice teachers can assign specific curricular outcomes on their Mathletics or Prodigy accounts for their students. The site then pulls questions on those concepts from their database and assigns them to any students you have selected. When students have completed their assessment, you can see how well students were able to complete questions based on specific learning outcomes.
I found it helpful as a quick gauge of how our unit of study was progressing...should I speed up, slow down, review specific concepts.
(Picture is just a screenshot from Google, not my actual students)
Kelby Bacon

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My school is part of a larger organisation of global international schools called Nord Anglia Education. Recently, Nord Anglia has been gradually shifting all of their schools to an MIS platform called iSAMS. As part of my new position in my school, I was tasked with exploring ways to collect, analyse, and share data with our various staff members. I very excited to get going with iSAMS as it is designed to be an MIS/LMS in one package but most exciting for me is that the platform has a teacher dashboard similar to Google Analytics that displays everything about a student from grades to behaviour to attendance. Right now, my school does a great job collecting and storing data but never actually using it in any meaningful way. iSAMS, I am hoping, is going to change that by putting the data front and center.

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At my old school, I used Google Analytics all the time to better understand who was going to our website, how long they were staying on each page, and the overall level of engagement. It also come in handy as we learned about WHERE they were logging in from and we began catering our advertising to those locations. It was Google Analytics that showed us that California and New York were major markets for us that we didn't even know existed. We could also see HOW they arrived at our site and this taught us to up our SEO game to attract more users. -Simon

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One way that I use data visualization is with activity completion reports that I can see as the teacher using a platform. For example, when I use EducationPerfect, I can see which students completed the required tasks and how long they spent on them as well. This can be done with DuolingoClassroom and QuizletPlus as well. The data visualization provided allows me to quickly complete a homework check that historically would have been done one on one, verifying paper / journals / binders.

In my personal life, I love the affordances that the Strava app gives me. Being new to Hong Kong, I appreciate how the app logs the hikes I have completed so that, not only can I see how long they took and how far I went, but also... what their names were! I have used it for my five day bicycle trip through Vietnam, and most recently, for my two Indonesian volcano hikes. When I complete repeated runs, I can see what my best times are for particular stretches. Strava functions as an activity motivator (a basic social media platform as well) as I can see what my friends, and former students are up to physically!