Monitoring Student Engagement in Text-Reading Activities within the Moodle Environment Using PDFNoteTrack

• Marcelo B. A. Scavassa Federal University of ABC
• Edson P. Pimentel Federal University of ABC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2838-212X
• Juliana Braga Federal University of ABC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2385-0051
• Silvia Dotta Federal University of ABC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-1630

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbie.2024.242824

Abstract

The lack of student engagement in learning tasks is one of the factors that can lead to academic failure. Monitoring the level of engagement allows teachers and students to seek improvements in the learning process. This work aims to present the PDFNoteTrack tool developed to support monitoring student engagement in text reading activities in the Moodle environment, recording elements such as interaction time, access to pages, and insertion of markings and comments in the text. The article also evaluates the tool's usability through an experiment involving 69 students from a distance learning specialization course. The results of applying the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire indicate that, on average, users rated the tool's usability higher than the reference value.

Keywords: Student Engagement, Text-Reading, Moodle, PDFNoteTrack

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