Monitoring an Online Course with the GISMO Tool: A Case Study

This article presents GISMO, a novel, open source, graphic student-tracking tool integrated into Moodle. GISMO repre-sents a further step in information visualization applied to education, and also a novelty in the field of learning manage-ment systems applications. The visualizations of the tool, its uses and the benefits it can bring are illustrated through a detailed case study of an online course. GISMO provides visualizations of behavioral, cognitive and social data from the course, allowing constant monitoring of students activi-ties, engagement and learning outcomes.