Monitoring and reporting of course progress

Purpose

1. Ensure real-time monitoring of apprentice progress and automated reporting to stakeholders (students, tutors, admin, employers).

2. Track course completion rates, attendance, assessment outcomes, and time-on-task for compliance and improvement.

3. Consolidate progress data from disparate learning platforms into unified reports.

4. Notify responsible parties about learners at risk, milestone completions, and overdue tasks.

Trigger Conditions

1. Student completes an assessment, quiz, or module.

2. Periodic time/event triggers (daily, weekly, end of course).

3. Detected drop in attendance or performance below a threshold.

4. Manual trigger by tutor/administrator for on-demand reports.

Platform Variants

1. Moodle

• Feature/Setting: Webhooks – configure course completion trigger; REST API (`core_completion_get_course_completion_status`); sample: webhook URL with JSON payload to automation endpoint.
  

2. Blackboard

• Feature/Setting: REST API (`GET /learn/api/public/v1/courses/{courseId}/gradebook/columns`); sample: scheduled API polling for progress extraction.
  

3. Canvas

• Feature/Setting: API endpoint (`GET /api/v1/courses/:course_id/students/submissions`); sample: trigger for submission status update.
  

4. Google Classroom

• Feature/Setting: API (`courses.courseWork.studentSubmissions.list`); configure daily check for submission states.
  

5. Microsoft Teams (Education)

• Feature/Setting: Graph API (`/education/classes/{id}/assignments`); listen for status updates on assignments.
  

6. TalentLMS

• Feature/Setting: API (`GET /api/v1/users/user_id/progress`); automate on completion event.
  

7. SAP SuccessFactors Learning

• Feature/Setting: OData API; schedule extraction of learning history (`/UserLearningHistory`).
  

8. Docebo

• Feature/Setting: API (`GET /learn/v1/enrollments/user/{user_id}`); trigger on completion.
  

9. Absorb LMS

• Feature/Setting: REST API (`GET /api/Rest/v1/Enrollments`); schedule daily status checks.
  

10. Cornerstone OnDemand

• Feature/Setting: API for learning progress (`GET /learningInstances/{id}`); trigger on completion or failure.
  

11. Salesforce Education Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Platform Events – listen for completion events; query progress with SOQL.
  

12. Power BI

• Feature/Setting: Streaming dataset API for real-time report updates; webhook to refresh visual dashboard.
  

13. Zoho Analytics

• Feature/Setting: Data API (`POST /api/{orgid}/datasets`); push progress data for automated reporting.
  

14. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: API (`spreadsheets.values.update`); update progress sheet upon trigger.
  

15. Airtable

• Feature/Setting: API (`PATCH /v0/{baseId}/{tableName}/{recordId}`); update record with status.
  

16. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; send real-time progress alerts to channel.
  

17. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: API (`POST /2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Messages.json`); notify stakeholders via SMS.
  

18. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Email API (`v3/mail/send`); issue automated progress reports to assigned contacts.
  

19. Mailchimp

• Feature/Setting: Transactional API (`POST /messages/send`); periodic summary email.
  

20. Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: Scheduled flows or HTTP webhook trigger; integrate with multiple progress sources.
  

Benefits

1. Eliminates manual tracking and reporting workload.

2. Immediate, actionable insights for interventions and compliance.

3. Enhanced transparency for all stakeholders.

4. Improves apprentice retention and completion rates by timely escalation.

5. Scalable solution across multiple courses and platforms.