Arcade Learning Analytics

Understand Each Student's Learning Journey Through Clear, Meaningful Data

Analytics that transform gameplay into actionable insights about student progress, helping you support each learner effectively

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What Learning Analytics Provides for Your Teaching

Imagine having clear visibility into exactly where each student stands in their learning journey, which concepts they've mastered, and where they're struggling, all without spending hours reviewing assessments or guessing based on limited information. Our analytics platform transforms data from educational games into practical insights that help you make informed decisions about instruction and support.

Rather than drowning in spreadsheets or trying to interpret complex statistics, you'll have straightforward visualizations and reports that answer the questions you actually need answered. This clarity helps you focus your time and energy where it matters most, providing targeted support to students who need it while recognizing those who are ready for more challenging material.

Individual Progress Clarity

See exactly where each student stands on specific learning objectives

Class-Wide Patterns

Identify common challenges and strengths across your students

Actionable Recommendations

Receive suggestions for supporting individual learning needs

The Assessment and Tracking Challenges You Face

Limited Visibility Into Individual Understanding

Traditional assessments provide snapshots of student knowledge at specific moments, but they don't show the complete picture of how understanding develops over time. You might know that someone struggled on a test, but not whether that represents a temporary confusion or a fundamental gap that needs attention. Without continuous insight into learning progress, it's difficult to intervene at the right moment or recognize when students need different approaches.

Time Spent on Assessment Rather Than Teaching

Creating, administering, grading, and analyzing assessments consumes significant time that could be spent on actual instruction or working directly with students. Even when you complete all this work, the resulting data often feels overwhelming rather than enlightening, with numbers and scores that don't clearly indicate what actions you should take. The assessment process becomes an administrative burden rather than a helpful teaching tool.

Difficulty Identifying Patterns Across the Class

When multiple students struggle with the same concept, recognizing this pattern early would let you address it through targeted instruction. But noticing these class-wide trends requires comparing individual results and looking for commonalities, which takes more time than you typically have available. By the time you identify the pattern, you may have already moved on to new material, leaving gaps in understanding.

Uncertainty About When Students Need Intervention

Deciding when to provide additional support versus when to let students work through challenges independently requires understanding their progress trajectory, not just their current status. Without clear data showing whether someone is making steady progress or has hit a plateau, these decisions feel like educated guesses rather than informed choices. You want to help at the right time, but knowing when that is proves consistently challenging.

How Analytics Transform Educational Game Data Into Insights

Our analytics platform continuously collects data as students play educational games, tracking their interactions, decisions, and progress toward learning objectives. This ongoing collection creates a comprehensive picture of each student's learning journey without requiring you to administer separate assessments or interrupt instruction for testing.

The platform then processes this data into clear, visual reports that highlight what matters most for teaching decisions. Rather than presenting raw numbers, the system identifies patterns, flags areas of concern, and suggests specific actions you might take to support student learning effectively.

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Continuous Progress Monitoring Without Disruption

As students engage with educational games, the analytics platform tracks their performance on specific learning objectives automatically. This continuous assessment happens naturally during gameplay without requiring separate testing sessions or interrupting instruction. You gain insight into student understanding as it develops rather than waiting for scheduled assessment periods.

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Individual Student Profiles and Learning Paths

Each student receives a detailed profile showing their strengths, areas needing support, and progress over time. The system identifies specific concepts each learner has mastered and those requiring additional attention. These profiles help you understand individual needs quickly without reviewing extensive records or trying to remember details about every student's current status.

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Class-Wide Analytics for Strategic Planning

Beyond individual profiles, the platform provides aggregated views showing how your entire class is performing on different concepts. These class-wide analytics make it easy to spot common challenges that might benefit from group instruction or identify topics where most students are ready to advance. This strategic view helps you make efficient use of class time by addressing shared needs systematically.

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Predictive Insights and Personalized Recommendations

The analytics system doesn't just report current status; it analyzes progress patterns to suggest personalized learning paths for each student. These recommendations indicate which concepts someone should focus on next, when they might benefit from additional challenge, or where targeted intervention could prevent future struggles. This forward-looking approach helps you support students proactively rather than reactively.

Using Analytics in Your Daily Teaching Practice

Here's what integrating learning analytics into your workflow typically looks like in practice.

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Initial Setup and Integration

We begin by connecting the analytics platform to your existing educational games or implementing new games that include built-in tracking. During setup, we configure the system to track the specific learning objectives you care about and customize the dashboard to show the information most relevant to your teaching. This initial configuration ensures the analytics serve your actual needs rather than overwhelming you with irrelevant data.

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Learning the Dashboard and Reports

We provide training on navigating the analytics dashboard and understanding the various reports available. You'll learn how to check individual student progress, view class-wide trends, and interpret the recommendations the system provides. This training focuses on practical application rather than technical details, ensuring you can extract useful information quickly during your regular planning time.

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Daily and Weekly Check-Ins

Most educators spend just a few minutes each day reviewing the dashboard to see how students performed during gameplay sessions. Weekly reviews provide deeper insights into progress trends and help with instructional planning. The platform highlights changes and areas needing attention, so you don't need to analyze everything manually. These brief check-ins keep you informed without adding significant time to your workload.

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Using Insights for Instruction

Analytics inform your teaching decisions in practical ways. When the dashboard shows multiple students struggling with the same concept, you can dedicate class time to reviewing it. When someone's progress profile suggests they're ready for advanced material, you can provide appropriate challenges. The data helps you differentiate instruction effectively based on actual evidence rather than assumptions or limited observation.

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Progress Reports and Communication

The platform generates comprehensive progress reports that you can share with students, parents, or administrators as needed. These reports present learning progress clearly using visualizations and plain language rather than technical jargon. Having concrete data to support conversations about student progress makes these communications more productive and helps everyone understand exactly where learners stand.

Investment in Learning Analytics Platform

$4,900 USD

Complete analytics platform implementation

What This Investment Provides

Full analytics platform integrated with your educational games or game-based learning activities
Individual student progress profiles tracking mastery of specific learning objectives
Class-wide analytics revealing common strengths and challenges across all students
Predictive analytics suggesting personalized learning paths for optimal educational outcomes
Intuitive dashboard visualizations making complex data accessible and actionable
Automated progress reports suitable for sharing with students, parents, and administrators
Comprehensive training on dashboard navigation and data interpretation for practical application
Ongoing technical support and platform updates for three months after implementation

The Value Beyond Direct Cost

This investment provides ongoing access to insights that inform your teaching decisions throughout the school year and across multiple classes. The time saved on assessment administration and manual data analysis adds up significantly, freeing you to focus on actual instruction and student interaction.

More importantly, having clear visibility into student progress helps you intervene at the right moments, recognize mastery when it occurs, and differentiate instruction based on evidence rather than guesswork. These capabilities lead to more effective teaching and better outcomes for students who might otherwise struggle unnoticed or remain unchallenged when they're ready for advancement.

How We Ensure Analytics Serve Teaching Needs

Creating useful educational analytics requires understanding what questions teachers need answered and presenting data in ways that support practical decision-making. Our platform development prioritizes educator usability and relevance over technical sophistication.

Educator-Centered Design Process

The analytics platform was developed in collaboration with practicing educators who helped identify which information matters most for teaching decisions. Rather than presenting every possible metric, the dashboard focuses on data that directly informs instruction, intervention, and planning. This educator input ensures the platform serves teaching needs rather than generating impressive but unhelpful statistics.

Clear Visualization and Plain Language

All data is presented through intuitive visualizations and descriptions written in plain language rather than technical or statistical jargon. You don't need expertise in data analysis to understand what the platform is telling you. Charts, graphs, and summaries make patterns immediately visible, and explanatory text clarifies what the data means for your teaching practice.

Continuous Accuracy and Reliability

The platform undergoes regular validation to ensure the data collection and analysis remain accurate. We test the predictive recommendations against actual student outcomes to verify they provide useful guidance rather than misleading suggestions. This ongoing verification maintains the platform's reliability as a teaching tool you can trust when making important instructional decisions.

Realistic Implementation Timeline

Setting up and integrating the analytics platform typically takes two to three weeks, including initial configuration, training, and testing with your specific games and learning objectives. Most educators become comfortable using the dashboard within the first month of implementation. Full integration into your teaching workflow often happens gradually over the first semester as you discover which reports and features best serve your needs.

Supporting Your Transition to Data-Informed Teaching

Adopting new analytics tools represents a shift in how you approach assessment and planning. We're committed to making this transition smooth and supporting you throughout the process.

Platform Demonstration Before Commitment

We provide access to a demonstration version of the analytics dashboard so you can see exactly how it works before making any financial decision. This hands-on experience helps you evaluate whether the platform provides the kinds of insights you need and whether the interface feels intuitive for your workflow. Understanding what you're getting helps ensure the platform will actually serve your needs.

Thorough Training and Documentation

Implementation includes comprehensive training sessions covering dashboard navigation, report interpretation, and practical application of insights to teaching decisions. You'll also receive written documentation and video tutorials you can reference whenever questions arise. This training ensures you feel confident using the platform from the beginning rather than struggling through a learning curve alone.

Customization for Your Context

During setup, we configure the platform to track the learning objectives you care about and organize the dashboard according to your preferences. If you need to adjust what's being tracked or how information is presented as you use the platform, we can make those modifications. The system should serve your specific needs rather than forcing you to adapt to generic settings.

Responsive Support When Questions Arise

As you begin using the analytics platform, questions and challenges will naturally emerge. We provide ongoing support to help you understand what you're seeing in the data, troubleshoot technical issues, and figure out how to apply insights to specific teaching situations. This support continues for three months after implementation, ensuring you have help available during the critical early adoption period.

Beginning With Learning Analytics

If you're interested in gaining clearer insight into student progress through data, here's how to get started.

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Share Your Assessment Challenges

Reach out with information about your current approach to tracking student progress and any specific challenges you face with assessment or data management. Even if you're not sure exactly what analytics could help with, describing your situation gives us a foundation for discussing possibilities.

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Discuss Your Analytics Needs

We'll schedule a conversation to understand your teaching context, what games or game-based activities you're using, and what insights would be most helpful for your instructional decisions. This discussion helps us determine whether the analytics platform addresses your actual needs and fits with your current workflow.

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Explore the Platform Demonstration

If the analytics platform seems promising after our initial conversation, we provide demonstration access showing how the dashboard works and what kinds of reports and insights it generates. This hands-on exploration lets you evaluate the platform's usability and relevance before making any commitment.

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Implement and Integrate

When you decide to proceed, we work with you on technical setup, platform configuration, and training. Throughout the implementation period and the first months of use, we remain available to answer questions, provide guidance, and help you get maximum value from the analytics capabilities.

Wondering if analytics are worth the investment for your situation?

The initial conversation helps clarify whether data-informed teaching would meaningfully improve your current practice. There's no pressure to commit if it doesn't seem like a good fit.

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Let's discuss how clearer data could support your teaching and student progress tracking.

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