In addition, the authors investigated an ‘online learning bundling’ strategy that emerged where students engaged more with a course when they were online submitting an assessment in a different course. The rapid transition to online learning, as a consequence of COVID-19, has highlighted the risks of student disengagement, and the subsequent impact on lower student achievement across multiple courses. a grade lower than B were 1.67 times higher (95% CI 1.24, 2.26 p < 0.001), regardless of the course. For every additional week of zero LMS engagement, the odds of a student achieving. Finally, a clear relationship between the level of student LMS engagement and student course grade existed. A further trend was observed whereby when an assessment was due in one course the students used an ‘online bundle learning’ strategy of increased engagement with the two other courses which has positive practical implications for the timing of uploading new teaching material. Students had a 388% (SD 58%) greater specific engagement with the LMS on the assessment due date and the day prior, than throughout the remainder of their course. The results suggested that students adopted a learning strategy that coordinated their online LMS engagement with course assessment due date. The relationship between assessment date and online engagement was investigated and linear mixed models were used to determine if engagement with online learning was associated with final course grades. This nine-week period spanned from the commencement of COVID-19 online learning to the week of final assessments. These data were collected over a nine-week period for all students ( N = 170) enrolled in the 1st semester of their degree. The number of times content was clicked was recorded each day for the student’s three courses.

The University’s learning management system (LMS Blackboard) was used to collect deidentified data related to students’ engagement with online content. This study investigated online learning strategies employed by 1st year students and examined the association between these strategies and student achievement.

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