What LearnBoard is

LearnBoard is analytics for Moodle. It reads your learning platform and shows what is happening in it as dashboards, cards, charts and tables, with an AI assistant that answers questions about the same data. It is for the people who run learning, and for learners who want to see their own progress.

At a glance

• Reads Moodle, never writes to it. The product states it plainly: “LearnBoard reads your learning platform read-only. It never writes to it.”
• One workspace per organisation, with its own data, its own people and its own look.
• What each person sees is set by their role, and team leads and learners are limited to their own people.
• A Moodle plugin brings LearnBoard charts into Moodle and lets people sign in from there.

The Executive overview, where most people start.

Who is it for?

Workspace administrators

Connect the learning platform, brand the workspace, invite colleagues and choose what each of them can see.

Managers and analysts

Read every screen, compare cohorts, find learners at risk, download the figures and set up dashboards.

Teachers and team leads

Signing in from Moodle, they see the same screens counted over their own Moodle groups only.

Learners

See their own progress, assessments and certificates in My Learning, and ask the assistant about their own records.

The details of each role are on Roles and what each person sees.

How does LearnBoard read Moodle?

Each workspace has a data source: the Moodle site it reads. A workspace administrator connects it once, from the setup walkthrough or from Admin console, Data sources. There are three ways to connect:

• The Moodle plugin. Install the free LearnBoard Moodle plugin and paste one code. This is the way the setup walkthrough suggests first.
• A direct database connection. Point LearnBoard at a read-only database user for your Moodle database. The connection is tested before anything is saved.
• An SQL dump. Upload a copy of the Moodle database instead of connecting live.

A workspace can hold more than one data source, for example a live Moodle and a dump taken from it, but exactly one is active at a time. Every figure on every screen comes from the active one, and the bar under the top bar names it. See Finding your way around.

Why read-only matters

LearnBoard never changes your learning platform. Every question the AI assistant turns into a database query passes a read-only check before it runs, so even a badly worded question cannot alter Moodle. On the sign-in screen the product describes this as “Read-only enforcement at the database, application and PDO layers.”

What is a workspace?

A workspace is your organisation’s own space in LearnBoard. It holds:

• the data source it reads;
• the people who can sign in, each with a role;
• its branding: logo and colours;
• its plan, which decides which sections of dashboards it can open;
• its saved dashboards, alerts and scheduled reports.

Every LearnBoard account belongs to one workspace. The bar under the top bar shows which one you are in.

What is in the menu?

The left rail groups the screens into sections: Insight, Learner, Universal, Skills, K-12, Higher Ed, Corporate, Government, VET, Compliance and Tools. A Dashboards section appears at the top as soon as you save your first dashboard. The industry sections, such as K-12 or VET, are separate packs that a workspace’s plan may or may not include. See Plans and locked screens.

Words used on every screen

LearnBoard counts the same things the same way everywhere. “Learners”, “enrolments”, “completion rate”, “at risk” and “active” each have one meaning across the product. They are defined on the definitions page.

Related

Quick startFrom first sign-in to first insight.

Roles and what each person seesWhat Admin, Manager, Viewer, Team lead and Learner can open.

Moodle pluginConnect Moodle with the plugin and show charts inside Moodle.

DefinitionsThe shared meaning of learners, enrolments and the rest.