Analytics and Recommendations block uses charts and tables which are colour coded so students can quickly see they participation.
Students can see single analytics about their participation in the course. Teachers can see single, comparative analytics and global analytics (all students together) too.
Morover, the block shows recommendations for students about what activities they should work to improve their final grade. It shows too a estimate final grade according with a reference course.
"The educational thought experiment I wish to undertake concerns curriculum. Not the specific content of curriculum, but the idea of curriculum, what any curriculum is, regardless of subject. Like Copernicus, I propose that for the sake of better results we need to turn conventional wisdom on it is head: let's see what results if we think of action, not knowledge, as the essence of an education; let's see what results from thinking of future ability, not knowledge of the past, as the core; let's see what follows, therefore, from thinking of content knowledge as neither the aim of curriculum nor the key building blocks of it but as the offshoot of learning to do things now and for the future."
More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world.
This could be a useful addition.
"The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students.It visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.It is colour coded so students can quickly see what they have and have not completed/viewed.The teacher selects which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included in the Progress Bar and when they should be completed/viewed."
And now, new ds106 TV http://www.justin.tv/ds106tv/b/282994702? I suspect here's an awful lot of copyrighted music played over the ds106 radio waves/pipes, but I wouldn't know since internet radio protocols seem to be blocked :-(