Analyze Lesson Performance in Skyllful Studio
The Lessons Dashboard sits in Skyllful Studio and shows where Learners struggle inside a Lesson, one step at a time, and this index explains which of its five tools answers which question, the order to work in, and when to use it instead of the Skyllful IQ Curriculum lens.
What does this cover, and where does it live?
The Lessons Dashboard is a tool inside Skyllful Studio, not part of Skyllful IQ. You reach it from a Learning Program rather than from an Assignment, and it works on your content rather than on a group of Learners.
It shows how Learners are doing in each Lesson, step by step. The percentages and colors point at the exact steps where Learners tap the wrong thing, so you can improve the instruction, the screen, or the design before more Learners hit the same wall.
This is the quality-assurance loop after a Lesson goes live. The dashboard tells you where the problem is, and the tools connected to it tell you why.
Should you be here, or in the IQ Curriculum lens?
Both answer questions about content, so it is worth knowing which one you need. They are different tools in different components and neither replaces the other.
Question |
Where to look |
|---|---|
| Which Lessons are not performing for this group of Learners? | The Curriculum lens in Skyllful IQ, scoped to one Assignment |
| Which step inside a Lesson is the problem? | The Lessons Dashboard, here in Skyllful Studio |
| Where exactly did Learners tap, and why did they miss? | The Heatmap Viewer, here |
| Did my content change actually help? | The Lesson Versions Dashboard, here |
| Who should I tell about it? | Message Lesson Designers, on the Curriculum lens in IQ |
The short version: Skyllful IQ tells you which Lesson and which mode. The Lessons Dashboard tells you which step and whether your fix worked.
When should you use these tools?
- After a Lesson has been published long enough to collect Learner attempts.
- When completion or readiness numbers look off and you need to know which Lesson, and which step, is responsible.
- After you revise a Lesson, to confirm the change actually reduced errors.
- As a routine check on your highest-stakes or highest-volume Lessons.
Which tool does what?
Start here |
Use this tool |
To answer |
|---|---|---|
| Get oriented | Lessons Dashboard Overview | What is the dashboard, who uses it, and what do the colors mean? |
| Find the problem Lesson and step | Read the Step-by-Step Grid | Which Lessons and steps have the most incorrect actions? |
| Focus the data | Lesson Dashboard Filter and View Options | How do I narrow the view by mode, time range, or Learner group? |
| Understand why Learners miss | Use the Lesson Step Heatmap Viewer | Where exactly are Learners tapping, and why are they missing the target? |
| Confirm a fix worked | Lesson Versions Dashboard | Did my content change improve performance across published versions? |
What order should you work in?
Step |
Action |
|---|---|
| 1 | Open the Lessons Dashboard from your Learning Program and scan the grid for red and yellow cells. |
| 2 | Read Total Incorrect and Total Attempts together, to separate a genuinely difficult step from one that is simply attempted often. |
| 3 | Click a red step cell to open the Heatmap Viewer and see where Learners actually tapped relative to the correct control. |
| 4 | Decide whether the instruction, the screen, or the step design needs work, and revise the Lesson. |
| 5 | After the revision publishes, return to the Lesson Versions Dashboard to confirm the new version performs better than the old one. |
Note: Step 2 is the one worth slowing down on. A step with a high incorrect count and a high attempt count may simply be popular. The same count on a rarely attempted step is a much stronger signal that something is wrong.
FAQ
Why is this in the same section as Skyllful IQ? Both answer questions about how training is performing, so they sit together under Track Progress and Performance. The Lessons Dashboard is a Skyllful Studio tool, and you reach it from a Learning Program rather than from an Assignment.
Do I need an Assignment to use the Lessons Dashboard? No. It works on Lessons, and you open it from the Learning Program. Skyllful IQ is the one scoped to an Assignment.
Nothing appears in the grid for my Lesson. The dashboard reports on Learner attempts, so a Lesson that has just been published, or one nobody has worked yet, has nothing to show.
The numbers here do not match what the Curriculum lens told me. They should not necessarily match. The Curriculum lens reports on the Learners in one Assignment. The Lessons Dashboard reports on the Lesson.
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