Student engagement has become synonymous with the measurement of teaching and learning
quality at universities. The almost global adoption of learning management systems as a
technical solution to e-learning within universities and their ability to record and track user
behaviour provides the academy with an unprecedented opportunity to harness captured data
relating to student engagement. This is an exploratory study that aims to show how data from
learning management systems can be used as an indicator of student engagement and how
patterns in the data have changed with CQUniversity‟s recent adoption of Moodle as its
single learning management system.
Keywords: Student engagement, e-learning, academic analytics, LMS, Moodle, Blackboard.