The two-year project started in 2016 and was funded through a Strategic Priority Commissioned Grant by the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) of the Australian Government, and addresses the challenges faced by Australian Higher institutions to improve the quality of the student experience within the context of increasing enrolment numbers over the past years. The project is led by The University of Sydney (USYD) in collaboration with University of Technology Sydney (UTS), University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), University of South Australia (UniSA), University of Texas at Arlington, and The University of Edinburgh.

As part of its deliverables, the OnTask project developed a software tool that gathers and assesses data about student’s activities throughout the semester and allows instructors to design personalised feedback with suggestions about their learning strategies. By providing frequent suggestions about specific tasks in the course, students are able to quickly adjust their learning progressively.

The tool is LMS agnostic and receives its data from various sources such as video engagement, assessments, student information systems, electronic textbooks, discussion forums, etc. Instructors and educational designers can use the platform to connect large data sets about students with concrete and frequent actions to support their learning.