
The UCS, UFB and CCB Elections category is a dummy course that contains candidate statements, endorsements, etc. for the elections and presumably, all undergraduates are 'enrolled' in this dummy course on the system. This gives me a large enough sample to look at general patterns of student activity over a general 24 hour period on a weekday. It is actually quite interesting! It looks like peak hours of academic activity are in the mid-afternoon 2-3ish and at night. In the morning there is a steep increase from 9 to noon and there is a noticeable drop around dinnertime.
Of course, this is as much of a graph of my own activity as of general student activity (since I can only get the numbers when I log on to the system myself). I am almost never up past midnight and I generally get up between 7 and 7.30am so there is a big data hole between midnight and 7. I would love to fill in some of it, particularly the 12mn to 2? 3? 4? am part because I want to know what time the number starts falling and people go to bed. But my sleep > data on other people's sleep so I may never know. (If you are a late night-early morning worker and want to help me collect data on this you are most welcome to!)


*people from Singapore: MyCourses is pretty much exactly like the NUS IVLE, but with a clunkier interface.
ahhhhhh this is so interesting!
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Natalie, your blog is so cool!
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