Professors new to Slack probably won't spend much time playing around with its analytics. Still, there's quite a bit that you can glean from its user data while concurrently respecting user privacy.
I was curious about the relationship between days spent in Slack and number of messages sent. To this end, I exported data on aggregate messages from the workspace that I used for my online, seven-week Business Intelligence course last semester. Again, I wasn't interested in what students were writing to each otherβand Slack doesn't let its users view others' private direct messages (DMs) by default anyway. As such, I counted a simple one-word "yes" message as a 200-word rant against a slacker teammate (pun intended).
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