Analytics to Improve Learner Success

Optimize operations with exclusive data and insights.

Institutions and content providers need comprehensive insights for data-driven decision-making, but often lack easily accessible data. VitalSource’s unique breadth and depth of data offers exclusive insights into engagement, performance, and operations through intuitive visualizations and smart filters. Our near real-time Caliper feed seamlessly aggregates data from multiple platforms and sources to better understand student behavior and deliver a learning advantage to every student.

Backed by Learning Science

To scale and drive student success, you must start with research. Through our peer-reviewed, award-winning learning science research, we replicate key findings, develop and study new technologies, and partner with instructors to identify impactful implementation practices. By partnering with VitalSource, you access data and analytics that are rooted in learning science research and forward-thinking solutions, evolving to the needs of education and provide proven active learning environments for students.

See the power of actionable data.

Get a panoramic view of student behavior that helps drive engagement, achieve better outcomes, and support your goals.

Campus Store Managers

Grow store reach and increase digital with insights into course materials delivery programs. By leveraging program growth data, value, and more, campus store managers optimize operations and expand impact across campus.

Academic Librarians

With the industry's largest source of data, VitalSource offers exclusive insights at the student, book, and course level, and allows libraries to easily access COUNTER reports and MARC records.

Institutional Leaders

Assess the overall value and effectiveness of programs with engagement dashboards and growth feedback analytics, leading to improved retention and outcomes.

Instructors

Access data to better understand the impact of course materials choices. Instructor dashboards look at student usage and behavior, so instructors can identify at-risk students and intervene earlier in the semester.

Content Providers

Leverage detailed reporting to drive instructor adoption, track content usage, and monitor enrollment data, ensuring full sales visibility and timely adoption intervention. Exclusive insights ensure accurate content delivery, pricing, and proper compensation, giving you greater control and the ability to grow your pipeline.

Unlock the VitalSource Advantage

Delivering a Learning Advantage for the modern student calls for a new set of digital-first capabilities. How many of these nine requirements are you delivering?

Privacy & Security

Deter potential threats and effortlessly provide student access without compromising Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with VitalSource’s security and defense strategies. Stringent privacy and security controls offer optimal performance and reliability, proactive vulnerability management, and 24/7 monitoring.

AI, Meet Learning Science

Ensure that you are always compliant, ahead of the standards, and are always ready to navigate the next disruption point thanks to our industry leaning learning science research team and our ahead of market investments.

Global Scalability with Full Integrity

A consistent user experience worldwide with full SOC II compliance, accessibility, and scalability for every customer.

Accessible Convenience

All learners deserve the tools they need to thrive. From content provider to institution to student, it should be easy and convenient to deliver and access the highest quality digital course materials - no special versions required.

Renowned Domain Expertise

We have the largest customer success team in the industry alongside 24/7 support capabilities, the industry's leading learning science research team, and the highest rated eReader. Our operational velocity means you have tools and systems that are built to work and to keep partners on track.

Unifying Experience

A standard, global experience, across publishing partners that's easy for student and institutions alike. Start learning on day-one.

Predictable Affordability

High quality course materials that are available at a price that students can count on and plan for, no surprise costs.

Actionable Data & Insights

Institutions and content providers get comprehensive, near real-time data and insights at the student, book, and course levels, empowering them to optimize strategies, improve learning outcomes, and enhance decision-making.

Reliable Infrastructure

Learners deserve always-on resiliency: best-in-class cloud services and content distribution networks deliver content with full integrity and over 300 global end points for content access and 99.99% uptime.

"The adoption metadata from VitalSource doesn't just enhance the accuracy of our IA/EA sales pipeline; it also drives ongoing instructor engagement from term to term."

- Ann Kennedy Harris. Director, Digital Program Operations, Wiley

“Before, we had no idea how students were accessing the content. With these analytics, we could see if they were reading the book when they should.”

- Stephen Livesey, Kaplan Open Learning

Analytics & Insights