This technology has been around for a couple of years now. 2 years ago, I was working for a video platform company, installing our product at few of the top-tie

This technology has been around for a couple of years now. 2 years ago, I was working for a video platform company, installing our product at few of the top-tier universities. Some courses required watching videos of recorded lectures and external material, as part of the syllabus. Our system reported back the watching habits of the students: did they watch all the videos? Did they watch the entire thing, or just scrubbed to the end? Did they watch at the assigned time, or wait till the day before finals to cram them all? We could provide very good statistics. An algorithm could predict the student's chance of success in the course, based on his watching habits, way before the course ended. To the best of my knowledge, the data from the algorithm was never factored directly into the course's grade, but rather was used to counsel students on their studying methodology.