“…The activity metrics available from software development platforms, including VCSs and issue-tracking systems, have already been used for various purposes in an educational context such as describing student behaviours [1,2,3,4,5], correlating these behaviours with outcomes [6,7,8], predicting grades with supervised machine learning approaches [9,10,11,12,13,14], profiling student behaviours [15,16], conformance checking [17,18] and as a marking aid [19].…”