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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a disruptive technology that has aimed to democratize access to education. These are courses that are offered openly, generally on a MOOC platform such as Open edX. These are courses that are offered openly, generally on a MOOC platform such as Open edX, and are taken by hundreds of thousands of students autonomously (without the presence or guidance of a teacher). When a MOOC is closed to a smaller number of students and is used privately and integrated into the academic curriculum, it is known as a Small Private Online Course (SPOC). SPOCs, unlike MOOCs, require the presence and guidance of a teacher while students take the course. However, the Open edX platform lacks visualizations to assist students and teachers in making decisions during the course. In other words, follow-up and monitoring is scarce and limited. For this reason, the present work proposes to develop a component called XBlock that implements, on the one hand, visualizations for students in order to account for their learning process; and, on the other hand, visualizations for teachers so that they can monitor, follow up and give feedback to students in a SPOC. To achieve this, the methodology adapted from LATUX was used for the planning, design and implementation of an XBlock and also for the evaluation of the visualization of the dashboard. As a result of the evaluation, it was found that about 80% of the students perceive the developed XBlock as a positive stimulus to redirect student behavior. In addition, it contributes as a support for teachers when designing teaching strategies that allow them to monitor and provide better feedback to students so that they can successfully complete the course.
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