TABLE 1.

List of independent variables

Attribute	Description
Gender	Student gender
Region	UK region, in which student lives a
Highest_education	The highest achieved education of the student
Imd_band	Percentile of the Index of Multiple Deprivation; see Noble et al. (2019) for details
Age_band	Student age band
Num_of_prev_attempts	Indicator whether the student attempted the course in previous years
Studied_credits	Credits studied in parallel by student, serves as the estimation of student workload
Disability	Indicator if student have disability
Cumulative_assessment_results	Weighted sum of all previous Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs): $a_{\mathrm{sum}}={\sum }_{n=1}^4{w}_n{a}_n,$ where ${\overrightarrow{w}}^T=\left(0.125,0.125,0.25,0.25\right)$ is vector of corresponding weights
Clicks_forumng	Sum of all clicks/actions student did in the discussion forum
Clicks_homepage	Sum of all clicks on course homepage
Clicks_oucontent	Sum of all views/clicks on TMAs assignments
Clicks_quiz	Sum of all clicks/attempts on nongraded quizzes
Clicks_subpage	Sum of all clicks when browsing the course web‐page

^a The complete list of regions can be found at https://bit.ly/3kKF1zs.