According to the University of Kansas School of Education, between 2017-2018 school year and 2020, the percentage of schools offering online classes jumped from a mere 13% to 75% Learning and teaching online is difficult but there is no indication that the trend will slow down any time soon. There are dozens of companies cropping up every year that promise to make online instruction engaging and easier for student and instructor. American education is run on data and the use of learning analytics will make analysis of the massive amounts of data collected from e-learning efficient and useful. The US Department of Education says "Online learning systems have the ability to capture learner behaviors and can operate on the data to provide a variety of stakeholders with feedback to improve teaching, learning, and educational decision making." But the road is bumpy ahead. More research must be done in regards to ethical collection and implementation of data. More stakeholders must be invited to the preverbal table in order to ensure privacy and integrity. How do institutes get informed consent from students to collect and analyze their data? Where is the line between providing early intervention and tracking? These questions must be answered before the true benefits of learning analytics can be realized.