The article considers the assessment of students' independent work in a distance learningon the basis of digital educational traces. Independent work in a mixed training can be performed on the online platform LMS, and the use of educational digital data allows you to study the specifics of student interaction with the course materials and the ability to solve the problem. For the assessment of time and the quality of independent work of students is determined by a set of criteria and indicators, selected quantitative metrics and offers a methodology that can be used to assess the progress of each student. The method includes algorithms for assessing the success of independent work on the basis of empirical data educational analytics. The developed algorithms allow to interpret the information on performance of independent work, to evaluate its success and to correct a trajectory of training of the student.