Currently, most decisions in the academic settings in Latin American HEIs are based on preconceptions or feelings. If data is used, it is in the form of database reports that only provide the most basic level of information. Due to the last decade modernization of academic systems in most Latin American HEIs, there is a large amount of data being produced every day, but this data is usually ignored.This project aims to build local capacity in Latin American HEIs to create, adapt, implement and adopt Learning Analytics tools to improve academic decision making processes. These tools will facilitate the process and analysis of large amount of data produced by the different educational process that occur inside Latin American HEIs (registration, academic performance, online systems usage, etc.). Stakeholders will use the output of these tools to inform and support their decisions. These evidence-based decision making process improves the performance and quality of the education inside the HEI.To be able to develop the local capacity to create, adapt and use Learning Analytics tools in Latin America, first a framework that describe the methodological, technical, institutional, ethical and communal aspects of the deployment of Learning Analytics in the context of Latin American HEIs should be developed by the project. Moreover, the project will adapt two existing tools created originally in the context of Europe to the Latin American context. One will be directed to academic administrators and the other, to professors and counselors. Both of these tools will be piloted to test their efficacy.The final result of the project will be the compilation of the LALA Handbook, a guide containing the LALA Methodology, the Infrastructure recommendation and the adoption experiences and best-practices gained during the pilot. This handbook will be the guiding resources to any other Latin American HEI interested in adopting Learning Analytics to modernize their operations.