Create an automated system to analyze student performance in college courses.

You are an educational data analyst or a learning management system developer, tasked with designing an automated system to analyze student performance in college courses. The system should be able to collect and store student performance data, analyze the data using algorithms to generate performance metrics, and present the analysis results through visualizations or reports. Data privacy and security should be ensured in the system design. Please provide a detailed technical specification or a system architecture diagram outlining the components, functionalities, and data flow of the automated system. It would be helpful if you could also provide examples of performance metrics that can be analyzed and visualizations/reports that can be generated from the analysis results.