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You can use these to inform course evaluations; to ascertain what components of the course were viewed by students and how many times they were accessed, and look at individual participant logs to check their activity within Moodle.
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However you decide to use your Reports, it's important to be completely transparent with students and colleagues. Jisc's work on ethics has fed into a code of practice.
How do I use them?
To view any Reports for your Moodle space
Once in your Moodle course, look under Administration, expand Reports.
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Clicking the Logs link takes you to this page:
The reports on this page will allow you to filter course actions up until a year ago by user, date, resource/activity and action.
You can use this tool to see what a particular student (or member of staff) has been doing and when they last accessed the course, or a particular resource or activity.
For example, to see the last access for a particular participant, select their name from the 2nd drop-down menu that says All Participants.
In the 3rd drop-down menu, where it says Today and the date, choose All days.
To see the last time the student accessed the course, leave the remaining filters as they are and click Get these logs.
A list of all the actions the student has undertaken within this resource/activity in the past year will be displayed. These actions can be filtered using the 5th drop-down menu, where it says All actions.
The last time the student accessed this activity will be displayed at the top of the list.
By default, the information appears on the webpage, but you can also choose to download the filtered logs as a tab-delimited text file, excel file or ODS file (the ODS extension is for open source spreadsheet files like in Open Office).
To download the Logs, on the results page scroll to the bottom and choose the type of file you would like to download from the drop-down menu underneath 'Download table data as' and click Download. The default option (Comma separated values text file) is a good choice, as this can be opened in Excel or other spreadsheet software.
- Go to course administration settings and menu at the top of the course page and select 'Reports'.
2. You can get multiple types of reports for a course such as:
- Accessibility report
- Course completion
- Data manager
- Logs
- Live logs
- My feedback
- Activity report
- Course participation
2.a Accessibility report
The accessibility report gives the overall accessibility score of a course. This score is calculated based on the content of a course. Further, the report highlights the remaining issues, provides a detailed explanation of all issues, and suggests ways to rectify them.
To see the details of an accessibility issue and suggestions to rectify it, click on the issue and the following page will appear. The button 'what this means' provides an explanation of the accessibility issue and the button 'how to tag a pdf' provides suggestions on how to rectify it.
2.b Course completion
The course completion report provides details about course participants based on whether they have completed the course or the activities in the course.
- To view participant submissions and grades, click on the download button that is circled in the screenshot above.
- Then a page with information regarding submissions and grades will appear. There you can see when an assignment was opened and when it was due. Also, you can view all the submissions, as well as see how many participants have submitted an assignment, how many assignments have been graded, and how much time remains for the assignment.
2.c Date manager
In the date manager you can see and edit all the dated deadlines in a course and it's activities.
Further, you can set a specific date to allow submissions, a specific deadline, a cut-off date, a date to receive a grading reminder, as well as a date on which an activity is expected to be completed.
Once you set the dates on activities in a course click 'save' to save the changes.
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For more details, see the M67 - Date manager miniguide. |
2.d Logs
By clicking on the logs report you can generate a report for the activity of one or more users in a course on a specific date or for a specific activity,
2e Live logs
The Live logs from the past hour shows show activity on your a Moodle course within the past hour within in a pop-up window. This page automatically updates every minute.
2.f My feedback report
You can view and the feedback reports for every student for any activity in a course.
2.g Activity
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The activity report shows the numbers of views per resource or activity
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The Activity report and the last access. It can answer some general and specific questions at a glance, such as:
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The report shows all activity in the course on a single page, sorted by topic/week number. The start date for this report will be the start date in that Moodle space's Settings. Each item in the report displays with the number of times it has been viewed, by how many people, the date and time it was last accessed, and the number of days and hours since the last access in brackets.
2.h Course participation
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The course participation reports shows all actions for particular activities and resources on
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a course. A useful feature of the
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course participation is the option to send a message to all students who have not completed a certain action. Other options with selected users are to add a note or extend enrolment.
You can filter by role, so you can see just what tutors, course administrators or students collectively have been doing.
You can use the Course participation to send reminders to students to complete online activities.
To send a reminder to students, select an activity ( I have chosen quiz in this case ) and any other filters you wish to use and press press 'Go'.
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- group if you have groups set up.
- To send a message to these users, select the users you want and then where it
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- says With selected users... choose Send a message
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Further guidance on Course reports is available from moodledocsMoodle Docs. If you find any inaccurate or missing information you can even update this yourself (it's a communal wiki). If you have a specific question about the tool please contact the Digital Education team. |
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