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About Reports
Reports are a useful way for you to track your students' progress through your course. You are able to generate reports that track which Moodle activities & resources your students have viewed or list what activities need to be completed.
NOTE!: students on the main RRU Moodle server are able to save the course site to PDF and view it offline using the compile course feature, so students may spend time with course resources offline which will not be visible in the reports.
There are multiple types of Reports available:
- Logs
- Live logs
- Activity report
- Course Participation
- Student consent
Reports are listed in the Administration block.
Reports
Logs
Moodle logs course activity for all course participants. You can generate a report based on a number or variables chosen from the Log pull-down menus:
- the course name
- all participants or an individual student
- all dates or a particular date
- all activities or just one activity
- all actions or just one type of action
Once you have chosen the options from the pull-down menus, click on the Get these logs button to generate the report.
You can now see at a glance when a student last visited the course, and what actions were performed:
Keep in mind that while you can see when a student viewed a resource, such as a page or book, you cannot tell if they actually read or engaged with the material.
Logs can be useful if a student is not participating in the course (for example, not posting to a forum) and you want to see if that student has visited the course site.
Course logs are kept for a limited time, so you may not be able to check student activity for the entire run of the course.
Live logs
Clicking on Live logs shows course activity as it's happening, updated every 60 seconds.
Activity Report
If you want to see how often the various course activities have been accessed by all course participants, then use the Activity report.
Course Participation
A Course Participation report for a particular activity can be generated. Choose from a number of variables:
- the Activity module you want to review
- Look back - how far you want to look back (days or weeks)
- Show only - the role to review
- Show actions - post or view
Once you have chosen the variables, click Go to generate the report.
The settings above would allow you to see what students viewed the Unit 1: Description at any time.
The output of this report tells us that Larry Learner has viewed it while Sandy Beach has not:
A useful feature of the Course Participation report is the option to send a message to one or more students. So using our example, you may want to send a message to the student who hasn’t visited Unit 1: Description.
Click on Select all ‘No' option to select only those students who haven’t viewed the unit description, then choose Send a message from the With selected users... pull-down menu, followed by OK to open the messaging window and compose a message to send.
From here you can send a message to everyone who has not viewed this resource.
Student consent
Student consent indicates whether there are any students who have not consented to using Cloud-Based Learning sites. This is currently only available on the main RRU Moodle server.
Individual Activity Reports
Individual activity reports generate various reports on a single course participant.
Navigate to the Course Community block, and click Participants. Note that this block may also be called the People block, and some courses may not have this block at all.
Click on the student you wish to view individual reports on:
In this example, after clicking on Larry Learner we see that the Administration block shows options to view activity reports for Larry:
Today's Logs
Today's logs shows student activity in the current day. Below the chart, but not shown here, will be a detailed listing of each hit on the course site.
All Logs
All logs shows student activity over the duration of the course. Below the chart, but not shown here, will be a detailed listing of each hit on the course site.
Outline Report
Outline report shows an overview of student activity in course activities and resources.
Complete report
Complete report will show all activity from this student in detail, including submissions and forum posts. This is convenient way to quickly review a student's forum posts.
Grade
This is the same grade report that students are usually able to see of themselves.
Activity & Course Completion
If Course completion and Activity completion have been enabled in your course then you will be able to generate these reports, as well.
Activity completion allows the you to set completion criteria in a specific activity's settings. A check (tick) appears next to the activity when the student meets this criteria. The criterion might be viewing, receiving a certain score or a student marking the activity as complete. The activity completion report generates a table that indicates what activities have been completed by each the student.
In the example below, you can see which students have completed 2 course activities.
Course completion shows if a course has been completed. It can show the progress a student is making towards finishing the course according to specific criteria set-up in the course activities. The criteria can include meeting an activity's grade level or a manual checking complete by either the student and/or instructor. The table generated by the course completion report indicates the activities that have been completed towards course completion.
In the example below you can see which students have completed one of the course activities and whether they have completed the course.
