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In this video, I'm going to introduce you to the various reports available to you as
an instructor. I think you'll find these reports are an extremely powerful tool for you to
keep up with what your students are doing. Now, I should point out first that we are
in the Sandbox, no actual student information is being released in this video. Also, I'm
currently logged in as an instructor named Zoe, so the view that I see here is exactly
the same view you will see on our live server.
Now the reports are available to you in a place -- in a place called the Navigation
Block. My Navigation Block is docked to the left side of the screen, yours may be on the
right side of the screen. It's exactly the same, just whichever side it happens to be
on. In the Navigation Block, under My Courses, and the specific course you're interested
in, you'll find Reports, and there are a number of reports to look at.
I'm going to start with Activity Completion report. This is a report that will show you
all of your students, and all of the activities in your class. And, if the student has completed
those activities, there'll be a checkbox. This is a great way for you to quickly check
and see which activities have been completed and which ones are still due to be completed.
Now, there's another activity report called the CJCLDS activity report; this is a Joule
version of the activity report. It looks about the same, oh, it’s a bit prettier. The only
difference here is, I can now select the activities for only a specific topic in my class, oh,
for example topic one, and it will show me only those activities. So, again, I can keep
up with what the students are doing. If I want to visit one of the activities, these
are hotlinks; I can click on them and go into those activities. I can also click on the
student's name to get -- send a note to the student. So, those are the activities reports.
They’re wonderful reports; a way for you to figure out what your students are doing
in your class.
Next, let's look at course completion. Now the course completion report needs to first
be set up, and you would do that. You would go into your course completion settings and
you will determine what has to be completed by the student in order for you to consider
the entire course completed. Oh, do they have to complete all of the forums, do they have
to complete all of the assignments. Once you do that, then you can come to this screen
and find out which of your students have actually completed the entire course.
Next, the dashboard. Now, for this Sandbox activity, the dashboard only displays activities
for the past seven days and here in the Sandbox my students haven't accessed the Sandbox in
more than seven days, so all of these things are empty. However, on a real class, on a
live class, you would see recent activity displayed as bar graphs out here. Forum posts
displayed as bar graphs. It's a wonderful little report and it will show you at a glance
if your students are working on your course.
The next report, open up Reports again, are the log files. This is a huge, huge benefit
for you. You can gather all kinds of information from the log files. First, I can select whatever
class I'm interested in. Now, I’m logged in as Zoe, remember, and Zoe only has access
to one class. If you had three or four classes, though, they would be listed here. You can
choose which participants you're interested in. Oh, let's just look at Abbie’s work.
You can choose all of her work for one day, or all days, you can choose only specific
activities or all activities, you can choose whether you want to see what she has viewed,
or what she's actually worked on, or all actions, and you can actually download this information
in an Excel spreadsheet if you want. I'm going to set this up so I can see all of Abbie’s
activities here on this screen and Moodle lists it. Now, folks, Moodle will record virtually
every click of the mouse that every student makes in your class, and you can go in and
actually track their work. Oh, for instance, I know that on December 24, Abbie viewed a
wiki in our class. She looked at one of the sections in our class. One of our sessions
is named Welcome to Class. Let me scroll on down the page, here. I can see that she looked
at the Turn It In assignment. Scroll on down the page. Here is for she's viewed an assignment
and then she actually uploaded it. So, on October 3. I know that Abbie’s uploaded
an assignment. Let me scroll on down here. Here's a quiz. Abbie, I see, first viewed
the quiz on October 3 at 1:20. She started working on it, she attempted it; and, by the
way, these “continue attempt” things are generated every time she clicks on the quiz
to progress to another page in the quiz, if the page has several, excuse me, if the quiz
has several pages. She looked at her summary, and finally, she closed the attempt. She finished
her quiz. So, she started this particular quiz at 1:20, she finished it at 1:22 -- didn't
take very long. Then, she immediately went back in to check on her score. Folks, with
these log files, you can actually determine exactly what your students have done. I often
have instructors write to me they say, “can you tell me did the student look at this assignment,
did the student actually submit this assignment.” Well, yes, I can, but you can too. You can
go right into these log files and find out exactly what your students have done.
Now, the next thing we have are the Live Logs. The Live Logs will open up a window and let
you know what's going on in your class right this second; and you can see right now the
only person logged in is the instructor, Zoe. That's what I would expect. Oh, let me get
this down here where you can see it better.
The next report would be the Activity Report. This is a report that lets you know what activity
has been going on in your class. I know for instance that I've had seven views of the
news forum and the last view was on September 22. I’ve had 13 views of the course procedure
sheet and the last one was on October 3, and so forth.
Course Participation gives me a quick view so that I can see what the participation is
in my course. Oh, for instance, here's a forum called About Dreaming. I want to look back
for the entire class, all 11 months. I want to see only the student’s work, and I want
to see all actions, and will check about this one. I see that Charlene has had 10 actions
in here, Abbie has had 10. Now, I can change this slightly, look for only posts in this
particular forum, and I see Charlene has posted three times. I can look at views in this forum
and I can see where, oh, for instance David has viewed seven times, Charlene has viewed
seven times and so forth. This is a great report that will let you check to see what's
going on in your class at any given time.
Now, the Activity Completion I've already shown you. We took a look at that earlier.
And Statistics. Now, I have not activated statistics on the Sandbox server because they
are pretty intensive as far as using up server resources. However, on the live server we
do have statistics enabled. Let me show you the statistics for our Faculty Resource Center.
In the Faculty Resource Center, you can see since January 14 until today, January 21,
when I am recording this video, this is what's happening in the Faculty Resource Center.
I can choose for all roles or just students or just instructors or whatever. I can choose
one week or two weeks or whatever I want; and Moodle will generate all of these statistics
for me and show me what's happening in my class. Now, it does take a few seconds to
generate a new statistical analysis, oh, the Moodle server’s working pretty hard; and
there we go. Now, for a two-week period, you can see what my activity has been. I can scroll
down the page and get more specific information. Oh, today, January 21, I see I have 65 student
views in my Faculty Resource Center; and so that's what you would get with the statistics
report.
These are the reports available to you. I think you're going to find that you can get
lots of information about what your students are doing in your class with these reports.
Especially useful to me are the log files. That's about it for this video, give it a
try, I think you'll be amazed at what information is available.
And, remember, help is only a phone call or click away.