Tracking participants

You can track the activities of students and designers in your course using the reports tool found in the Administration Block.

Click on Reports in the Administration block to get the Reports page that will detail for you all the activity of the participants in your course.

The Following page will open:

Course logs show activity within the course. It allows instructors to see what resources are being used and when, or check that an individual student has viewed the resource they claim to have read.

You can filter the results (1) by selecting a single participant or all participants. You can also specify dates and to get logs for only specific activities.

Once you click on Show these logs (2), you will get a list of results (3) with the Time, the IP Address of the computer from which the participant logged in to your course, Full name, Action done by the participant, and some additional Information that describes the activity.

Note: You can track the activities of both designers and students. So using course logs you can also track your activities in your course.

Live logs from the past hour

This link in the middle of the Report page (see above image), shows all the activity in the last hour, with a single click. For an administrator on the site homepage, it calls up all site activity. A teacher in a course, will see just the activity for that course in the last hour.

Note that these reports have active links. For example, this allows the teacher to click on the page a student was watching. Here is an example of a live log.

Activity reports

There is a detailed help button for these reports. Generating an Activity report is a two stage process. First select the period, user type, and action type. This will bring you to the participation report screen with a list all the users and instances that meet the filter of the first step. You can further narrow down the type of activity.

Reports can be emailed to participants in the course.