Reports in Moodle will tell you what your students have been doing in a module and when. You can use reports to provide you with information on how students are interacting with content and activities on your module. But there
There are limitations to what that information communicates. Information is nothing without interpretation and human understanding. Information / data cannot shed light on intention, motivation, cognitive uptake and so on.
However, moodle report generates data that allows you to ask questions. Use moodle reports to give yourself editing feedback, ask for example:
Are there activities that nobody interacts with? And if If so, what might be the reason? You can identify which content might need improved signposting to encourage students to engage with it. You can also make a decision to remove content that has been under-utilised by students or consider presenting it in a more meaningful way. why not? Do they need to be reviewed, or would stronger signposting encourage student engagement?
Moodle reports provide
a log of activity in your module.
a course activity report, showing the number of views for each activity and resource.
a participation report for a particular activity.
graphs and tables of user activity.
Moodle.org have produced a helpful screencast on using logs in Moodle to support student engagement.
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Report | Report contents |
Logs | Logs allows you to pull specific activity reports from your module. You can filter the report by:
You can decide to view all the information on a page within Moodle or download it as a CSV or Excel file. |
Live logs | Shows all activity, as above, but only for the full past hour. This can be useful if you are planning on making a change to an activity as you can check if it will impact on any users who are on the module and interacting with the activity. |
Activity report | Shows views for individual resources in the module, and when they were last accessed, sorted by topic. Individual activity reports |
Course participation | Allows you to run a report on participation in a module with the ability to:
It then gives you information on whether users in the user group you have selected have undertaken the activity. You can choose to send a message to those people. For example, you might want to encourage students who have not posted to a forum to make some contribution. |
My feedback | This is a plugin for students to access all their feedback quickly. |
Activity completion | Completion of all activities for all users in the course. Please see Activity completion guidance. |
Statistics | You select a Course, a Report type and a Time period. The statistics are presented in a graph and a table |
Last access to course | To get an overview of data about when a student/s last accessed a module/s. You might then want to contact students who have never access the module a few weeks into start of term. |
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This guide is based on this one: https://sleguidance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Moodle/pages/5341449/Reports by City University London, licensed under attribution-sharealike 3.0 Unported License. |