Reports in Moodle are very powerful and 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. Reports can help in re-desiging your module for the new year and term. 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. 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 have produced a helpful screencast on using logs in Moodle to support student engagement.
How to start:
In your course, find your course administration block (left hand side!). Among the reports options you have various options to choose from.
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. |
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. |
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.