Did you know that you can look up student activity to verify that they have reviewed material, participated in course activities, and completed required exercises? The reports and logs in the CLE are a great way to validate whether or not students are keeping pace within a given course. Log reports can be configured by activity, time frame, student/user, group, actions, and more. Reports can also be exported for manipulation in Excel or other spreadsheet programs.
There are five different types of reports that you can generate at the course level:
- Logs
- Live Logs
- Activity Reports
- Course Participation
- Activity Completion
Course logs allow instructors to see which resources or activities have been accessed and when. You can check to see if an individual student has viewed a specific resource or participated in a particular activity. You can limit your search to a specific day, or get results for a specified period. Logs are particularly helpful for viewing an individual student’s forum posts over the semester.
Run a Log Report:
- Log into the CLE and access the course for which you are running a log report
- On your course page, click the Reports tab in the Secondary navigation bar
- Click the drop-down menu under the Quiz navigation bar and click Logs
- A new page will open and display an array of options and drop-down menus. Choose one or more options to narrow the search results
- Click Get these logs. The page will refresh displaying logs based on your chosen filters
- To download the report as a file, use the Download table data from the drop-down menu to select a file type
- Click Download (at the bottom of the report) to download the report file to your computer
Log Report Example
This functionality is accessible to the predefined roles of manager, instructor, and non-editing instructor, which allows a user to view live logs from the past hour.
Run a Live Log Report:
- Log into the CLE and access the course for which you are running a log report
- On your course page, click the Reports tab in the Secondary navigation bar
- Click the drop-down menu under the Quiz navigation bar and click Live logs
- A new page will open and allow a user to view live Logs from the past hour
- Live updates can be stopped and restarted by clicking the Pause live updates button
Live Log Report Example
Activity reports generate a simple unfiltered report showing all activity in the course that you can then narrow down by date.
Run an Activity Report:
- Log into the CLE and access the course for which you are running an activity report.
- On your course page, click the Reports tab in the Secondary navigation bar.
- Click the drop-down menu under the Quiz navigation bar and click and click Activity logs
- A new page will open listing course activities.
- Items are listed in order of appearance in the course sections.
- The Activity column shows the icon for the activity type and the name of the activity.
- The Views column shows how many times each item has been viewed.
- The Last access column shows the date the item was last viewed, and elapsed time since it was last viewed.
Activity Report Example
A course participation report provides an easy way to monitor general participation in your course and is particularly useful for monitoring activity in forums. You can see if students have viewed readings or forums, and if (and how many times) they have posted in the forum or activity.
Run a Course Participation Report:
- Log into the CLE and access the course for which you are running a course participation report
- On your course page, click the Reports tab in the Secondary navigation bar
- Click the drop-down menu under the Quiz navigation bar and click Course participation
- A new page will open and display an array of options and drop-down menus. Choose one or more options to narrow the search results
- Click Go. The page will refresh displaying logs based on your chosen filters:
- Users matching the criteria you selected will be listed in a table sorted by Name.
- Under All actions you can see whether (and how many times) they have completed the action
Course Participation Report Example
Activity completion generates a list of all participants and displays whether they have completed activities.
Activity Completion reports are only available if Enable completion is turned on in your course and your course contains activities.
Activity Completion reports are only available if a
- Enable completion is turned on in your course and your course contains activities
- Click on the activity, which will take you to the activity page.
- Click on Settings in the Activity navigation bar towards the top of the page. This will open the activity Settings page and select Yes for Enable completion tracking.
- Activities have Completion tracking enabled
- To disable Completion tracking, from the drop-down menu, choose do not indicate activity completion.
(1) Edit settings:
(2) Disable do not indicate activity completion:
Activity Completion Report Example
Activity Completion Key