Course overview report

An administrator can generate course overview reports in Administration > Site administration > Reports > Course overview. Statistics must be enabled first.

You can choose to view reports of the most active courses or the most participatory courses over a certain time period. Results are displayed in a bar chart and in a table.

These reports refer to the concepts of Activity, Views and Posts.

Report examples

• Report examples - click on any chart to enlarge
• 

  Chart of top 20 participatory courses)

• 

  Most active courses

• 

  Most active courses (weighted)

Report measures

What is Activity?

Activity = number of Views + number of Posts from users in the course, over the period of interest.

What's the difference between a View and a Post?

• "Views" are instances of a user accessing a Moodle resource or activity to "read" or download it.
• "Posts" are more active responses such as: submit a quiz, submit an assignment, respond to a discussion forum etc. Posts are not just discussion forum posts!

What is the Participation ratio?

'Most participatory courses (posts/views)'

Participation ratio = posts / views

- in other words the number of posts divided by the number of views

'Most participatory courses (enrolments)'

Participation ratio = active users / users enrolled

Weeks periods

- the Users column is the average of the total number of enrolled users each day during the last N weeks.
- the Active users column is an average of the active enrolled users each day during the period.

Years periods

- the Users column is the average of the total number of enrolled users each month during the last N years.
- the Active users column is an average of the active enrolled users each month during the same period.

Active users are users with activity in the time period specified.

Available reports

Here's a list of View and Post action reports, with a brief summary of the type of reports.

Core module reports

• Assignment Views: view ; Posts: upload
• Chat Views: view, view all, report; Posts: talk
• Choice Views: view, view all, report; Posts: choose, choose again
• Database Views: view; Posts: add, update, record delete
• Forum Views: view discussion, search, forum, forums, subscribers; Posts: add discussion, add post, delete discussion, delete post, move discussion, prune post, update post
• Glossary Views: view, view all, view entry; Posts: add category, add comment, add entry, approve entry, delete category, delete comment, delete entry, edit category, update comment, update entry
• Lesson Views: view, view all; Posts: end, start, update grade attempt
• Quiz Views: view, view all, report; Posts: attempt, edit questions, review, submit
• Resource Views: view, view all; Posts:
• SCORM/AICC Views: preview, view, view all, report; Posts:
• Survey Views: download, view all, view form, view graph, view report; Posts: submit

Some contributed module reports

• Hot Potatoes Quiz Views: view, view all, report; Posts: attempt, review, submit
• Journal Views: view, view all, view responses; Posts: add entry, update entry, update feedback
• Lightbox Gallery Views: view, view all, search; Posts: comment, addimage, editimage

When a user accesses a resource or activity, these actions are usually captured in the Moodle site database, ready for counting when a Course Overview Report is run. However, some additional plugins do not have the code necessary to register a View or Post action, and so such activities are not captured.