Content Usage Statistics

Overview

The Content Usage Statistics Report provides student usage data for a particular item or folder on your vUWS site. The report is accessed outside of the Course Management Section and is access through the specific item that you want the data for. The report includes individual student access data, access data for each date, access trends across the hours or the day and days of the week.

Examples of questions that this dashboard can answer include:

• What are the access trends for a learning module on my vUWS site?
• Which day of the week do students most commonly access learning material?
• Has a particular student access this folder or item?
• How does the student engagement compare across my learning modules?

How do I use the report?

Access the report

Navigate to the item or folder that you would like to run the report on and ensure Edit Mode is turn on (top right corner of vUWS).

Hover your mouse cursor over the item or folder name and click on the chevron menu icon that appears. Select View Statistics Report from the menu.

A list of available reports will display, the only report in the list should be the Content Usage Statistics report. Hover your mouse cursor over the report heading text then click on the chevron menu icon that appears and select Run.

Note: Statistics Tracking must be turn on for the individual item or folder that you are running the report on. To turn Statistics Tracking on, hover your mouse cursor over the item or folder name and click on the chevron menu icon that appears. Select Statistics Tracking (On/Off) from the menu. Ensure that Statistics Tracking is selected to On, then press Submit .

A new page will load where you are required to input the parameters of the report including:

• Format : The output file format which will be generated for the report. Formats include PDF, HTML, Excel and Word.
• Start Date : The date that you want to examine the access data from (Must not be over 180 days from the data of the report run – see note below)
• End Date : The data that you want to access the data to.
• Users : The students within your cohort that you would like to include in the report. Note: You can leave this box without selecting any students, and it will generate data for all the students. Otherwise, you can select particular students – hold down Ctrl to select multiple students – or click on any student and press Ctrl + A to select all students.

Note: The report only retains 180 days of historical data. This means that you cannot view data older than 180 days and the selection of dates should be within the 180 days range from the date of the report run.

Using the Interface and viewing Data

The report generates a static view of the data which is broken into four sections (See screenshots below):

1. A column chart with the total number of accesses per date
2. A table per calendar month, each which contains a list of all students and the number of accesses per calendar day
3. A column chart and table with the total number of hits per hour of the day
4. A column chart and table with the total number of hits per day of the week

As this is a static report, there is no ability to interact with the data, including basic functions such as filtering it, drilling down on it, comparisons or aggregation. To enable any manipulation or further analysis of the data, it is highly recommended to download the data into an Excel format.

1. Total number of accesses per date

2. Number of accesses per calendar day by each student

3. Number of accesses per hour of the day

4. Number of accesses per day of the week