Using Oncourse Forums, what participation statistics are available?

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Using Forums, you can view statistics for individual course participants, including the number of authored, read, and unread posts. You can also see the full text of all posts by a particular participant.

To view statistics for course participants:

1. In your site's menubar, click Forums, and then click Statistics. You'll see the participant list followed by columns labeled "Authored", "Read", "Unread", and "Percent Read".
   
   
2. Click a participant's name to see the following individual statistics:
   
   
   • Messages Authored: Lists the titles of the topics of posts authored by the participant, the date and time they were created, and the subject
   • Messages Read: Lists the titles of the topics of posts read, the date and time they were read, and the subject
   
   
3. To review the content of all of a particular participant's posts at once, from the list of messages authored, click Show Full Text for All.

   You can also see an individual posting in context by clicking [display in thread].

4. Click Forums to return to the Forums page.

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• View forum statistics
  

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