ARCHIVED: Oncourse Site Stats: Overview

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Important:
Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.

What it does

Site Stats is a tool for showing statistics by user, event, or resource. A site owner can use Site Setup to add Site Stats to any site. The Site Stats tool is accessible only to the site owner and assistants; students cannot see Site Stats.

Using Site Stats, you can:

  • See the number of site visits, overall or by individual user
  • See the most active users, as well as those who have not visited the site
  • See which files have been opened
  • View customizable charts with weekly, monthly, yearly, or total activity
  • Run a predefined report or generate your own custom report

Key concepts

Visits: The Site Stats tool reports the number of times users have entered the site.

Note: The "unique visits" statistic counts the number of distinct individuals who have visited the site. (I.e., each user who visits the site counts only once toward the number of unique visits.) It does not supply information about the number of visits per individual or the number of tabs that users have visited.

Activity: A variety of actions that participants take in the site may count as activity in the site. You can customize what counts and what doesn't on the "Preferences" page.

Things to consider

  • Site Stats is not a default tool. To use Site Stats to collect participation data for a site, you must add it to your site using Site Setup; see ARCHIVED: Adding, removing, hiding, or reordering tools.
  • When you add Site Stats to your site, even if it's the middle of the semester, you will have access to all data from the day the site was first loaded. It will take one day for the data to load.
  • Site Stats are updated once per day, in the early morning.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Site Stats tool, see ARCHIVED: Site Stats.

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Last modified on 2018-01-18 15:48:56.