Oncourse Site Stats: Overview
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 once, and only once, in 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 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 Site Stats.
Last modified on May 17, 2011.
