In Oncourse CL, how do I use the Site Stats tool?

Note: To use Site Stats to collect participation data for a course site, you must add it to your site using Site Setup; see Adding, editing, or removing tools. The Site Stats tool is only accessible to site owners and assistants; students cannot see Site Stats. When you add Site Stats to your site, it will take one day for the data to load. Site Stats data are collected and stored from the beginning of the semester, so even if you add the Site Stats tool later in the semester, you will have access to the semester's activity to date.

To view an overview of site participation data, click Site Stats in the menubar. On the left, you'll see a chart that provides views of weekly, monthly, and yearly activity. On the right, you'll see totals and averages for the number of visits, unique visits, and overall site activity. Site Stats are updated once per day, early in the morning.

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.

To view data for individual participants, click Events. You can filter results by time period and/or groups, and sort by user ID, name, event, most recent date, and total. To save data to a Microsoft Excel file (.xls) on your computer, click Export for Excel. To save data to a comma-delimited file (.csv), click Export CSV.

To view data about the use of site resources, click Resources. You can filter results by time period and/or groups, and sort by user ID, name, resource, most recent date, action, and total.

To change which events Site Stats records, click Preferences. Use the checkboxes to choose what events will display on the Events page, and which will count as activity for display on the Overview page. Click Update to save your changes.

To return to the Overview page, click Overview.