In Oncourse CL, how do I use the Site Stats tool?
Note: To see statistics for Forums, use the Forums tool; see Participation statistics.
Note: To use Site Stats to collect participation data for a course site, add it to your site using Site Setup; see Adding, editing, or removing tools. Only site owners and assistants can access the Site Stats tool; 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 is a chart
that provides views of weekly, monthly, and yearly activity. On the
right are 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.
Note: The checkboxes Content new,
Content read, Content revise, and Content
delete refer to the Resources and Drop Box tools. For example,
if Content read is checked in Site Stats Preferences, the
tool would record an event each time someone clicks to open an item in
Resources or Drop Box.
To return to the Overview page, click Overview.
Last modified on October 22, 2009.
