Monitoring students' online activity

You can use the Classlist area to see which students are enrolled, which students have withdrawn, and which areas they have visited. This might be useful when you want to know how many students have read the assignment instructions, accessed a particular reading, or whether a group member has left the course.

Accessing the Reports area

  1. Select Connect from the course navbar.

  2. Select Classlist.

  3. Click Enrolment Statistics from the top tool menu.

    'Enrolment Statistics' button highlighted on Classlist page

     

  4. Click Done when you are finished viewing the enrolment statistics.

Viewing User Progress

Use this feature to view the progress of users enrolled in your course.

  1. Select Connect from the course navbar.

  2. Select Classlist.

  3. Find the user whose progress you want to check and click the down arrow to the right of the users' name and select View Progress.

    'View progress' option highlighted
  4. To view another tool, select it from the menu on the left-hand side.

Using Discussion posts to assess participation

Discussions can be used to encourage student participation and the Statistics option within the tool provides an easy way to track the activity of individual students.

  1. Select Connect from the course navbar.

  2. Select Discussions.

  3. To view overall activity for all Discussion Forums, select the Statistics tab and the View By User or Group (click Apply to confirm option) OR select View Topic Statistics from the topic dropdown menu.

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