Sakai: Statistics

Sakai Statistics Tool

• Tracking Users and Resources (Duke)
• Statistics(University of Florida)
• Statistics (Rutgers)
• In your Sakai course:
  • On the left, on the main menu, click on Statistics
  • At the top, before adding/creating a report, click on the Preferences button
    • Click to the left of the tools you want to track the activity of (click on the + button to see details of what is tracked for each tool)
    • Click on the Update button at the bottom when done.
• To create a report in Statistics:
  • At the top, click on the Reports button.
    • Click on the Add button:
      • What: Activity should display Events; next to Events, Select by Tool should be selected.
        • You can find out the student activity for all tools selected in Preferences, or click on a specific tool.
        • To find out about the activity of more than one tool, click on a tool, then while holding down the Ctrl key on the keyboard, click on an additional tool.
      • When: Click on a date range or click on custom to pick specific date ranges/times
      • Who: Leave All users, or click on custom and pick a user. If you click on custom, you can pick multiple users by clicking on a username, then while holding down the Ctrl key on the keyboard, click on additional user names.
      • How: Choose Totals by User, Tool, Event and Date. To choose more than one field: hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard, as you click on each field. You'll see what each user did, when, with each tool you selected.
      • You can leave the presentation as a Table
      • Click on the Generate Report button.

• Statistics Report Results:
  • Your results will display the Report selections at the top, then will display the following columns: User Id, Name, Event, Date, and Total.
  • You can sort any column by clicking on the column title.
  • Above the column titles, to the right, click on greater than buttons to display either additional pages, the last page, or click on the drop down box to change how many lines to display.
  • To Export the results, click on the Export button at the bottom of the report.
    • You can export the report as a CSV (spreadsheet)or PDF or scroll to the top right, and click on the link printable results to print the report.
  • If nothing met your report criteria selected, no data will display. ** Click on the Back button to change the settings for your report.

• To save your report:
  • Click on the Back button
  • Scroll to the top, add a report title (you may have to click on the Show link to the right of Report, to get the report title to display).
  • Scroll to the bottom, click on the Save report button.

• To run a saved report:
  • On the main menu, after you click on Statistics:
    • Your report names will display below the Add button
    • You can click on the report title link to run it, or click on the links below the report title to edit, duplicate or delete the report.

• For example, for Forums, you can see the date a student created a new thread, read a thread, or have responded to a thread.

User Activity

• User Activity (DTCC)