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You can learn more from Moodle Documentation on Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, the number of student “posts” did not seem to match the number of “forum posts” on the course I was looking at. So I looked at Moodle documentation to understand what is meant by “post” in the context of Moodle statistics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t So for example, the course I was looking at had about 250 forum posts by students in March. But the “posts” graph on Moodle Statistics report shows 4000+ activity.<\/p>\n I was not able to find what is defined as “posts” in Moodle Documentation. So I searched elsewhere to understand what was included in “posts”.<\/p>\n There was a bug report in March 2020 which suggested that the number of forum posts were counted twice. See the bug report Forum posts are counted twice in Statistics<\/a>. However, this too did not sufficiently explain the numbers I saw in the report.<\/p>\n Finally, the conference paper\u00a0Research analysis of Moodle Reports to gauge the level of interactivity in eLearning courses at Assumption University, Thailand<\/a>\u00a0(you can access from ResearchGate<\/a>) explained it clearly.\u00a0<\/p>\n For\u00a0 \u201cviews\u00a0 and\u00a0 posts\u201d,\u00a0 the\u00a0 \u2018views\u2019\u00a0 means\u00a0 that\u00a0 the\u00a0 data\u00a0 about\u00a0 access\u00a0 to\u00a0 an\u00a0 object\u00a0 doesn’t\u00a0 get\u00a0 saved\u00a0 into\u00a0 the\u00a0 database, An example\u00a0 of\u00a0 \u201cview\u201d\u00a0 is\u00a0 that\u00a0 a\u00a0 student\u00a0 logs\u00a0 on\u00a0 to\u00a0 a\u00a0 course\u00a0 and\u00a0 watches\u00a0 an\u00a0 online\u00a0 video\u00a0 for\u00a0 a\u00a0 particular\u00a0 chapter\u00a0 or\u00a0 just\u00a0 views\u00a0 the power-point slides for a chapter. Whereas all data about the \u2019posts\u2019\u00a0 means\u00a0 anything\u00a0 new\u00a0 that\u00a0 is\u00a0 created\u00a0 and\u00a0 uploaded\u00a0 does\u00a0 (forum\u00a0 \u00a0posts,\u00a0 \u00a0assessment\u00a0 \u00a0uploads,\u00a0 \u00a0etc.)\u00a0 \u00a0get\u00a0 \u00a0saved\u00a0 \u00a0in\u00a0 \u00a0the\u00a0 \u00a0database. An example of \u201cpost\u201d will be that a student submitted or uploaded an assignment or a quiz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote> This means that not only forum posts, but also all activity completion and quiz, survey, assignment submissions are counted as Moodle statistic “posts”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cross checking the downloaded log file confirmed that this was in fact the case. The “post” in Moodle statistics is much broader than just a forum post, it is something that the learner engages in and changes the learning platform with – for example by ticking that they have completed an activity.<\/p>\n It is useful to keep this in mind if you are interpreting Moodle statistics reports.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have been looking at course statistics on our Moodle learning platform. If “Statistics” option is enabled in a Moodle learning platform, you are able…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[173,174,172,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Moodle](\"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Moodle-stats-1024x688.jpg\")
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