How do I generate/download user content progress report?

Andre.M.416

I am an instructor. I would like to find out which students have been visiting which pages in my Brightspace course.

I can access this information in two ways:

1. For an individual student, I click "Roster" and then select "View progress" from the drop-down menu next to the student's name. I then click "Content" and navigate to the individual pages to see when they visited and for how long.
   
2. To see who has visited a specific page, I can go to that page and click the "Completion Summary" tab at the bottom for a list of users that have "Viewed the Topic."

Neither of these solutions is practical. I have 40+ students and hundreds of pages.

How can I generate/download a report with logs for all users and all pages?

How far back do the access logs go? If I check a student's progress in May, can I reliably find out if they accessed a page in January?

Matt.W.287

Hi Andre

What you're looking for is the Content Progress Advanced Data Set (ADS). This is filtered by the Org Unit Number of the course you're investigating and I think supports a maximum of two years. This particular data set is helpful as it includes objects from the course that are complete (if you've configured Completion Tracking) or either visited or not visited. (*ADS are former Standard Data Exports which is why they differ from BDS which are themselves more like database tables)

Alternatively you can download the Content User Progress Brightspace Data Set (BDS), and combine it with the Content Objects data set to build your own report in Excel or some other BI tool (Tableau, PowerBI, etc). This is of course more work but in most systems includes the complete history for your organization (data sets are limited to some millions of rows and in all of my clients is their complete history).

Both of these solutions will look more friendly if you combine those data sets with the Users BDS (to add usernames, full names, email addresses, etc) and perhaps the Organizational Structure BDS (to add course name or course code) which will make your report more friendly-to-the-eye.

A note on Content Progress data: You will see "real" and "fake" visits in the data. That refers to whether Brightspace could tell how long a user was on a page based on whether they actively navigated forward to another page or just closed the browser (or let the session time out). Brightspace can only measure 'click' activity and has no way of knowing a users passive behavior (including if they lost internet connectivity).

I hope that's helpful. If you'd like to see how I combine data sets in Excel (including large ones Excel cannot load into a worksheet all-at-once) you can check out this video/article I did: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/22784-leveraging-user-attributes-in-brightspace-data-set-reporting

Best,
Matt
Learning Administration Manager