Moodle Student Engagement Report Examples

Moodle student engagement reports are powerful tools designed to track and analyze student interaction within the Moodle learning management system. These reports provide educators and administrators with valuable insights into student activity, such as login frequency, participation in forums, completion of assignments, and time spent on various course materials. By leveraging these reports, educators can identify students who may be struggling or disengaged, allowing for timely interventions and personalized support. Additionally, the data from engagement reports can help refine course design, ensuring that content and teaching strategies effectively promote student involvement and success. In this article, we will dive into some of our clients’ most requested reports.

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Outline

• Top Moodle Custom Reports

• How to Build Top Moodle Custom Reports

• How to Automatically Send Your Reports

• Why Hiring a Moodle Expert Can Help With Custom Reports

Top Moodle Custom Reports

Within Moodle, there is a custom report feature. We often encounter clients that wish to generate reports but custom reports are just not enough to generate reports with compiled information. Through the Configurable Reports plugin, we are able to customize reports for our client to their specific needs. Here are our top requested reports:

1. Non-completion Report – Often times, you able to generated a completion report, but aren’t able to see who hasn’t completed a course. This is often useful for compliance training that is mandatory. Educators or administrators can track which of their learners hasn’t completed their training with this report.
2. Certificate/Unqiue Code Report – This report is often used by clients that issue a type of licensing. Certain clients sometimes are required to generate reports of learners that were issued a license or certificate to state/city for cross referencing.
3. User Engagement Report – This report allows administrators to track how often users are logging in, accessing courses and modules and their completions. This helps administrators get a better idea of which courses are most popular and the activity of their learning management system.
   
4. Enrolment Key Report – This report allows administrators to have somewhere to look for specific keys for either courses or groups.
5. All Course Completions Report – This report compiles all course completions across the platform. This allows educators or administrators to look at completion for a learner or for a course in one report instead of having to dive into courses or profiles one by one.

How to Build Top Moodle Custom Reports

To build a configurable report customized to your needs, it will require some SQL knowledge. You can find examples of these online through forums as well and there is documentation available to assist with building a report. https://docs.moodle.org/404/en/Configurable_reports

For our specific list of reports, here’s how we build the reports.

1. Non-completion report is built up of Name, Email, Course Name and Incomplete. Filtered by User or Course.
2. Certificate/Unique code report is built up of Name. Email, Userid, (license_number), Cert_Issued and Cert_Code. (license_number) only if applicable.
3. User engagement report is split into two parts for our clients filter by name, department, email or profile role.
   1. First is a summary which is built up of Name, Email, Department, Profile_Role, Cohort_Name, Login_Count, Last_Login, View_Module_Count, Course_Modules_Viewed, Last_View_Time, Completion_Count, Course_Modules_Completed and Last_Completion_Time.
   2. Second is a log view which is built up of Name, Email, Department, Profile_Role, Cohort_Name, Interaction_Type, Course_Module and Timemodified.
4. Enrolment key report is built up of Course_Name, Group and Enrolment Key, filtered by course.
5. All course completions report is built up of the same columns as the non-completion but when writing the SQL script, you’d search for completions. Name, Email, Course_Name and Completions (time_completed can be concated here), filtered by user or course.

How to Automatically Send Your Reports

Creating and dispatching reports can be time-consuming, especially when the volume of data is high or if regular revisions are required. Our local plug-in, Mindfield Scheduled Report,  addresses this concern by allowing you to automatically circulate the reports created in Moodle to the specified individuals on a regular basis. With this plug-in, you can set your report sending frequency to daily, weekly, or at any other custom time, and you will receive content directly in your mailbox or other people without doing anything.

This plug-in is very useful for the administrator or instructor who requires periodic reports regarding student engagement, course completion, or non-compliance with training that has been declared mandatory. Integrating this plug-in into your Moodle enables you to focus your efforts on analyzing the data and acting accordingly without having to invest time in report generation. The plug-in supports multiple report formats, including CSV, JSON, ODS and Excel, so the users can choose a format that best serves their purpose.

Further, the presentation of the plug-in makes it very easy to configure the delivery in that it will take you few clicks to create a delivery schedule. From keeping track of student progress and engagement or coordinating compliance with training requirements, the automatic report sending capability keeps you abreast with the necessary information regardless of the activity status.

Why Hiring a Moodle Expert Can Help With Custom Reports

Hiring a Moodle expert for custom reports brings significant benefits to educational institutions and organizations. An expert possess in-depth knowledge of Moodle’s capabilities and SQL, enabling them to create highly tailored reports that meet specific needs. This customization not only saves time and reduces the complexity of manual data compilation but also ensures that the reports are accurate and insightful. Moreover, a Moodle expert can provide ongoing support and training, empowering educators and administrators to make data-driven decisions that enhance the overall learning experience.

In conclusion, investing in custom Moodle reports through the expertise of a skilled professional can dramatically enhance the functionality and effectiveness of your learning management system. Tailored reports streamline administrative tasks, provide precise data, and offer valuable insights that can drive educational success. By choosing to work with a Moodle expert, you ensure that your institution or organization maximizes the potential of its LMS, leading to better-informed decisions, improved compliance tracking, and optimized student engagement.