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This Tis guide will show you how to use Moodle's 'Logs' feature,  enabling you to keep an eye on student enabling you to keep an eye on student activity by individual students and by activity.

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This refers to Moodle 34.11 1 from August 2022 December 2023 onwards

How to: see tracking information/activity reports for students

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  • Which students have accessed a particular activity (perhaps to send a reminder to those who haven't);
  • What activities a particular student has accessed (to monitor progress);
  • Which students were in any part of the course on a particular day and time;
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PDF document to download if you prefer

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Accessing reports 


  1. In your module, click the 'Actions' (cogwheel) menu  Cogwheel menuImage Removed and select 'More...' 
  2. Scroll down to Reports
  3. select Reports, found underneath the module title.

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3. Choose the type of report you want to look at (see below for details on the report types).

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  • The Live Logs report just shows you all the actions in the module now with user details and what they accessed when. You cannot choose criteria for this report.

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  • The Activity report just shows you the total views for each resource and activity as well as the last time they were accessed/viewed.

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  • With the Logs report you can choose which module participant you would like to look at the actions of, when (date), the activity (organised by the section titles), the type of action, and you want to how you would like to view the information i.e. would you like to download the information?. Generally I would advise against changing the action type because it can narrow it down too far and also to leave the display option as 'display on page' unless you need to download it.
    e.g., to search for a particular student's activity

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  • or perhaps who had submitted to an assignment at a particular time (such as around the deadline):

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  • With the Module Participation report you can choose the activity or resource (organised by activity/resource type), how far back you would like to start the report results, the role of the participants who viewed (you will need to change this to student), and the type of action.  The 'Post' action means participation e.g. a student may view a Choice activity but when they make a choice this is considered a 'post'.

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You are then provided with a list of students and Yes or No they have(n't) viewed/participated in the activity chosen. 

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  • The Statistics report gives an overview of activity on the module, which can be adjusted according to user type and time period. NOTE: This takes up a lot of resource in Moodle and can take a while to run.


Setting filters for statistics report

Statistics report

  • The final report is Activity completion - This lists students and which activities they have completed. This can be downloaded as a spreadsheet - really useful to manipulate completion data. NOTE: This is only available if you have Completion Tracking enabled in your module (this is enabled on the Edit Settings page, see below).

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See How to use Completion Tracking to Monitor Student Progress

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