Are usage reports available showing students' visits to my course webCafé room?
For course webCafé rooms, reports on student logins are available in two places:
- Each course room's Instructor Folder contains a link entitled Member Participation Report. This is one of webCafé's Custom Course Tools, although it is provided automatically in most course rooms. Clicking the Member Participation Report link will provide a quick summary of the last login time for each room member (students, staff and faculty); a "Download to Excel" button is also provided.
- More detailed usage reports are available by pressing the edit button on a room's top-level folder, then on the eRoom Settings screen selecting "Usage Reports" from the left-side menu.
Clicking the usage reports button will bring you to a screen where a date range can be specified. After the display button is clicked, a summary of files, items and number of users is shown; clicking the
button beneath the Visitors column heading will display the number of room visits, item creations, deletions and edits for each room member who has used the room.
As with the "Member Participation Report," usage reports are available only to faculty and room coordinators (staff and TAs in the room member list).
Unfortunately, data on whether students are downloading files, either on a file-by-file basis or in the aggregate, are not tracked in the eRoom software on which webCafé is based. The vendor chose to emphasize flexible ways to download -- by single-click, by drag-drop, through WebDAV/Network Places, etc. -- and that emphasis works against tracking these downloads on a per-student basis.
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