1. This is the basic filters area, which in most reports contains a student/grade filter, an activity filter, and a date filter.
   • The student/grade filter allows you to choose individual students or subsets (groups). If you select nothing, the report will default to show the data for all the students in your course.
   • Selecting a grade condition will only show students meeting the specified condition.
   • The date filter will limit the results to the specified time period. In a future update, the date filter will automatically default to the current term if that information is visible in the course name. Take note of the calendar dropdown button (  ), which lets you quickly select common lengths of time (last week, 13 weeks, 4 months).
2. x: This is the close button which lets you remove a report from view.
3. Apply filter: This button records your current set of filters and requests the result from the server. After the results are retrieved, they’ll be added to the area indicated by “5”. Note that even without changing any filters, you must click this button to see results.
4. Show Advanced: this will expand a section that contains more advanced filtering options depending on the type of report that is being generated. These advanced options are covered in more detail in the detailed article for each specific report type.
5. This area will contain the results of the report that you’ve generated.  In the image above, a sample of a “Content engagement” report is visible.
6. Action icons: This area includes tools that: export to Excel, export to a .png image file, copy the results to the clipboard, or undo/redo a set of filters.
7. This is the legend area of the report (typically only used for graphs) that contains additional information about the colouring used in the graph.

Most areas contain a help bubble (  ) to provide additional contextual information where appropriate.

Adjusting Graph Size

Analytics reports primarily come in two sizes, small and medium.  If your device resolution is large enough, the larger size of the two will be used. Additionally, if your device’s usable horizontal size is quite large (>1600 pixels), you’ll see a special toggle, pictured below, that lets you adjust between displaying the graphs in "list" view or "grid" view:

In the list view (left icon), graphs are displayed using a medium size and stacked on top of one another.

In grid view (right icon), graphs are displayed using the smaller size, but two graphs can now be displayed side-by-side. Use this view if you’d like to do side-by-side comparisons.

The majority of user testing was done on devices using a 1080p screen, although devices (e.g. laptops or tablets) with smaller resolutions will work well and generally be forced into "list" view.

Due to the more detailed nature of the filters and graphs (and their analysis), it would be difficult to work on the smaller mobile screens. Newer phones (most Android phones, iPhone 6 and newer) can be used to generate some results (provided that they are used in landscape mode) but in general, using advanced usage reports on mobile devices will not provide the best experience.