Instructors may use the built-in tool within Forum activities that allows them to look up a report of student activity.

To view the Forum Summary Report:

1. Go to the Forum
2. Click on the Reports tab at the top of that page
3. This will take you to the Forum summary report

Note: This may take a minute or longer depending on the complexity and size of the forum.

The 'Forum summary report' includes a wide range of data about the activity of each user in the forum:

• First name / Surname
• Number of discussions posted
• Number of replies posted
• Number of attachments
• Number of views
• Word count
• Character count
• Earliest post
• Most recent post
• Export posts (per user or using other conditions)
• Including data for 'All forums in course'
  

Users are able to filter by Date or by Groups (if a group mode has been set up in the forum).

Clicking on Export will give you options for a more detailed breakdown. You can narrow it to:

• a combination of users
• a combination of discussions
• date range

You may also specify what format it is to be downloaded as:

• Comma separated values (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
• HTML table
• Javascript Object Notation (.json)
• OpenDocument (.ods)
• Portable Document Format (.pdf)

To improve legibility, the Export options allow the data to be customized and remove any HTML and/or alter the dates to a more conventional format. Depending on how you intend to use the data, (ie. if performing further analysis in a separate statistics program), instructors may wish to leave the Export options at their defaults.

Note: The table data for the Summary Report may also be downloaded in the same formats as described above.