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Viewing a Report of Forum Posts by User
Last modified on 05 July 2023 05:13 PM

The Forum Posts by User advanced usage report produces a detailed view of student participation in forums in your course. The report can be configured to include any number of students in your course and can be filtered to only show specific forums (for more information on basic filtering see Common Features of Advanced Usage Reports).

To access Reports, click on the 'Reports' tab at the top of your course page  and select 'Advanced usage':


Click the Add a report button, and choose the type of advanced usage report to add:


Then select the Filter by Students tab, select the students' names to filter by and click Apply Filter

The figure below shows a sample report, including the advanced filters and a set of demo posts.


Advanced Filtering Options:

  1. Click on Show Advanced
  2. The user may select a minimum and a maximum number of words that posts must meet prior to being displayed. Posts must be greater than the minimum (default: 0) and less than the maximum (default: 9999) in order to be displayed. No limits exist on how high or low these values can be set. 

    Additional Information:

  3. If multiple students are selected, students are displayed one by one underneath the header for their names.
  4. For each student, under their name, forums selected in the filter are listed one by one. Beside each forum name (on the right), the total number of posts by the student in that forum is indicated. If no forums are selected on the activity filter, then all forums in the course are returned.
  5. Posts are displayed under the forum header and links are shown based on the context of the user. Instructors can perform advanced operations such as editing or deleting the post. All users may view the parent post or reply.
  6. Clicking this button will display a word cloud based on the words across all the displayed posts. This word cloud can be saved in a PNG image file).
  7. Clicking this button will export all of the posts to an Excel document. The exported file can be used to perform additional analysis on the content of the posts.
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