Analytics

Analytics is where you read dashboards and charts for courses and learners: who enrolled, who is active, how people use pages, problems, and videos, and who may need help. Open it from Control Hub NAVIGATION. It opens in a new tab. Sign in with the same account you use on this site.

A dashboard is a page of charts together. A chart is one view (bar, line, table). A dataset is the table of numbers behind a chart.

Open Analytics

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In Control Hub, under NAVIGATION, click Analytics.

You see Sign In. Click the teal button. Use the same admin account as Control Hub. You do not create a second password here.

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Analytics dashboards and types

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After sign-in you land on Home. The top links are Dashboards, Charts, Datasets, and SQL. On the right: +, Settings, and language.

Home

Recents and Saved queries fold open if you need them.

Dashboards has Favorite, Mine, and All. Click + DASHBOARD to start a new one, or VIEW ALL > for the full list. Use the star to favourite a card. published means others with access can open it.

Charts on the same page works the same way, with + CHART and VIEW ALL >.

Numbers can lag. On a dashboard, open the ... menu (top right) and choose Refresh dashboard for the latest data. You can also set an auto-refresh for this session.

Clicking a bar or row on one chart can filter the other charts on the same page. Click again, or clear the filter, to return to the full view.

You can also open Course Dashboard, At-Risk Learners Dashboard, and Individual Learner Dashboard for the course you are in from Instructor Dashboard Reports.

You only see courses you have access to. A course team member sees staff courses. A site admin sees more.

Course Dashboard

One course: enrolments, activity, and grades. Open Dashboards → Course Dashboard, or use Instructor Reports for the course you have open.

Course Dashboard

Filters on the left apply to the whole page. Set them first:

Organization — which organisation’s courses
Course Name — which course
Course Run — which run of that course
Date — a date range, or No filter for all time
Time Grain — Day, Week, or Month on time charts

+ ADD/EDIT FILTERS changes which filters appear.

Current Enrollees is how many people are in the course right now.

The Course Information table is a snapshot of that run:

Active Within Last 7 Days — people who did something in the last week
Avg Course Grade — the average grade
Median Course Grade — the middle grade (less skewed by very high or low scores)

Tabs under that:

Enrollment — how enrolments grew, and by enrollment track (for example honor vs verified).
Engagement — three views:
Pages — which sections and subsections people opened.
Problems — attempts, correct vs incorrect, and correct on first attempt. Very high often means easy or clear; very low often means hard or unclear. Open the problem in Studio or use In-Context Analytics.
Videos — started, completed, and which parts were watched or replayed.
Performance — how many people are passing and how grades are spread.
Help — extra guidance for this dashboard.

Click a bar or row to filter the other charts on the page. Click again, or clear the filter, to return to the full view.

At-Risk Learners Dashboard

People who may drop the course. Open Dashboards → At-Risk Learners Dashboard, or the same board from Instructor Reports.

A learner appears here only if all of these are true:

they are enrolled
they did more than open the course home page
they have not passed yet
they have not visited for seven or more days

If nobody matches, the report is empty. That can be good news.

Tabs:

Overview — list with last visit (and name, username, email when your site shows them). Use last visit as an early warning. Click one person to filter the other tabs to them.
Enrollment — enrollment track and when people joined.
Engagement — how this at-risk group used pages, problems, and videos. Use this to see what content they struggled with.
Performance — grades and pass rate for this group.
Help — extra guidance for this dashboard.

Reach out to people on Overview before they fall further behind.

Individual Learner Dashboard

One person in one course. Open Dashboards → Individual Learner Dashboard.

Filter by Name, Username, or Email when those fields are shown. If name, username, and email are blank, the site is set not to show personal details here. You can still use the other numbers.

Learner Summary is a table for the people you filtered:

Username, Name, Email — when your site shows them
Enrollment date, last visit, pass/fail, and course grade

Below that, tabs mirror Course Dashboard for the learner(s) you picked:

Pages — which sections and subsections they used
Problems — their attempts and results
Videos — what they watched
Help — extra guidance

Click one learner in a chart to cross-filter the rest of the page to that person.

Operator Dashboard

Site-wide totals, not one course. Open Dashboards → Operator Dashboard. Site admins use this most.

Typical numbers:

Active Learners — people active on the site recently
Active Courses — courses with recent activity
Enrolment totals — how many people enrolled across courses

Use Course Dashboard when you care about a single course. Use Course Comparison to compare many courses.

Course Comparison Dashboard and In-Context Analytics are covered below.

Course Comparison Dashboard

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Use this when you need high-level numbers across many courses — popularity, who is active, who may drop, problem difficulty, and video watching — without opening each Course Dashboard one by one.

Open it from Analytics Home → Dashboards, or from Instructor Reports → View dashboards, then open Course Comparison Dashboard. You only see courses you can access. A full site admin sees more than a course team member.

Filters on the left narrow which courses appear (organisation, course, run, tags when your site uses course tags).

Two tabs:

Course Metrics — one row per course, with all runs of that course rolled together.
Run Metrics — one row per course run. Use this to compare the same course taught more than once.

On both tabs you typically see:

Course Info — name, organisation, current enrollees, active in the last seven days, tags, and a link into that course’s Course Dashboard.
Enrollment Counts — how many people enrolled, including by enrollment track when your site uses tracks (for example verified vs honor).
Learner Performance Breakdown — active, passed, and at-risk counts. At-risk uses the same rule as At-Risk Learners (enrolled, did more than open the home page, not passed yet, no visit for seven or more days). By default the chart shows the top courses by enrolment among your filters.
Learner Performance — grade and problem metrics, including average correct on first attempt across problems. Very high can mean problems are too easy; very low can mean they are too hard or unclear. Drill into that course’s Course Dashboard → Engagement → Problems for detail.
Video Engagement — how much of each course’s video people watch and re-watch. High re-watch can mean a video is unclear. Average video length helps explain a low “seconds watched” rate.

Click a course or run on one chart to filter the others (cross-filter). Click again, or clear the filter, to return to the full view.

In-Context Analytics in Studio

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Use this when you are editing a course and want numbers next to the block you are looking at. It is the same Analytics data, shown in Studio.

Open the course in Studio. On the Course outline or a Unit page, click Analytics at the top. A sidebar opens. Click Analytics again (or close) to hide it.

What you see depends on what you select:

Course outline (whole course)

Subsection Engagement — how many people tried at least one problem in each graded subsection, and the average score for those people.
Problem Engagement — attempts per problem, and correct on first attempt. High = manageable; low = hard or unclear.
Video Engagement — unique and repeat views per video.

Graded subsection

Score ranges and the average score for people who tried at least one problem in that subsection.
Correct vs incorrect counts for each problem in the subsection.

Problem

Problem Results — % correct on all attempts, and % correct on the first attempt.
Initial Responses — how people answered the first time (useful when many get it wrong).

Video

Unique vs repeat views along the video timeline. Spikes in repeat views often mean that part is unclear.

On a Unit page, click a problem or video in the sidebar list to jump to that block and refresh the charts for it.

Pair this with Course Dashboard → Engagement when you need the full course, or with Course Comparison when you compare several courses.

Datasets

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Click Datasets at the top. Each dataset is the table of numbers behind one or more charts (enrolments, at-risk learners, problem attempts, and so on).

Use BULK SELECT, + DATASET, or the import icon on the right. To add from a file, see Import datasets.

Before you create a chart, pick the dataset that matches what you want to show. Dashboard boards already use the right datasets — you only need this when you build a custom chart.

Analytics charts and chart types

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Click Charts at the top. This list is every chart, including ones that sit on a dashboard.

Charts

BULK SELECT lets you pick several charts at once. + CHART starts a new chart. The download icon exports the list.

Filters narrow the list. You do not need every filter every time:

NAME — type part of the chart name
TYPE — bar, line, table, and other views
DATASET — which data the chart uses
TAG — labels you added
OWNER — who created it
DASHBOARD — which dashboard it sits on
FAVORITE — starred charts
CERTIFIED — marked as official
MODIFIED BY — who last changed it

Switch grid view or list view with the icons on the left.

Create a new chart

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Click + CHART or Charts → + CHART. The page is Create a new chart.

Create a new chart

Step 1: Choose a dataset — pick the data to chart. Use the search box. Names describe the table (enrolments, at-risk, and so on). Add a dataset is next to it if you need new data.

Choose a chart type — pick a view (bar, line, pie, table, and others). Categories on the left (for example KPI, Table, Map) shorten the gallery.

Then set the numbers and save. The new chart appears under Charts. You can add it to a dashboard later.

Settings and data

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Click Settings at the top right.

Settings

Use this menu if you manage the Analytics site itself. Most day-to-day work stays on Dashboards and Charts.

Security — people who can sign in, their roles, and a log of actions
Data — Database Connections
Manage — look and labels: CSS Templates, Tags, Alerts & Reports, Annotation Layers
User — Info for your account, or Logout

Import datasets

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Open Datasets. On the right: BULK SELECT, + DATASET, and the import icon.

Import datasets

Hover the tray icon to see Import datasets. Use that to bring in a saved dataset file. Use + DATASET to add one from a connection you already have. Charts read from datasets, so import or add a dataset before you build a new chart from it.

SQL Lab

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Click SQL in the top bar.

SQL

SQL Lab — write a query against your data
Saved Queries — queries you kept
Query History — what ran recently

Use this when a dashboard does not already show the cut you need. For most checks, start with Dashboards instead.