An overview of reporting
Depending on your setup and configuration, Moodle records a detailed log of each action that is performed by a user. By default, each record (or hit) contains data about the following:
Who (user)
What (action)
When (date and time)
Where (IP address)
Given this trail of information, it is possible to perform two reporting tasks using Moodle's on-board facilities, namely reporting and statistics.
Reporting is mainly concerned with the summary information of users' activities, say, the number of views of a learning resource in a particular course. Ideally, reports allow some interaction to drill down to more specific information, usually via filters. This is useful if you need to locate data about an individual, activity, or a course. For example, a pupil insists that he or she has submitted an assignment, which cannot be located; the tracking log will be able to shed light on this.
Moodle offers a Statistics mode, which provides a graphical summary of the number of hits...
