Monitoring student participation in a forum
One of the most important tasks that you face when managing a forum is determining which students are participating and which are not. Moodle gives you several ways to get this information.
Determining who has posted to a forum
Moodle's log files can tell you who has participated in an activity. We will look at how useful log files are in determining which students have posted to a forum.
In order to view the list of students who have posted to a forum, follow these steps:
Enter the course for which you want the report.
From the Administration block, select Reports.
Under Choose which logs to see, select the settings for the following:
Course: This will be set to the course you are in, but you can choose a different course.
Participants: Leave this set to All participants so that you see the log for all students in the course.
Dates: To see who has ever posted to a forum, leave this set to All days.
Activity: In this case, it is the forum named Using...
