Definition of a Moodle access event.

Definition of a Moodle access event.

by Rob Kelly -
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Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to publish a research manuscript that utilises log data of veterinary students access to undergraduate course activities hosted on moodle2. The data was collected in 2015-16 and the data collected was log data on how frequent students accessed various resources, e.g. quizzes, learning materials etc...

One of the reviewers has asked us to define what is a recorded as an access event. Could you define what an access event is?

For example is it just when the user clicks on the resource or is it possible when they restart an activity this is logged as an event? We have some quiz data that implies students commonly accessed it up to 50 times. Although this is possible, other quizzes were commonly accessed 2-3 times. So we were wondering why we might have this erroneous result?

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

BW

Rob Kelly, University of Edinburgh. 
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In reply to Rob Kelly

Re: Definition of a Moodle access event.

by Tim Hunt -
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There are lots of different log events in Moodle. They all have a description of what they are.

For example, when attempting a quiz, the sequence might be:

  1. View entry page of the quiz.
  2. Click start attempt button.
  3. View first page of the quiz.
  4. Submit first page of the quiz.
  5. View second page of the quiz.
  6. ...
  7. Submit last page of the quiz.
  8. View attempt summary.
  9. Submit and finishe the whole attempt.
  10. View summary page.

If you could all those, then what you count will depend heavily on how many pages your quiz has, and won't really be comparable with what is logged when the student reads a multi-page PDF, which is just:

  1. Download PDF resource.
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