This information applies only to the Ultra Course View.

The Student Activity Log

Reviewing student activity helps inform decisions in academic disputes and aids in troubleshooting. You can also analyze the course participation of students at risk. Instructors and other higher roles can use the student activity log to check what a particular student did in a course. 

Student activity log, showing all student activities. There's a download option at the top right.

The student activity log can be filtered by event type and can look to the past 140 days. Any information older than that won’t be stored. The log can take up to 20 minutes to update from the last time a student performs an action. 

You can download the log to share with others. Any filters that you apply to the log also apply to the download. Only the first 1000 events are downloaded. 

The following events can be found in the log: 

  • Course Access 
  • Assessment Started 
  • Assessment Draft saved 
  • Assessment Submitted 
  • Assessment Auto-submitted 
  • Discussion Access 
  • Discussion Draft saved 
  • Discussion Edit 
  • Discussion Reply 
  • Discussion Response 
  • Document Access 
  • Journal Access 
  • LTI Item Access 
  • SCORM item Access 

For administrators: A privilege is available to control role-based access to the student activity log report. Go to the Administration Panel. Select Course/Organization Roles in the Users section. Choose the role that you want to add the privilege to and select Privileges in the dropdown menu. Select "Course/Organization > Student/Participant > Activity Log" to grant the student activity log permission.