Overview Dashboard

The Overview dashboard displays several metrics about how your learners are interacting with the platform as it behaves as a web site.

This dashboard allows you to gauge user interactivity with the platform. It does not show detailed learner activity regarding content launches or skills gained. You can use the detailed activity report or the executive dashboard to view those metrics.

Dashboard Insights

The Overview dashboard gives you insights about learners' activity on your platform over a specified date range. You can:

  • Get metrics on the total number of times your platform is being viewed, how many unique learners are accessing the platform, and how long they are spending learning.
  • Filter the dashboard by date range to see how platform metrics have changed over time. If activity on your platform has dropped, consider reminding users to continue learning or create new assignments.
  • Filter the dashboard by audience to see how learning metrics differ by audience.

Get Started

To access this dashboard and customize it for your needs:

  1. From the left navigation bar, select Analytics. Switch to the All dashboards tab.
  2. Select Overview.
  3. To see just the data you need, specify global filters for this dashboard. You find all filters under the Filters drop down.
  4. Once you specify filters, select Apply filters to update the dashboard.
  5. Select Load default filters, then Apply filters to reset all filters to default.
  6. Once you specify filters, you can select Download CSV to save all data shown on this dashboard to your computer.

  7. To save an individual chart as a PNG, select the Download options icon, then Download chart as image.

Filters

You can set the following filters for this dashboard:

  • Date filters: Use these to specify the data on your Activity dashboard.
    • Date Range: Filters the data by a specified range of dates that you select from the drop-down list.
    • Start: Instead of using a Date Range preset, use this to specify a start date. When you enter a Start date, the Date Range Presets filter changes to Custom.
    • End: Instead of using a Date Range preset, use this to specify an end date. When you enter an End date, the Date Range Presets filter changes to Custom.
    Example:
    If you set the date to Start on September 1 and End on October 1, only the platform data within the September 1 - October 1 time period is shown.
  • Audience: Predefined group of users. Enter the name of an audience and then select it from the list. You can display the data for multiple audiences at the same time by entering more than one audience name. You can select up to 20 audiences.

About this dashboard

This dashboard contains data in the following sections:

This chart shows the total number of platform page views for all users during the selected time frame. A page view is counted each time a user accesses a page within the platform (whether it be through navigating through the platform or using search).

Examples of a page include a search results page, the Activity page, and the home page.

This chart shows the total number of unique users accessing the platform during the selected time frame. Each user is counted only once, regardless of how many times they accessed the site. For example, if a learner signs in to the platform four times within the specified date range, only one visit for this learner is included in this calculation. This does not equate to the number of licenses consumed.

For example, if a learner signs in to the platform four times within the specified date range, only one visit for this learner is included in this calculation.

If the learner logged in prior to the beginning of the date range and stayed logged in throughout the date range but has no activity, they are also counted in the total number of users. This learner has an active session, but does not have activity.

This chart shows the total time users spent engaged with the platform during the selected time frame.

This chart show the total number of sessions during the selected time frame. This is not user-specific.

For example, if a learner signs into the platform four times within the specified date range, all four sessions are included in this calculation.

You can configure how long a learner can stay logged into the platform. Learners can have multiple sessions during the selected time frame.

This chart shows the average number of platform page views per user during a single session during the selected time frame.

For example, if a learner signs in to the platform three times during the specified time frame, and visited six pages during the first session, four pages during the second session, and eight pages during the third session, the average number of platform page views would be six (6 page views + 4 page views + 8 pages views = 18 page views. When those 18 page views are divided by the total number of sessions for the user – in this case, 3 – the average number is six.