{"id":2012,"date":"2018-10-22T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:18:58","slug":"how-should-you-track-the-time-spent-by-learners-on-your-moodle-lms-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-should-you-track-the-time-spent-by-learners-on-your-moodle-lms-course","title":{"rendered":"How Should You Track the Time Spent by Learners on Your Moodle LMS Course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-should-you-track-the-time-spent-by-learners-on-your-moodle-lms-course\/#Understanding_LMS_Time_Entry\" title=\"Understanding LMS Time Entry\">Understanding LMS Time Entry<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-should-you-track-the-time-spent-by-learners-on-your-moodle-lms-course\/#Forums\" title=\"Forums:\">Forums:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-should-you-track-the-time-spent-by-learners-on-your-moodle-lms-course\/#Google_Analytics\" title=\"Google Analytics:\">Google Analytics:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Currently, online learning has gained much popularity and with thousands of courses being available using e-learning environments, students can continue learning even on the go. Moodle software development comes as one of the most popular ways of online learning these days. Nevertheless, there are certain limitations of LMSs as they don\u2019t allow to offer a virtual education environment that offers the whole set of functionalities available in conventional systems. Moodle LMS is very popular among organizations offering online courses. One specific feature of the platform ensures LMS tracking capabilities, which is an exceptional attribute.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Understanding_LMS_Time_Entry\"><\/span>Understanding LMS Time Entry<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But one thing that educators find difficult is to track or record the actual learning time that the trainee spends in a given course. Though, the time that a specific student uses in learning can be recorded by checking his or her entering (with feature like LMS time entry) or exiting time. But this is not the actual figure.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Let us understand this through one example. Suppose a student enters a lesson of mathematical algorithm, and follows the explanation for some time, but then decides to have tea with his friend who has just arrived without checking out from the course. If no time expires at the LMS, then the recording of the learning time would be longer than the actual time and this would of course provide a misleading data.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The above situation is important in courses where the actual time spent by the student is of special relevance. Current tracking in LMSs is actually based on the actions performed by the students in the computer input devices, but are no means to check the actual time spent to perform that action.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Let us discuss some important time (Moodle) tracking systems that can be used with this LMS for betterment:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Activity reports<\/strong>:<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is an important way by which you can track the time of the student engagement on <span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/moodle-development\/\">Moodle LMS<\/a><\/span>. Whenever a student satisfies certain criteria, the activity is marked as complete. The activity should be based on the entire lesson so that the student has to attend the complete module before participating in the activity. The overview of activity completion will help to track the time spent.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Course completion reports: <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Whenever a student fulfills the course completion criteria, the course becomes successful. It gets the marking as complete. You can easily compare the time taken by the students to complete the course with the standard benchmark. This comparison will offer an idea of time by each student to their Moodle time spent in course.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/learning-just-dont-happen-moodle-helps-to-engage-your-employees-in-corporate-training\">Moodle LMS Reporting Capabilities and How They Help Organizations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forums\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Forums:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This type of participation can help you keep a track of the time spent by your students. Setting up an open forum for knowledge and discussion<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">should be the first step. <\/span>O<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">nce the involvement of the student is there, it can act as a good indicator for education time tracking.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Google_Analytics\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Google Analytics<\/strong>:<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Using this, you can easily track the student engagement and time devoted to the course efficiently. The factors that are important to analyze include average time spent on page, page views, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;This will give a clear idea of the actual time spent by the students on the course.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Feedback forms<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To offer reviews, learners can fill the feedback form. They can thus share their experience while doing the course. The forms could feature a question that covers some aspects of e-learning. This will&nbsp;offer an idea of the areas that they have worked on and calculate the time spent by them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If your organization is offering e-learning courses, then time tracking is crucial. &nbsp;For best results from your e-learning courses, effective time tracking is important regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, online learning has gained much popularity and with thousands of courses being available using e-learning environments, students can continue learning even on the go. 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