Digital activity data in Insights (2024)

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YourDigital activity report tells you how active your students were in Teams within a given time frame. Digital activity will tell youif they opened a file, visited a channel, attended a meeting (and for how long), and more.

Use your reportBeyond the data

Filter

By default, your report reflects all students, all activities, this week. You can use the filters to customizeyour report depending on what you want to see. Select for all options in each filter.

Student filter: type a student's name in the Search studentbox to narrow your data to that individual student.
Activity filter: View datafromassignments, communication, file use, meetings, OneNote or Reflect.
Time filter: select This weektoopen a dropdown of additional timeframe options.
- SelectCustom range to enter your own dates for a timeframe that can begin as far back asclass creation or up to a year prior to the date of your search, whichever is more recent.

Read your data

You can see the level of a student's activity (estimated time spent)by the size of the bar that's in their row.

Tips:

A dot next to a student's name means they weren't active at all in the time frame.
The default hours shown for a specific day are 7 AM to 8 PM. If a student is active outside of these hours, this time range will automatically expand to show their activity.

You can hover over a bar in a student's row for specifics on theiractivity. SelectSort by nameto see Most active or Least active students first.

Depending on the filter you choose for activity type and time frame, you may see:

Which onlinemeetingsthey attended, and for howlong.
- Hover over the redMissed meetingbar in the row next to a student's name to see which meeting they missed.
- Hover over the purple Meeting bar to see how long a student attended a meeting.
Channels visited
Tabs viewed
See Also
Can you prevent students from editing D2L discussion posts?
If they viewed or turned in an assignment
If they opened or edited a file
If they posted a message, replied to one, or reacted.
OneNote information
Reflect information

Exportdata to Excel

In your report, select More options .
Select Export to Excel.

In Excel, yourdigital activitydata will be reflected with student names and a column for each day within the selected time frame.
If the student was active one day, a "V" appears in the cell.
An empty cell means that the student was inactive that day.

Classroom use cases for mobilizing yourDigital activity report:

Track student attendance:Send a message in theGeneralchannel of your class team to check in with students, including a prompt for them to reply. You can use your Digital activity report to see at a glance which students replied.
Spark discussion: When you want to make sure students read a resource that isn't tracked as an assignment in Teams, like an online article, you can post about the resource in a channel and ask the class to reply. Your report can tell you how many students replied to the post.

Notes:

Data on class meeting attendance willtake a few hours after the meetingends to be reflected in the digital activity report. In some cases, the data may take up to 24 hours to appear.
Insights collects data from both desktop and mobile devices for meeting attendance, tabs viewed, assignment activity, file activity, and message activity. Data on channels visited is only collected from desktop devices.

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