Usage Explorer

INTRODUCTION

The Usage Explorer is where to find useful reports and statistics to assist with the analysis of technology use.  There are several reports to better understand website, application, popular usage time, and aggregate student volume that can be filtered by school or time.

FILTERS 

• School:  The list of individual school(s) on which you can report
  • If you’re an Administrator, you have the ability to select the name of an individual school to see the Reveal for just that school; All Schools (the entire district) is the default selection
  • If you’re a Tech Coach, you must be assigned to a school in order to view Reveal; Tech Coaches assigned to multiple schools will see the first school listed by default
• Report:  Week-over-week or month-over-month reporting timeframe; Week is the default selection
• Activity: The list of website URL and application names for which you can review usage data; All Activities is the default selection
  • To create an Activity Report for a specific website or application, click the Activity menu and select the desired website URL or application name
  • To create an Activity Report for all websites and applications, click the Activity menu and select All Activities

WEEK / PRIOR WEEK 

• Devices Monitored: Total number of student devices monitored that week by Reveal
• Students Monitored: Total number of students monitored that week by Reveal; differs from “Devices Monitored” if/when students login to more than one device
• Average Daily Screen Time: Average amount of time per week (in hours) students were actively using their devices
• Students Not Monitored: Total number of students that were not monitored that week by Reveal
  • Note: If a student was not monitored, it does not necessarily mean their Teacher(s) did not attempt to monitor them; rather, it means that the student device did not connect to any monitoring session(s).
• Websites Visited: Total number of unique URLs accessed by student devices that week
• Applications Used: Total number of unique applications accessed by student devices that week
  • Note: The Application Used section will be hidden for schools/districts that only support Chromebook devices as the Chromebook OS currently prevents monitoring activity outside the Chrome browser.

WEBSITE USAGE BY WEEK 

• Top 100 Websites: List of the 100 most popular websites students visited that week; sortable in ascending/descending order by Students, Views, Viewing Time, Average Viewing Time, and Trending 
• Students: Total number of students that accessed a website 
• Views: Total number of times students accessed a website during the week
  • For example:
    • If a student navigates to youtube.com and watches videos for 4 hours, only one (1) view is counted for youtube.com
    • If a student navigates to youtube.com, then to google.com, and finally back to youtube.com, two (2) views are counted for youtube.com
• % Time: Percentage of time (of the total amount of time) students spent actively using a website that week
• Average Viewing Time: Average amount of time students actively spent viewing a website that week
• Trending: A percentage increase or decrease in student device usage of a website, compared to the previous week

APPLICATION USAGE BY WEEK 

Note: The Application Usage By Week section will be hidden for schools/districts that only support Chromebook devices as the Chromebook OS currently prevents monitoring activity outside the Chrome browser. 

• Top 100 Applications: List of the 100 most popular applications students used that week; sortable in ascending/descending order by Students, Views, Viewing Time, Average Viewing Time, and Trending
• Students: Total number of students that accessed an application
• Views: Total number of times students accessed an application during the week
• % Time: Percentage of time (of the total amount of time) students spent actively using an application that week
• Average Viewing Time: Average amount of time students spent actively viewing a website that week
• Trending: A percentage increase or decrease in student device usage of an application, compared to the previous week 

TOTAL STUDENTS MONITORED BY DAY  

• The total number of students monitored each day of that week by Reveal

AVERAGE STUDENT DEVICE USAGE BY HOUR  

• The average number of students using their devices each hour of the day that week

PRINT

Use the Print button to print out the Reveal report or to save it as a PDF.

EXPORT 

Use the Save as CSV button to download the Reveal report as a CSV file.

For more on Reveal, read about Individual Activity Reports.