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Activity: time on boards, in objects and in labs
The tab that answers whether they were there, as distinct from whether they were right.
Attempts tell you they answered. Activity tells you they turned up.
What it shows
Activity reports, per learner, when and for how long they were on a board, in a Workshop object, in a Virtual Lab or answering a quiz, and what they did there.
It is the only tab that is about time rather than correctness, which makes it the one that catches the things a mark hides: the learner who spent an hour and answered three questions, and the one who answered thirty in four minutes.
The tiles
They follow the surfaces you have chosen. Active students is always there; Time on boards and Active time appear for Whiteboard, Interactions for Workshop or Virtual Lab, and Lab steps for Virtual Lab.
Time on boards and active time are different numbers on purpose. The first is how long the board was open; the second is how long somebody was doing something. A large gap between them is a tab left open, not a learner working.
The daily chart
A line chart of minutes per day, described as minutes on boards and in active use, with its own data table beneath so the figures are readable rather than only visible.
Its shape is often the finding. Work that only happens in lesson time means nothing is being done at home; work that happens entirely the night before a deadline is worth a conversation about spacing.
The student table
Beneath the chart, learners are listed most active first, paged, captioned with how many students, where and over what range. Opening a row goes to that learner's Timeline, carrying the same range, surfaces and filters with it.
That hand-off is the useful path: spot an odd row here, land in their timeline, and see what the time was actually spent on.
Exporting
Export CSV takes the activity as it is filtered, named for the range. It is the route into a spreadsheet when you need to combine it with something the platform does not know about.
Bear in mind the truncation notice: a long range across many classes is indicative rather than exact, and an export inherits whatever the view was showing.