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How analytics is counted, and what is left out
What the numbers include, so you can trust them or know when not to.
A quiz on a board counts twice, and once. Both are true.
The four rules
A disclosure headed How this is counted appears alongside the filters. Its four rules are worth quoting exactly, because each one prevents a specific wrong conclusion.
- A quiz answered on a whiteboard or in a Virtual Lab counts under Quest Ladder and under that surface, and says so. Together counts it once.
- Together counts each student once and each minute once: time on surfaces used at the same moment is merged, not added.
- Answers from classroom sessions count. Completion leaves those sessions out, because the teacher sets their pace.
- Workshop means students using Workshop objects, on a board or through a shared link.
The first two together explain the thing that looks like a bug. Adding the per-surface figures up gives a bigger number than the Together row, because a quiz on a board is genuinely both — and a learner cannot be in two places for the same minute.
When not everything is counted
A notice appears when the range holds more than the analytics reads at once: not everything in this date range is counted, and it suggests a shorter range or one class for complete figures.
Take it seriously. A term-wide view across every class is indicative; a week for one class is exact. Do not compare two figures when one of them carried this notice and the other did not.
What is deliberately left out
| Excluded | Shown as |
|---|---|
| Your own practice runs | Your own practice runs are not counted in these numbers. |
| Classroom sessions, from completion only | The counting rule above. |
| Grading components a report cannot show | Report view excludes some grading components. Stored attempts are unchanged. |
The last one is worth understanding: the attempt data is complete, and a particular report is simply not showing part of it. Nothing has been lost.
Anonymous plays and quiet learners
Work done through a plain link appears as Anonymous link plays, described as counted in totals, never listed as a person. It is in your accuracy and attempts; it is in nobody's record.
The opposite case has its own line: a note saying how many students in this class did nothing on the chosen surfaces in this date range. That is often the most useful sentence on the page, because a learner who did nothing appears nowhere else.
Names in an LMS class
Where a class is linked to a learning platform, names can be shown — and the notice repeats that they are fetched each time and never stored or exported. An analytics export from such a class carries handles, not names; in a linked class a handle can be the learner's student ID.