[Building Sakai] Tool usage analysis

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Martin,

Any data retrieved from within Sakai is going to depend on the events, so it is then up to the tool/kernel to publish them. So web server logs might indeed be your best bet. 

I'd be interested to see this info - you'd need some mapping of the tool placement ID to the tool registration ID though, but that shouldn't be too difficult if you mash up the logs with the info from the Sakai DB table that stores this.

cheers,
Steve


On 15/02/2012, at 11:31 PM, Martin B. Smith wrote:

> On 02/14/2012 06:01 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> The Site Stats tool provides this information. You can see how many times a tool has been included in sites. You could also glean some info from the various events that are fired.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Steve
> 
> Hey Steve,
> 
> The folks over here are asking questions like, "Overall in the system, how much do folks use one tool over another this semester?" As far as I can tell, I can't really answer that with site stats. Web server logs provide a wealth of information in this area, and don't depend on each tool's over- (or under-) abundance to emit events.
> 
> If there's a more clever way this is being done in the community, aside from webserver logs, I'd love to hear about it.
> 
> Thanks all,
> -- 
> Martin B. Smith
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> University of Florida
>