Usage Statistics

Accessing course page statistics in ERes - a simple primer for faculty

Faculty frequently want to check their ERes pages to see how many times students might have accessed certain documents. ERes contains a powerful statistics tool that is easy to use and that works extremely quickly. There's nothing to set up or install, and faculty can check the stats from any location and at any time. Stats can be compiled for monthly or daily usage, and for document hits or course page hits.

Start by navigating to your course page from the ERes home page. From the right side of the page, click on Page Management and log in. (contact ERes if you're not sure what your login user name and password are). You should be at a screen that looks like this:

Click on Get Access Statistics in the lower right corner. You'll see a screen that gives you a variety of options:

Use the pulldown menu to select either Course Page Hits (number of times the course page itself was accessed) or Document Hits (a list of all documents on the page and how many times they were accessed). Select Monthly to get a list of how many times the access took place during a given month (for example, you might want to know how many times the Johnson article was read during September), or Daily to get the accesses broken down by date (for example, you might want to know many students might have accessed the article the night before an exam).

Choose From: and To: dates and click the box shown if you'd like all of the records to display on one page. Then click on the Continue button and your stats will display on screen. Note: In the following examples, I've chosen to get stats for a report type of Document Hits, monthly, from September 1, 2001, to October 26, 2001, and I've checked the Display all records on one page box.

Please note that in this example, the documents are in alphabetical order for each month, so you'll see all of the documents on your course page listed in the month beginning 9/1, and then you'll see all of the documents again for the month beginnning 10/1.

I can see in this list how many times each of my documents was accessed over a month-long period.

Example 1: Stats given by month

By clicking on the Resource Name link, you can then reorganize the same list so that it is strictly in alphabetical order. In this case, you see that each document is listed twice (once for each month), but the two listings are right next to each other. So, for example, this might be the best way to organize something if you wanted to check on the number of times a particular document was accessed over a period of months. I can see here that the Circulation Sub List was accessed 26 times in September and 9 times in October.

Example 2: Stats given alphabetically by resource name

Finally, I can click on the Hits link and reorganize the same list based upon the number of times that each item was accessed. I can see by this list that the Circulation student review training was barely accessed October but that our Circ students were looking at the Circulation Desk Schedule a lot in September.

Example 3: Stats given by number of accesses

Access stats can be checked at any time, from any web location. The stats page also gives instructions on how you might copy and paste the stats into Word or Excel if you would like to save or display them.

If you have any questions about how to access your course page stats or about how to use any other features of your faculty account, please contact Bud Hiller in ISR.

Page maintained by Bud Hiller.
Last updated 9/25/02