Moodle keeps detailed logs of all activities that users perform on your site. You can use these logs to determine who has been active in your site, what they did, and when they did it.

Moodle has a modest log viewing system built into it. You can see the logs under Administration | Reports. These reports enable you to look at the raw logs for a course. However, for sophisticated log analysis, you need to look outside of Moodle. The following section will help you with the tools you need to view and analyze your site logs.

The Reports Page

The following is a screenshot of the Reports as it appears in Moodle's Logs page:

You can use this page to display three different kinds of information. From top to bottom, they are:

1. Raw logs

2. Activity report

3. Site statistics

Let's look at each separately.

Viewing Logs

Notice that Moodle's display of the log files can be filtered by course, participant, day, activity, and action. You can select a single value for any of these filters:

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