[LON-CAPA-users] help interpreting user activity logs

Todd Ruskell lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:20:46 -0700


Hi,

I've been looking at user activity logs lately, and have a couple
questions regarding their interpretation.  First, a snippet of the html
output (I've replaced the actual user with test_user, and the grade_symb
entries with dummy values).

=====================================
  26  Question 19  2008-11-07 12:33:58  POST
  grade_courseid  =  csm_8o17991b99c9c48bbcsml1
  grade_domain  =  csm
  grade_noincrement  =  1
  grade_symb  =  actual_resource.problem
  grade_target  =  analyze
  grade_username  =  test_user
  no_update_last_known  =  1

  27  /adm/roles  2008-11-07 12:33:58  LOGIN

  28  Question 19  2008-11-07 12:33:58  POST
  CODE  =
  grade_courseid  =  csm_8o17991b99c9c48bbcsml1
  grade_domain  =  csm
  grade_symb  = actual_resource.problem
  grade_target  =  answer
  grade_username  =  test_user
  no_update_last_known  =  1

  29  /adm/roles  2008-11-07 12:33:57  LOGIN
  30  /adm/roles  2008-11-07 12:33:56  LOGIN
  31  /adm/roles  2008-11-07 12:33:56  LOGIN

  32  Question 16  2008-11-07 12:33:55  POST
  grade_courseid  =  csm_8o17991b99c9c48bbcsml1
  grade_domain  =  csm
  grade_noincrement  =  1
  grade_symb  =  actual_resource2.problem
  grade_target  =  analyze
  grade_username  =  test_user
  no_update_last_known  =  1

  33  Question 16  2008-11-07 12:33:55  POST
  CODE  =
  grade_courseid  =  csm_8o17991b99c9c48bbcsml1
  grade_domain  =  csm
  grade_symb  =  actual_resource2.problem
  grade_target  =  answer
  grade_username  =  test_user
  no_update_last_known  =  1

===============================================
1.  What do the "POST" actions mean?  Do they mean a grade was changed
on the resource "Question *" for the user listed in grade_username?

2.  How is it that so many actions happen so quickly?  My naive view of
this is that in a total time interval of 3 seconds, two grades were
changed and the login page was viewed 4 times, but the user never logged
out . . .  That strikes me as being some pretty quick mouse work.

3.  I also see a lot of "VIEW" actions of /adm/navmaps.  I presume those
are loads of the navigation page.  I don't suppose there's a way to
extract what folders were open for each of those views?

Thanks,

Todd


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Dr. Todd Ruskell
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