Request for information
Some interest has been expressed in the development of an administrative tool to draw together and present usage statistics for UC Davis Sakai/SmartSite. Before moving forward, we want to get people's opinions on what they would like to see happen in this direction.
Primary interest groups/views/consumers of Sakai usage statistics
There are several different groups that may have both overlapping and non-overlapping requirements for assessing the actual usage of Sakai on a campus-wide basis.
- Technical (developers, dbas)
- to predict growth, evaluate long-term resource needs; to quantify performance
- Communications/Marketing
- to track adoption and articulate user interest
- Management
- to determine strategy based on current usage groups; to target specific groups for adoption
Types of data analysis
Potential solutions will probably fall into at least one of these two areas.
- Real time event monitoring
- Data-mining of existing usage information in the database
What's already out there?
A group in Portugal has put together a tool called SiteStats, which is currently marked as a Sakai Contrib. It provides what is effectively an instructor-level view of usage on a site-by-site basis, which does not at the moment seem to fit exactly with what's needed here at UC Davis. But it may be possible to make use of some of their code or user interface.
– Confluence Docs: http://issues.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/Gz0
– SVN for v2.1.x: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/ufp/sakai_2-1-x/sitestats/
UCD Functionality Wish List:
At this point in time, the following is just a wish list because we don't know yet if it's possible to determine all these statistical data points from the currently collected data in Sakai.
- How many unique users have access sakai
- How many course sites
- How many project sites
- Hourly concurrent users peaks
- Most accessed course sites (top 10)
- Most accessed project sites (top 10)
- Most used tools in course sites (either by tool presents in sites or usage frequency)
- Most used tools in project sites (either by tool presents in sites or usage frequency)
- etc.
Once we have a complete UCD functionality wish list, we need to determine/research, which functionalities can actually be implemented.