Brickfield Education Labs

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Introduction

The Downloads report displays the number of requested content conversion downloads per conversion type for the course, or courses.

Where to find the Downloads report

The Downloads report can be accessed via:

  • Site administration > Plugins > Local plugins > Report for Alternate Formats, and then click on the Downloads tab.
  • Course actions menu > More > Reports > File Conversions, and then click on the Downloads tab.

How to use the Downloads report

The Downloads report displays a page which includes a table where each row is one of the files with the number of downloads.

The Downloads report displaying the report heading, dates its showing data from, collapsed filters section, download table data as dropdown menu and download button, and the downloads table. The downloads table has 8 columns: filename, licence, text, audio, ebook, braille, daisy, and downloads.

The heading area of the report will show whether the conversions listed are for one course or many courses.

  • If the results are for one course, the course name is displayed.
  • If the results are for more than one course, the number of courses is displayed.

 

The table displays a row for each course that contains eight parts:

  • Filename
  • Licence
  • Text
  • Audio
  • Ebook
  • Braille
  • Daisy
  • Total

View the number of downloads for the resources in your course(s)

To view the number of downloads for the resources in your course(s):

  1. Ensure you are viewing the “Downloads report”.
  2. View the table in the report for the breakdown of the downloads per resource.

The available filters for the Downloads report

The Downloads report displaying the report heading, dates its showing data from, and the filters section. There are 5 filters: categories, courses, roles, date from, date to.

This Downloads reports table data is filterable by the following:

  • Categories *
  • Courses *
  • Roles
  • Date from
  • Date to

 

Please note: Categories and Courses don’t appear if you have landed from an inpidual course’s report link, as it will be filtered on one course already. Use the “View All My Courses tab” to filter on multiple courses or categories.

The available download options for the Downloads report

This Download reports table data can be usually downloaded as the following, however this is dependent on your Moodle site’s admin settings as to which download options are enabled:

  • Comma separated values (.csv)
  • Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
  • HTML table
  • Javascript Object Notation (.json)
  • OpenDocument (.ods)
  • Portable Document Format (.pdf)

Capability Requirements

Access to Brickfield Alternate Formats is controlled by capabilities, and users must have the correct capabilities in the correct context.

  • ‘local/bfaltformat:viewsystemreport’ capability – View Brickfield Alternate Format Jobs System Report
  • ‘local/bfaltformat:viewcoursereport’ capability – View Brickfield Alternate Format Jobs Course Report

 

For more information, see: Capabilities.