Tracking in Xerte

Tracking in an existing Xerte module

This way you can track

• how many times you Xerte module is opened
• how long students spent on the different pages
• the results of Xerte modules

This is how:

1. Click on the module you would like to track in Xerte:
   
2. Click on the ‘project properties’ / ‘eigenschappen leerobject’ button:
   
3. Make sure that the access (1) of the module is not private but published for example to make the access ‘public’ (2). Don’t forget to click ‘change access’ (3).
   
4. Click on ‘LTI/xAPI’ (1). Enable xApi & use globally configured xAPI LRS (2). Don’t forget to click update (3).

LTI/xAPI

1. After enabling the xAPI, the link of the module which is tracked, is shown at the bottom of the page. De link is also shown in the project details as shown in step 7.

Link to tracked module

1. To track the separate pages of the Xerte module, you have to add tracking to the separate pages by editing the module:
   
   
   
   

After that, add the tracking option in the optional properties to all the pages you want tracked:

Add tracking property

After adding the tracking option, you are able to fill in the following boxes:

Tracking options

Fill in the tracking label with the name of the page and if necessary the tracking grouping (read in the i what it means to group the tracking). 7) After adding the tracking option to all the pages you want tracked, you can see the results of the tracking (2) from the project details and the link of the tracked Xerte module (1). If you click on the graph, the dashboard becomes visible:

Project details

Here you can click on multiple things to see the results of the tracking.

Tracking dashboard

Now you can track your modules. If you have questions, sent an e-mail to cpio@uu.nl to get help and tips.