Report Content

You can specify different content for the Hot Potatoes reports.

Selecting the type of report

Overview
This report is a list of attempts at this quiz. "abandoned" attempts are included, but "in progress" attempts are not shown. It shows the picture and name of each user, along with their grade for the quiz and the score, time and duration of each attempt. Attempts may be selected and then deleted if required.

Simple statistics This report is a list of all completed attempts at this quiz. Attempts marked as "abandoned" or "in progress" are not included. It shows the picture and name of each user, along with their grade for the quiz, and the score of each question in each attempt. It also gives the average scores of the individual questions and the quiz as a whole.

Detailed statistics
This report shows full details of all completed attempts at this quiz, Attempts marked as "abandoned" or "in progress" are not included. The report contains the following tables:

- the responses table, which shows how each user responded to each question in each of their attempts at the quiz.
- the item analysis table, which lists the responses to each question and the frequency of each response.

Click trail report
This report shows details of every click by every student during completed attempts at the Hot Potatoes quiz. The report can be very large and is intended to be downloaded and viewed in a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel. Details of the columns in this report are available in the click trail table help file.

Selecting a course

This course
The report will show responses by participants in the current course

All my courses
The report will show responses by participants for all courses which use this quiz and in which you are a teacher. To be used in several courses, the quiz must be located in the Site files directory. This option is only available to site administrators.

Selecting users

All participants
The report will show responses by students, teachers, course creators and administrators. Responses by the "guest" user, if any, will also be included.

Students
The report will show responses by students taking this course. Teacher's responses will not be included in the report

Single student
The report will show responses by a single student selected from a drop-down list of students' names

Selecting grades

All attempts
The report will include the responses from all the attempts by each user

Best attempt
The report will only include the responses from the highest scoring attempt by each user

First attempt
The report will only include the responses from the first attempt by each user

Last attempt
The report will only include the responses from the most recent attempt by each user