How can I check to see if a student has logged into Moodle or viewed a particular resource that I have posted?

There are a variety of ways that you can check student activity in Moodle to get a better sense of student engagement with the posted content. 

Last access to course

If you are interested in finding out when students last accessed the course's Moodle site, you can see this information on the Participants page.  

Using the left navigation menu, select Participants

To the right of each student's name, under Last access to course it will indicate how long it has been since the student last viewed the course (e.g. 3 days 5 hours)

Activity Logs

Activity logs will provide you with timestamped records of when students accessed specific items within the Moodle course. 

1. From the main course page, click the gear icon and select More 
2. Select Reports>Logs.  From here, the logs can be narrowed down by student, activity, and/or date. 

Activity Completion Report

This report will tell you who has completed each item based on its completion settings (set on the Edit settings page for that item)

1. From the main course page, click the gear icon and select More 
2. Select Reports>Activity Completion

Moodle Attendance Module

Looking for an easy way to keep track of attendance?  Moodle now has an integrated Attendance module.  With the Attendance module you can:

• Quickly populate your attendance record with all class sessions for the entire semester.
• Mark students as Present, Late, Excused or Absent, or create custom attendance designations.
• Automatically calculate attendance grades based on custom point values for each attendance designation.

To learn more about the Attendance module, read the tutorial on the Moodle Training Course.  It can be found in the Advanced Features section.

Please be aware that the Moodle Attendance module is a organizational tool for instructors and students and is not affiliated in any way to attendance records stored in Banner or Self-Service. Use of the Attendance module in Moodle is completely optional.