Status: Product definition
Overview
In order to have the information necessary to constantly improve Open edX, the "Survey Report" project was created. This project allows administrators to send anonymized information about their initiatives. This information is received by axim and among other uses it feeds the annual report.
The report contains:
Total number of active unique courses.
Total number of recently active users with login in the last 4 weeks.
Total number of users ever registered in the platform.
Total number of active enrollments in the platform.
Total number of generated certificates.
Extra information that admins can configure to send along (the current version in master contains no info here and there have been discussions about adding the release version or the site name. No decision has been reached)
Generating a report is currently done in the admin panel under /admin/survey_report/surveyreport/. It is available since the Palm release
Problem
There is no mechanism for sending the report to be done automatically and to do it manually you have to remember to do it by entering Djando admin and among all the options, look for the one that says "Survey report". Considering that and that the functionality is new and relatively unknown, very few are going to generate and send the report.
Solution
We propose the following solutions and recommend implementing both.
However, we are open to hearing other possible solutions to this problem.
Solution 1
Implement an announcement functionality that work similarly to the Wikipedia fundraising banner. Two times a year the administrators with the is_superuser flag will be presented with a banner explaining what the report is, who it is sent to, what do we do with it and asking that they create one. A call to action will let them create the report immediately and also a button will allow them to close the banner.
The banner would have the following message:
The Open edX Project relies on the collective strength of its community to be a thriving platform for online education.
Open edX is a dynamic ecosystem and it is used in diverse learning environments. By sharing anonymized reports of aggregated data, you can contribute to the collective knowledge of the community. This data can help us all understand the reach of our project, make better decisions and ultimately support innovation in lifelong learning and advance next generation learning experience platforms.
We invite you to join the Open edX Data Sharing Initiative by sharing an anonymized reports of aggregated data from your institution's usage of the platform. The report data will be sent to Axim Collaborative, the non-profit behind the Open edX project.
If you agree and want to send a report you can click the button below. You can always send reports and see the status of reports you have sent in the past at /admin/survey_report/surveyreport/.
[Send report button]
[I don’t want to send the Survey. Don’t show me this]
Functioning
This banner would be shown to users when the following conditions are met:
There is no report generated in the last 6 Months.
The user has both the
is_staffandis_superuserflags set as true.The user is navigating any page in the /admin/* path.
There is no record of the message being dismissed in the last 6 Months
Access to this functionality by roles in Django Admin
Role | Can see | Can use |
|---|---|---|
Superadmin (is_superuser) | X | X |
Admin (is_staff) | - | - |
Solution 2
Creating a tutor extension included in tutor full that sends the survey report automatically gives 6 months.
Functioning
People who have this extension enabled will not be shown the solution 1 announcement.