The Forum Data Source is a curated selection of LMS data that enables you to create Reports on the forum participation records of your users. Relevant items in this Data Source include the specific Forum Names, Posts, Subjects, Discussions, Dates, and Times of Modification of posts by users in courses.
The Forum Data Source is located in the Public folder in the Zoola™ Repository. To locate the Data Source in either the Repository or the Data Chooser (when selecting a Data Source to create an Ad Hoc View), navigate to Public > Moodle/Totara > Data Sources.
This Data Source contains LMS data organized to report on the forum posts of users in your courses. Forum data consists of the name type, modified/created dates, subject, ID, and parent of posts, discussions, and forums. The available User and Course information included in this Data Source can be used to structure these records by information from the learner and course profile information. Using fields and measures from the three sets included in this Data Source, you can easily build out Reports and Views to capture and analyze forum participation and discussion trends throughout your course offerings.
The links along the right-hand side of this article will open the Detailed Forum Table View and the Forum Statistics Crosstab View, respectively. If you are logged in to Zoola™, these views will open in the Ad Hoc Editor. The left-hand View panel will display the contents of the Forum Data Source, organized into sets of items (as both fields and measures).
All included sets are comprised of selections from the tables listed in the Moodle/Totara table, located at the end of the right-hand column.
Specifically, the Grades Data Source is comprised of the following sets:
Course: Items (fields and measures) in the Course set provide naming and categorization data for your LMS courses.
User: Items in the User set provide user identification information, such as user ID's, names, locations, and other LMS profile-related data.
Forum Data: Items in the Forum Data set provide identification information for forums, as well as specific post/discussion/forum details, such as the name, type, date, subject, and ID.