User ID Analysis

This document records the secondary workflow as developed in the Measuring qualification effects project, and later refactored in the Refining a framework project, to track a students progress across several courses. In other words, rather than the course being the unit of analysis, the student is. The student’s progress is traced by their participation, which can be in several courses taken over several years.

Workflow

userid analysis workflow

Userid analysis workflow

The workflow builds on the forum posts analysis. Therefore, that workflow has to be complete and have produced the data inputs before running this analysis. See the forum posts analysis documentation for more information.

trace_userids script

Trace participants by their Moodle user IDs across forums.

unique_userids script

Identify unique Moodle user IDs for each days’ posts in forums.

reports folder

Contains all html files produced by the scripts.

data folder

Contains all csv files read and written by the scripts.