Use Student Progress Reports to get insights from student activity in your courses and measure completion rates!
In this article:
About This Feature
Progress Reports provide an overview of student activity in your course. You can see when each student started the course, completed the course, and last signed in, as well as their view and completion rate of the course.
Cohort Reports allow you to compare student completion rates by groups of students with a common start date. For example, all students enrolled in January would be part of the January cohort and you can compare the completion percentage for your January cohort and February cohort. If you have made any changes to your course between cohorts, this helps to measure if your changes affected completion rates!
Group Reports are similar to Progress Reports, but can be run for a specific Group. You will be able to see details for all students in a Group including name, email, and completion rates for every course they are enrolled in.
How It Works
Reports can be viewed in Thinkific or exported as a CSV file. CSV (comma separated values) is a universal file type that can be opened by any spreadsheet program.
When exporting as a CSV file, a link to download your file will be sent to the email address you are currently logged in with. For example, if you are logged in as the Site Owner, it will be sent to your Site Owner email address and if you are logged in as a Site Admin, it will be sent to the Site Admin email address.
The following roles can view Progress Reports and Cohort Reports:
The following roles can view Group reports:
Progress Reports
Progress Reports can be viewed at a per-course level. You can see when each student started the course, completed the course, and last signed in, as well as their view and completion rate of the course.
How to View a Progress Report
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Progress
- Click Progress reports beside your desired Course name
You can choose to look at all students or search by a specific student. Just select from the User drop-down menu and click Apply.
You can export this data as a CSV by clicking the Export CSV button. CSV (comma separated values) is a universal file type that can be opened by any spreadsheet program.
Cohort Reports
A cohort is a grouping of students with a common start date. For example, everyone who enrolled in your course in January would be part of the January cohort.
Cohort Reports allow you to compare student completion rates by groups of students in a cohort. They can be viewed at a course level and will display the number of students in each cohort, the average % Complete of a course for each cohort of students, and a timeline.
How to View a Cohort Report
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Progress
- Click the ellipses (3 dots) to the right of Progress reports beside your desired Course name
You can choose to have this exported as CSV or view it as HTML. If you are viewing the Cohort Report (HTML) you can change the interval from weeks to months or years - just select the period you want to look at and use the Apply button to activate those filters.
Group Reports
You can also export progress per Group! Find out more about Groups and how to run Group Reports HERE.
Important Considerations
If you add new lessons to a course that has students already enrolled, we recommend resetting completions. This will cause the student's progress rate to adjust according to the existing content in your course.
For example, if you have 9 lessons in a course and a student is at 100% complete, when you add one more lesson and reset completions, the student's new progress rate will be 90%.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are some students missing a date under Activated at?
If you have a Free Preview set up for your course, students enrolled in the Free Preview will have no date under Activated at in the course progress report.