In the New Analytics/Weekly Online Activity, under Resources several course individuals are listed. How can a course participant be listed as a Resource? This seems very odd to me. Thanks for any input you may have!
@CynthiaEdwards1
The listing of a user happens when someone clicks on their name on the People page to view their profile.
Hi CynthiaEdwards1,
from recent experience I would suggest that students are clicking on the People view (Course Roster) or the avatars in discussions or announcements to view the profiles of peers or teachers. This isn't a bad thing as it does represent engagement and clickviews/page loads.
However this entry is more problematic, and looks from the description like a photoshop image UNTHSC STOCK .JPG
The reason that this is appearing is that it is loaded somewhere in your content as an image under a download link. Hence the number of pageviews/loads is being distorted, because analytics is counting the page load and the load of the individual images within it.
We have noted that changing the image link to /preview still allows the image to show on the page, but avoids the image display being treated as a page load for analytics purposes.
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