Description

MDID Usage Statistics is a web page designed to take data stored in the database used by MDID, parse that data, and display information about how MDID is used by faculty and students.

The project is a single .NET page (.aspx file and .cs file). Like MDID, this is open source and freely downloaded here.

Features

• Only MDID Administrators can view the statistics
• User selected time period
• Number of Active MDID Users for selected time period
• Number of Created or Modified Presentations during selected time period
• Bar graphs showing the frequency with which presentations were created and/or modified and students logged in
• Displays the total number of images used in presentations created or modified during selected time period

Additional Features for non-LDAP installations

• Number of student logins during selected time period
• Bar graph showing the frequency of student logins

Requirements

• MDID2

Additional Notes: Developed using MDID version 0.7.4 and 0.8.0 on a server running Microsoft Server 2003. This will probably work with earlier versions, but it is untested on an earlier release. If it works on an earlier version, let me know and I will be sure to update this page.

Installation

• Download and unpack the contents of the ZIP file
• Open the file ending in .cs (usagestatistics.aspx.cs). A simple text editor such as Notepad will be fine for this.
• Around line 21 you will see some variables demarcated by asterisks.
  -- The ldap variable should be set to true or false depending on your authentication method: true if you use LDAP (or IMAP or POP authentication) or false if you use MDID's authentication system.
  -- studentGName refers to the Student Group Name and is only applicable to non-LDAP installs. This represents the group to which your student users belong (at this time all students must belong to the same group).
  -- The app_dir variable is to indicate the main directory of your MDID installation.
  -- The usagestats_dir variable can stay the same or can be whatever you wish: it identifies the directory to which the graph images should be saved when they are created. Save the file when you are done editing it.
• Create a directory in the main folder of your MDID installation, the name of which should correspond to the value of the usagestats_dir variable mentioned above. Be sure the directory has the proper permissions so that the user you MDID installation runs as can write to it.
• Copy and Paste the usagestatistics.aspx and usagestatistics.aspx.cs files into MDID's main directory.
• Sign in to MDID as an administrator and replace the name of the page you are currently on with "usagestatistics.aspx" and hit enter or "go."

Please note there are no checks in place. For example, should you enter 2/31/07, nothing validates the date. In this instance, there would be an application error.

In Development

• Ability to save or export the results, including bar graphs

I am open to any suggestions or recommendations you might have, just drop me a line.

Download

(Right click on the link below and select "Save As..." or Left Click and "save" the file to disk)

 

Current

usagestatistics_0-5 (20 August 2009)

 

Older Versions

usagestatistics_0-4 (9 January 2008)
usagestatistics_0-3 (17 May 2007)
usagestatistics_0-2 (24 April 2007)
usagestatistics_0-1 (4 April 2007)

Page last updated: 20 August 2009