Profile pages

I've been delving further into the students' use of their profile pages in Compass, and am finding some interesting, if unsurprising patterns.

1. Students are mainly interested in their profile pages when they start the course. 

Profile edits, by action type


Profile edits, by cohort
 

The reason that the spike is so much lower at the start of 2014 then it was at the start of 2013, was that staff uploaded the students' photos for them in 2014, whereas students uploaded their own photos in 2013 (I have excluded staff activity from the graph). The spike was expected, but it interesting to see the students still checking their photos and uploading new ones throughout the year. It'll be interesting to check how many students have modified their photos and how many have multiple photos available online.

2. Students are mainly interested in each others' photos when they get assigned to new groups.

Profile page views by Cohort 2013, per week

There is still an average of 114 profile page views per week outside the peak times, but there are very clear peaks (above 1000 views/week) at the start of each school year.

3. Students are mainly interested the profiles of student in their own cohort

The x-axis lists all the student profiles, ordered by number of page views; the y-axis is number of page views

Particularly during the first weeks of each year, students are mainly looking at the profiles of students in their own cohort. The above graph shows each cohort has a large number of page views of around 300 students (their own cohort), with a smaller number of views across the other cohorts.