Mahara offers basic statistics by default, but advanced reporting functionnality is not available. By
using a separate tool that integrates well with Mahara, such as the open source Piwik, Mahara
administrators can benefit from a multitude of insightful analytics reports.
This presentation will showcase some examples of such analytics and how they can help:
- Understand user behavior and their interactions with Mahara.
- Increase user engagement by analysing the data and implementing changes.
- monitor over time the availability, speed, and evolution of the Mahara system.
2. Who am I?
● Matthieu Aubry
● Frenchman living in
New Zealand
● Founded Piwik in 2007
● Lead Developer
● Software Engineer
● Favorite things in life:
Privacy, Freedom,
www, Peace, Love and
Nature.
3. Benefits of using Analytics
● Understand your audience
● Measure interactions
● Monitor usage over time
● And... increase your
ePortfolio usage!
5. What is ?
The leading open Web Analytics platform
Used by more than 1% of the Internet
1,100,000 websites worldwide
Translated in 53 languages
Free(dom) software
6. Our Mission Statement
"To create, as a community,
the leading international open
source web analytics platform,
that gives every user
full control of their data."
24. Web Analytics process
for the win
● Define a list of goals
● Measure
● Analyse
● Test and implement
● Repeat
25. Define what you want users
to do on your website
Examples of Goals for your ePortfolio
you may want to track in Piwik:
● new content is created
● existing content is updated
● content is shared
● a new user signs up
26. Create Goals
then view the number of conversions,
conversion rates, and more within Piwik.
27. Observe variations in popularity
of content over time
Your analytics tool becomes more useful
with time as it lets you compare data
28. Analyse Segments of users
Do advanced analysis by looking
at a subset of your users.
29. Most analytics tools give
only aggregated reports...
Piwik offers insights
on a per-user level
34. VS other analytics tools
● Privacy compliance
● No data storage limit
● Only you will have access to your data
● Real-time tracking
● Open Platform and Marketplace
● 6+ years of experience, 100+ features
35. More benefits out of the box
● Upload your custom logo
● Create scheduled Email reports
● Access to all the data via Web
APIs
36. Analytics on the go
View data in your browser or on the go
with Piwik Mobile on Android and iOS
37. Mahara & Piwik integration
Just a few examples of how Mahara could integrate
with Piwik:
● Report the type of users (students, teachers,
admins)
● Report the type of content being created
● Track username of people who signin
● Track users uniquely across all their devices
● Integrate Piwik reports within Mahara
38. Using Piwik
If you decide to use Piwik for your
ePortfolio site, you may also:
● Track your other websites
● Track your intranets sites
● Track your mobile apps usage
… into your existing Piwik server!
39. Get started with Piwik
Learn more at http://piwik.org
● User guides / FAQs / Forums
Use Piwik!
● Ask your Mahara service provider
about installing Piwik on your ePortfolio
● Or download Piwik from http://piwik.org
● Or benefit from Piwik Cloud hosting at
http://piwik.org/hosting/
Understand user behavior and their interactions with Mahara.
If you make changes, measure how they impact the system usage.
Automatically monitor website over time
Define a list of goals: why do you use Mahara at your institution?
Measure these goals and metrics
Analyse data to extract insights
Test alternatives and implement
Example segmentation analysis:
Compare traffic internal to school or department VS traffic from external users
See everyone who visited your website and immediately left.
Measure out-of-hours learners
How are students using the site VS teachers?
Your imagination is the limit for advanced segmentation analysis.
6 years XP
Focus on QA and security
So many other features
Maybe a new Mahara extension can be developed to leverage the full power of Piwik for Mahara users.
