8.1. Overview¶
8.1.1. Navigation¶
As site administrator you have an additional navigation item, Site Administration. When you click on it, your navigation changes completely to give you quick acess to all the areas for the administration of Mahara.
Top level navigation for a site admin once inside “Site Administration”
When you click on one of the items, a second-level navigation opens up with the sub items. You also see the sub items on the main page of the site administration.
Site admin overview page
8.1.2. Register your Mahara site¶
You can choose to register your Mahara site with mahara.org, and help us to build up a picture of the Mahara installations around the world and to get a picture by how many users Mahara is used.
Register your Mahara site
You can preview the data that is sent. Sending weekly updates is recommended so that the information we have is up-to-date. All information is sent anonymously. We will only know, for example, which version of Mahara you are running, how many times blocks or artefacts have been used, how many users you have etc.
8.1.3. Site information¶
The Site information gives you a quick overview of:
- How your site is used.
- When your site was installed.
- How big the database is.
- How much sitea data has been accumulated.
- Which version of Mahara you are running.
- Whether your cron is running or not.
Site information
If you have problems with your Mahara instance and you request information from the community in the forums, this information, esp. about your version and the cron, are useful to have. Furthermore, the version number allows you to check that you have the latest security release of your Mahara version installed.
Notitie
The cron job is very important in Mahara as a number of vital tasks are only performed when it is running. You can find more information of how to set it up in the wiki.
8.1.4. Site statistics¶
You can view some statistics about your Mahara site that give you an indication of how your site is used.
8.1.4.1. Full site information¶
The full site information gives you information about:
- Installation date of your site
- Number of registerered users (“Users”), i.e. everybody who has an account
- Number of active users, i.e. users that have at least logged in once and have done something
- Number of groups and average group membership of a user
- Number of pages and average pages per user with pages
- Database size
- Disk usage
- Mahara version
- Information on the cron
Overview of the site
8.1.4.2. Users¶
On the Users tab of the site statistics, you see information about
the average user
- average number of friends with the name of the person with most friends
- average number of pages with the author of the most pages
- average amount of file quota used with the user who has used most
daily user statistics with information about how many users logged in, were created and existed in total on a specific day
institution membership with the number of users per institution in descending order
Statistics about users
8.1.4.3. Groups¶
On the Groups tab of the site statistics, you find information about
the number of groups by group type
- course group
- standard group
the number of groups by access type
- controlled membership group
- invite group
- open membership group
- request membership group
The size of the groups in descending order according to the number of members including
- number of members
- number of pages
- number of forums
- number of forum posts
Statistics about groups
8.1.4.4. Pages¶
The Pages tab in the site statistics holds information about
- the most frequently used blocks in portfolio pages
- a graphical distribution of profile, group and portfolio pages
- the most popular pages sorted in descending order with links to the page and the author
Statistics about pages
8.1.5. Close site¶
You may close the site to everyone except administrators. This is useful when you prepare for and complete a database upgrade. Only administrators will be able to log in until you either reopen the site or an upgrade is successfully completed.