Is there a way to count the number of times a student opened an activity?
I am using a ticker to measure time spent on solving a problem, but students can go around it if they close the activity and login again. This way, the ticker starts from zero.
Here is an example.
This may be silly, but I think you can use aggregate to store the number of times a specific student has logged in the activity. Force the student to click a “START” button to start the test, then you can count that. I have never used aggregate before (since I am not a teacher), but I did make the forcing thing here.
Maybe @Daniel_Grubbs can help with that.
Unfortunately, this extra layer does not solve the main problem: once a students closes the activity and opens it again, the timer starts from zero 
Somehow we can see the list of students oredered by the time they entered the activity. Is there a way to get to this log?
Sorry. Not sure about the list of students, though. It might work. Very tricky.
I’m fairly certain there have been a variety of requests related to logs and progress, and that is not currently a feature that is available.
I’m not the best with tickers because I try to avoid them whenever possible, but I know I’ve seen a number of timer related threads, with some that are able to pick up the timer where it left, if memory serves. I know that using saveOnChange is the norm for anything built in the curriculum that includes a ticker, which may be what you need to achieve.
Wow, thank you for the tip! The ticker indeed keeps the timing if students leave the activity and continues from that spot when they join again later.
Here is the link to the saveOnChange timer.
So now another question arises: is there a way to count how many times the ticker was stopped?
So, there’s a way to connect timers in different graphs using the ticker to get a running total time. Using that I figured a way to increment a screen visit count, but both graphs have to be visible otherwise the tickers don’t activate and communicate. Since students always land on Screen 1 when entering an activity, the count would increment if the running total ended on a different screen. If you still wanted only a problem timer, you could have separate actions for the global timer, and the problem timer.
Daniel, thank you so much! I was able to concoct something that I can use - a page that hides the answer box if a student navigates away from it.
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