Flipped Classroom: Usage Statistics

Welcome to final Flipped Classroom of the year!  This month, we’re talking about OverDrive reports and collection information- or to put it more simply: Usage Statistics!

Introduction

One of the many tools available to WSDLC members in their Advantage Account(s) via OverDrive Marketplace is Insights. Marketplace Insights is where you can go to view how your students are using and interacting with Sora, the shared collection, and your Advantage collections.

To get you started, watch OverDrive’s video Introduction to Marketplace Insights. This video will show you the ins-and-outs of OverDrive reports for the shared collection, along with giving you instructions on how to find information about

  • Sora activity
  • Trending titles
  • Checkouts
  • Holds
  • Purchase orders
  • Specific titles

You can also view the video by clicking here.  

Looking for a how-to on getting specific information? Here are short videos on the three most popular reports:

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If step-by-step how-tos are more your speed, we’ve got those for you, too:

Advantage Reports

You can also run reports to find data related specifically to your Advantage titles.

To view Advantage reports:

  1. Sign into OverDrive Marketplace with your Advantage account.
  2. Select the Insights tab.
  3. Under Popular reports (on the left side of the page), select Current holds, Checkouts, or Title status & usage.
  4. In the report options window, select the Advantage-only option:
    • Advantage titles only
    • Show only checkouts by my Advantage users on my Advantage-owned titles
      The checkbox for Advantage titles only selected in the Current holds report options window
  5. Click Update to load the report in Marketplace, or click Create worksheet to export your results.

It truly is this straightforward!

Sora Activity

If you are looking for a quick, easy-to-digest report to show off how your students are using Sora, OverDrive staff and WSDLC project managers all agree that the Sora activity page is the report you need! The Sora Activity Page, found under the Insights tab in OverDrive Marketplace, offers at-a-glance insight into your students’ behavior and progress in Sora.

Your Sora activity page includes:

  • Reading data: This section tells you the total books opened, total time read, average time per book by format, and the average time per book by audience
  • User activity: This section shows you the achievements earned, average time per session, average time per user, and the number of unique users
  • Trending titles: Here you can see the top 10 titles by checkouts and the top 10 titles by time read

The PDF below will show you how you can access your Sora Activity page:

Sora Activity Page Click Here to download this PDF

More information about the Sora activity page can be found here.

Things to Note About Insights► Most checkout data is available through OverDrive Marketplace reports within 30 minutes. However, the checkout isn’t counted until a title has been returned. This means that if you are running a report to see how many checkouts there were last month, you may want to wait until a few weeks in to the current month before running the report; you wouldn’t want to miss any checkouts that started on the 28th of last month, but weren’t returned until the full checkout period 3 weeks later!

► In each report, there is a link to a help article at the top. This link will give you the low-down about that specific report:  terminology used, caveats, etc. 

► Each month, WSDLC Project Managers will do a lot of the consortium-wide compiling for you! Before the 5th of each month, a new file will become available with the previous-month’s usage statistics, with earlier months’ checkouts updated to catch any checkouts that are returned later in the month.
You can find the monthly statistics at the bottom of the WSDLC Year-to-Date Statistics page. 

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Understanding Audience vs CAL

Want more help on Usage Statistics? 

If you want more information, check out Marketplace Help. It’s all there, organized in a Q&A format.

Or, schedule a 20-minute one-on-one session with OverDrive staff to get your specific questions answered! You can reach out to the WSDLC OverDrive team (wsdlc@overdrive.com) to schedule your appointment.

This brings us to the end of not only another Flipped Classroom training session, but also to the end of the training calendar year! Thank you so much for all of your time and effort!

If you would like to talk with an OverDrive expert about how you can most effectively market Sora, schedule a one-on-one session!  Contact wsdlc@overdrive.com to schedule your 20 minute session.

If you have questions specifically about the WSDLC consortium, you can contact wsdlc-info@wils.org.

You can view the full year’s training plan and revisit previous Flipped Classrooms here: WSDLC Training Schedule

Thank you again, and enjoy your summer!