Moodle statistics are great. Personally, every October, I scream like a schoolgirl and wave the most recent statistics graph at my colleagues whilst shouting at how all the numbers are bigger. However, it seems that on busier servers, especially one like ours with 700,000 actions in one month, Moodle can easily fall behind.
For the past three months, since October 2011, our Moodle serve hasn’t been compiling statistics.
I can’t fully demonstrate the symptoms here, as I only decided to write this blog post after I had fixed things. But if you look at the graph below, you’ll see an earlier month where statistics also failed. 1st April 2011 has no actions logged.
Example Moodle statistics
This fix works on Moodle 1.9.3+, it should also work on Moodle 2.0 but some of the lines might be slightly different. YMMV
So… how to fix it… well… Continue Reading →