Implementing operational control over the educational activities of students (and teachers) is one of the most important problems of distance learning. Control allows you to receive feedback and optimize the use of working time and improve the quality of training.

Typically, a distance learning course consists of several modules, including theoretical and reference material, online lectures, webinars, tests, and assignments for independent work. After each module, learning outcomes are assessed.

There are three main types of control: preliminary, current and final.

– Preliminary control reveals initial knowledge and skills. Based on its results, the teacher plans work, identifies gaps in knowledge, decides which topics should be allocated more time and which ones should be covered faster. Preliminary control is usually carried out by testing.

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A new type of analytics has been added to StaffCounter – employee rating. Now you can review top employees with discipline or productivity performance issues. This analytics may help you detect outliers that often don’t fit the management templates. 

In the Reports menu, choose the Employee rating.

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On the Report by late coming appeared a new aggregate table.

Here you can choose what data you need and it will be displayed on a single table. You can create this table for a department or for a single device. Continue reading article →

As you could see, in the dashboard appeared a sub-menu in the Dashboard menu. The first command, named  Dashboard overview leads to a well-known page with departments and devices. 

The second command, Departments, will show a list of departments. Here you can see all departments in your account, delete empty departments and edit the name and timezone of the department. You can easily add a new department here. Continue reading article →

The backup creation was modified because the size of the uploaded data had been increased to 2 GB.

Now when you create a backup copy, the server asks you to wait for a while, until it prepares the package. During the processing time, the server says Preparing for downloading, and when the package is ready it shows the link ready to Download.

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Now you can copy all activity log file to an Excel document.

On the right part of the page, you can see a Copy to Excel command that helps you to copy all log file to an Excel document.

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The new version of the StaffCounter agent for Ubuntu was successfully tested on Ubuntu 22. 

But to make it work, you have to disable Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop.
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We announce a beta version for Linux Red Hat. You can test it right now. Download it from the Staffcounter for Linux download page.

Note: Before installing the Staffcounter agent on Red Hat Linux, you have to change the display server protocol from Wayland to X11. 

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How to restore X11>>

After this:

1. Connect the target machine via SSH, copy archive unzip, edit config (manager email set, auto connection =1 ), and Install by install.sh.

sudo ./install.ssh

2. Login into Linux via GUI Login screen, as a normal user account (non-Admin) – Staffcounter should start, register the device in the dashboard and start monitoring.

3. Restart the PC, and log in as a normal user account – StaffCounter should continue work.