School account analytics

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Visit the Analytics page to see how your school is using Padlet. It brings together license usage, engagement, student impact, and content-safety stats in one place, broken down by billing period.

The Analytics page is only available for the following accounts and role types:

Classrooms: Owner and Teachers
Padlet for Schools: Owner and Admins
For all other account types, you can view your general analytics (such as how many views, visitors, contributors and posts that have occurred on a particular padlet), by clicking the three-dot ellipsis button (...) on the right side of your padlet > Details.

Access the Analytics page

  1. Log into your account > click on the Settings cog icon at the top-right corner of your dashboard.
  2. Click on your school's name (at the top) followed by Analytics in the settings menu on the left.

Use the Billing period dropdown at the top right to choose which renewal period you want to see, then toggle between the Overview, Usage, Impact, Safety, Top users and All users tabs to see specific statistics about each. Each tab's numbers update to match the billing period you've selected.

Viewing analytics

There are 6 different sections on your Analytics page:

  • Overview (a snapshot of your license usage and Padlet's impact on your school)
  • Usage (seat usage, member activity, and renewal status)
  • Impact (student collaboration and your most active padlets)
  • Safety (content automatically scanned for school appropriateness)
  • Top users (the members driving the most activity)
  • All users (every member of your workspace, searchable and exportable)

Toggle through each tab to get more insight on the statistics of your account!

Overview

The Overview tab is what you land on first. It shows how many licenses your active teachers are using and how many hours of collaboration each active teacher is getting, plus three impact stats for the billing period: time spent on Padlet, peer-to-peer interactions (posts, comments and padlet creations seen by others), and how much content was scanned for school appropriateness.

If your active teacher count is over your purchased licenses, a banner tells you so. This won't affect your current plan as it's only used to calculate your next renewal. Below the impact stats, Padlet may also surface a Top opportunity (for example, teachers who signed in but haven't created a padlet yet) with a one-click way to request a PD session.

Usage

The Usage tab breaks seat usage and engagement down further, in three parts:

  • Account (your active teachers against your license count, your active users against total school members, and how many days remain until renewal)
  • Reach (active teachers, new members and visitors for the billing period, plus a month-by-month chart of active teachers)
  • Engagement (posts, padlets, comments and reactions across all members, with a month-by-month chart for whichever metric you select)
An 'active' user or teacher is one who has contributed to the account (creating a padlet, posting, commenting, or reacting) within the billing period you're viewing.

Impact

The Impact tab focuses on student collaboration. Not only can you see student collaboration hours and peer-to-peer interactions for the billing period — you can also see a breakdown of multimedia student contributions by type (images, videos, links, files, audio), and your school's top 10 padlets, ranked by posts and by views.

Safety

The Safety tab shows how much content was automatically scanned for school appropriateness this billing cycle, including posts, comments, attachments, wall titles, and section titles, regardless of your padlets' individual moderation settings. It also shows how many scanned items were flagged for review and why (for example, profanity, alcohol, drugs, or sexual content), so you can see at a glance how your school compares to typical usage.

Top users

The Top users tab surfaces the members driving the most activity in your school: the top 10 by number of posts, and the top 10 by number of padlets created, for the billing period you're viewing.

All users

The All users tab lists every member of your workspace, with a search box and a role filter above the table so you can quickly narrow it down.

All information is broken down into the following categories:

  • Identifying information (Name/Username and Email)
  • Role (Owner, Admin, Teacher or Student)
  • Dates (Signup Date and Last Activity Date)
  • User's activity (Padlets, Posts, Comments and Reactions)
The All users tab is automatically sorted in alphabetical order by the Name/Username category. Use the search box to find a specific member by name or email, or the role filter to narrow the list down to a single role.

Exporting analytics

On the All users tab, you can download every member in your account as a .csv file by clicking Download.

An example of an exported .csv file from your All users tab is shown below:

Learn how you can use your exported analytics to bulk change user roles within your account!

FAQs

Why don't I see the Analytics button in my Settings?
This feature is not available for everyone. You will not see this feature unless you are the Owner or an Admin within a Padlet for Schools account, or the Owner or a Teacher within a Classroom account. (On a Team account, see Team account analytics instead.)

For all other account types, you can view general analytics for each individual padlet by clicking the three-dot ellipsis button (...) on your opened padlet > Details.
Why does my Analytics page look different from what's described here?
Analytics currently looks different depending on your account type. For Team accounts, you'll find a breakdown here; Classroom and Padlet for Schools accounts see the newer Overview/Usage/Impact/Safety/Top users/All users tabs. Make sure you're reading the page that matches your account type. If you're on a Team account and think you should have the newer experience, it isn't available on Team accounts yet.
I am a Padlet for Schools user. Why don't I see the Analytics button in my Settings?
Only the Owner and users with Admin rights can see the Analytics page. If you are the Owner or an Admin and you do not see the Analytics page, please reach out to us.
Can I have more information about my Padlet for Schools account?
We are working to include more statistics in the Analytics page. In the meantime, if you urgently need other statistics, please reach out to us. We may be able to provide other stats.
I only have a personal account. Can I have statistics about my account?
Yes. For each individual padlet, you can click the three-dot ellipsis button (...) on the right side of your padlet > Details. For your account as a whole, please contact us!
Why does my Analytics page show a "licenses over limit" message?
This means your active teacher count for the selected billing period is higher than the number of licenses on your plan. It won't affect your current plan or access — it's only used to calculate your next renewal. Contact us if you have questions about your renewal.
Why did my active user count change after the Analytics page update?
An "active" user or teacher is now counted for the billing period you're viewing, rather than the last 12 months, and every kind of contribution (posting, commenting, reacting, creating a padlet) counts toward it. If you compare an old export to what you see now, the numbers may not match for this reason.

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