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All Courses Report: How to View Complete Course History

Summary

This guide explains how to access, create, and customize the All Courses Report, including template configuration, generation options, and practical use cases for viewing complete course history across all users and courses.

Introduction

The All Courses Report provides a quick view of progress for all users on all courses in selected group(s). You can generate the report by filtering either by groups or by specific users, giving you flexibility in how you view course completion data. For a complete overview of the Reports section, refer to Reports: An Overview of the Reports Section in LMS.

Steps to Follow

How to Create a Custom All Courses Report Template

The Report Generation tab contains predefined templates that come with your KnowledgeCity LMS, along with any custom templates you have previously created. If the default All Courses template meets your needs, you can run it directly. To create a new custom template with specific fields and settings, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to Reports > New Report Template.

  2. From the Report type dropdown, select All courses.

When you select All Courses as the report type, the system automatically populates default fields, along with default template name, language, description, and title style, all of which you can customize to suit your needs.

  1. Configure your template:

Field

Description

Template name

Specify a unique name (e.g., "Complete Course History Report")

Template language

Select the preferred language for report output

Description

Provide a brief description (up to 500 characters) to clarify the report's purpose

Title style

Format the report title using bold, italic, underline, font size, alignment, and title text and background color options

Include portal logo

Toggle to add your portal logo to the report output

Default Fields in This Report

  • Group: The user group(s) the user belongs to.

  • User Name: The user's unique login identifier.

  • Date of Birth: The user's birth date.

  • Course ID: Unique identifier for the course in the LMS.

  • Course Name: Official name of the course.

  • Begin: Date when the user started the course.

  • Begin time: Time when the user began the course session.

  • Watched: Date when the user fully viewed all course content.

  • Watched time: Time when the user completed viewing all course content.

  • Passed: Date when the user successfully passed the course.

  • Passed time: Time when the user met the criteria to pass.

  • Certificate: Unique certificate number issued upon course completion.

  • Score: Score achieved on the certification quiz.

You can modify these defaults or add additional fields to tailor the report to your requirements. For detailed descriptions of all available fields, refer to Report Fields: A Complete Reference Guide for All Reports.

  1. Customize columns using the rows adjustment section:

    • Click Add column to include additional fields.

    • Drag and drop columns to reorder if required.

    • Click the Edit button on any column to format, style, or add conditional rules.

    • Click the Delete button to remove columns.

For detailed instructions on managing columns, refer to Report Templates: How to Manage Columns with Rows Adjustment and Formatting.

  1. Click Save template.

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An example illustration of the New Report Template tab with All Courses selected.

How to Generate the All Courses Report

  1. Navigate to Reports > Report Generation.

  2. Locate your newly created All Courses report template.

  3. Click Run report.

The Run report button opens a configuration window with two tabs: Groups and Users. You can choose either option to generate the report.

Option

Description

Group (Groups tab)

Select which user group to include or All groups

Users (Users tab)

Select to specific user(s) or All users

Time Zone

Choose the time zone for date calculations

Include archived courses

Toggle to include courses that are no longer active

Include Previous Course Cycles

Toggle to show earlier attempts for the same course

Include archived students

Toggle to include archived users (available only in Groups tab)

  1. Click Create and proceed to the Reports tab, locate your report on the top of the list and click the Download button to export.

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An example illustration of the report generation popup showing all configuration options.

Example Use Cases

  • Complete course history audit: Generate a report for All groups to see every user's progress across all courses. Use this to get a complete picture of training activity across your entire organization.

  • Individual user progress review: Switch to the Users tab, select a specific user, and generate the report to see their complete course history including start dates, viewed dates, passed dates, and certificates.

  • Historical course cycle analysis: Enable Include Previous Course Cycles to see all past attempts for courses that have been reset, giving you a complete historical record of user progress.

Conclusion

You have successfully learned how to generate and customize the All Courses Report. This report provides a complete view of course history across all users and courses, with the flexibility to filter by groups or specific users. By creating custom templates with the fields that matter most, you can efficiently audit training activity and track complete course completion histories.

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