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Every feature and improvement we have shipped, newest first. Jump to a month, or filter by the part of the site you care about.

January 2025 – September 2026 · 14 updates in Analytics

August 2026

A rebuilt dashboard, quiz results you can rely on, and a way to test out of a pre-requisite

See how your learners are getting on

One row per learner across everything you instruct: how far they have got, their quiz attempts, and when they were last active. Searchable, filterable, and sortable.

Analytics View student progress

Quiz performance for instructors

Attempts, attempts per learner, pass rate, and average score across your quizzes. Open any course or module to see the same figures per learner, with their best result.

Analytics Open analytics

How engaged your learners are

Analytics now also shows who has been active in the last thirty days, how many of your units the average learner takes, and how long people take to finish.

Analytics

April 2026

Announcements, community analytics, and a much richer reader

Analytics tab for community managers

A filter bar, a membership growth chart, and a course engagement table, computed for the community you manage.

Analytics

Dashboard analytics default to 30 days

The dashboard opens on a 30-day window, with steadier course selection behind it.

Analytics

January 2026

Faster, more interactive dashboard metrics

Cached user metrics

Unique-user figures are cached, which makes the dashboard quicker and lets its charts respond to interaction.

Analytics

Member activity tracking

Member activity is tracked and surfaced in the dashboard metrics display.

Analytics

December 2025

Workshops, exportable reports, and staff permissions

Export the dashboard

Take dashboard data out as CSV, Excel, or PDF.

Analytics

July – August 2025

Sign in to JupyterHub once, and run a course as a workshop

Dashboard figures you can trust

Recent user activity, activity trends, and top performers report correct numbers, with each unique user counted once.

Analytics

May 2025

Certificates for finishing, and a rebuilt dashboard

Redesigned dashboard

The dashboard was rebuilt around the questions people actually open it to answer.

Analytics

Unique users, charted and filterable

A unique-users graph with its own filter, so a spike can be narrowed down instead of guessed at.

Analytics

Analytics for instructors

Instructors get a detailed view of the activity on their own courses.

Analytics

March 2025

Seeing engagement over time

User engagement over time

The admin dashboard charts engagement across time, so a trend is visible rather than inferred from a single snapshot.

Analytics

February 2025

Talk about the material, right where you are reading it

Charts and tables in the admin dashboard

The first visualizations and data tables arrived in the admin dashboard.

Analytics

This page covers changes you can see and use. Internal refactoring, dependency updates, and documentation-only changes are left out, and a quiet month is a month spent on those. Months with no user-facing changes are not listed.