# 7. VU Reading Lists Analytics

The Analytics option in the View & Export menu provides you with additional information about how students are using your reading list (Figure 21). Clicking on this option takes you to the VU Reading Lists Analytics dashboard.

Figure 21 The View & Export menu in the VU Reading Lists manager

The Analytics dashboard shows how popular certain items are, and whether the metadata is correct (Figure 22). Next to each item is a coloured bar that indicates how many times an item has been clicked on. Green indicates that a resource is clicked on frequently, while red means it is visited rarely. In such cases, you can try promoting the item’s use by adding a note for students highlighting the benefits of the resource, or by moving it to another place on the list.

Figure 22 The analytics dashboard in VU Reading Lists

You can also see the reading intentions of students as a group, and how many students have added personal notes to that particular item. For privacy reasons, you are not able to see the names of the students who have posted them or the content of these notes.