'Time On Task' Reports – Reading Progress and Reading History
Educators can run reports to monitor students' reading progress and collect data about students and their eBook reading experience.
- The Reading Progress report provides specific data on reading time, pages and number of eBooks read, number of annotations used and more.
- The Reading History report provides more general data on the number of eBooks and pages read, number of annotations used and more.
Important: The data reported on the Reading Progress and Reading History reports is updated nightly.
- From Destiny Discover™, select
 > Reading Path Setup.
- Click the Get Progress Reports link.
- In the Time On Task section, click the name of the report you want to run.
- In the From and To fields, enter the dates you want to run the report for. Leaving the fields blank will run the report for all dates.
- Use the Patron Type drop-down to select the patron type you want to collect the data for. The default patron type is All.
- To limit the report to an alphabetical range of patrons, enter last names in the From and To fields. Entering the same last name in both fields limits the report to that name for the selected patron type. Leaving both fields blank runs the report for all patrons of the selected patron type.
- Click Run Report.
- In the Job Manager, click
 to update the status of the report.
- Once the status changes to Completed, click the Action drop-down, and then click View. The report downloads to your computer in XLS format.
- Open the downloaded file to view the report. You can save the report locally to access it anytime.
Which Report Do I Need?
| Fourth grader John Davis recently accessed several higher reading level eBooks, according to the Reading History report his teacher ran. However, he still seems to struggle with reading grade-level appropriate passages. His teacher, Mr. Greggs, is curious how much John actually read of the eBooks he accessed.
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Mr. Greggs ran the Reading Progress report, limited to and from the last name 'Davis.' As you can see in the screenshot above, John Davis accessed several higher reading level eBooks. As noted in the Reading Time and "Number of Pages Read" columns, John neither spent much time reading the eBooks nor read many pages. Mr. Greggs now has the data to confirm that John is accessing but not reading the high reading level eBooks and can tailor his instruction accordingly.
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| Three weeks ago, Mrs. Coltrane tasked her students with reading the first 17 chapters of an eBook. After each chapter, they were to take summary notes in their Notebooks. The assignment was due yesterday, and she wants to confirm the students successfully read the eBooks and created the notes.
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Mrs. Coltrane ran the Reading Progress report, limited to the assignment start and due dates. As you can see in the screenshot above, the three students each read the first 17 chapters of the eBook and created 17 notes. From this data, Mrs. Coltrane easily confirmed that the students successfully completed the assignment.
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| William Stevens is a bright fifth grader. He tells his teacher that all the eBooks are super easy to read and boring. His teacher, Mrs. Greene, wants to verify William's current reading level so she can recommend some titles that will challenge and engage him.
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Mrs. Greene ran the Reading Progress report, limited to and from the last name 'Stevens.' As you can see in the screenshot above, William read three eBooks about China and other cultures. Each eBook is at the sixth and seventh grade reading level. With this data, Mrs. Greene is now able to effectively recommend new titles for William to investigate and read.
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| Mr. Bell, a high school librarian, ran a school-wide reading contest for the month of April in honor of National Library week. Mr. Bell challenged interested students to read a minimum of four eBooks at or above grade level. Now that the contest is over, Mr. Bell wants to confirm which students succeeded in reading four or more grade-level eBooks.
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Mr. Bell ran the Reading History report, limited the dates to the month of April and the patron type to High School Student. As you can see in the screenshot above, the first four students met the requirements of the challenge by reading at least four titles at or above grade level. The fifth student only read three titles, so she did not meet the contest requirements. With this data, Mr. Bell now has an accurate list of the students who followed the contest rules and are eligible for the prize.
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