Waterford Early Learning: Understanding the Usage Report as a Teacher or Administrator
What Is The Usage Report For?
The Usage Report will help you get an idea of how much time students, classes, or schools are putting into the Waterford Program. If you want to determine whether students are meeting their program goals due to the time they spend in the program, this is the report to consult for that information.
Generating a Usage Report
To select and view a Usage Report in Waterford Early Learning:
- Log in to Waterford Early Learning and click on the Reports tab.
- Choose District, Schools, or Classes under view.
- Choose the Curriculum that you would like to view the report for (Early Reading, Early Math & Science, or SmartStart).
- Select the grade level, district, school, or class, and date that you would like to view within the report.
- Scroll to Usage Report from the list of reports and select Open.
The report will now load in the same window for your viewing.
Reading a Usage Report
Teachers or administrators can run the Usage report to display students’ overall usage in Waterford Early Learning. This report is beneficial for ensuring that monthly usage goals in the program are being met.
Usage reports contain the following information:
- Total Students: number of students currently rostered to the district, school, or class with usage registered in the selected curriculum
- Average Usage Minutes: total usage minutes for all students at the school or district divided by the number of students at the school (unavailable in class report)
- Total Usage Minutes: accumulated time that has been spent in the program by the students at the school.
- Average Minutes Per Month: total usage registered for all students at the school in a given month, divided by the number of students at the school (unavailable in class report)
Administrators can generate this report at the district, school, and class levels, providing a detailed breakdown of student usage. Teachers, however, cannot generate this report at the district level.
Educators viewing the report at a school or district level will see the usage data broken down by both average and total usage. On the class level, educators will see the usage data broken down by total usage only.
Administrators can click a school name within the district report to automatically generate the usage report for a specific school. Below are examples of district, school, and class level reports.
Example of District Level Report:
Example of School Level Report:
Example of Class Level Report:
What Happens If I Run Into A Problem With The Usage Report?
Scenario | Meaning | Solution |
The students are working on the lessons you assigned them, but their usage is not being recorded. | If students are working on custom assignments, then usage will not be recorded as Usage Reports only record activity from the program proper. | Either continue assigning curriculum as needed and know that their usage will not be represented or see if the Usage Report starts properly recording after the student starts working on the program proper instead of customized assignments. |
The whole class goes to work on the Waterford program at once, but you see on the Usage report that one present child’s usage doesn’t seem to be recorded. | This could be a login issue or the child could be exiting the program too early to have their usage recorded. | Make sure that the child is consistently logging into the correct account so their time isn’t counting toward another student’s usage. Additionally, make sure the student is staying in the program as a session that’s less than 30 seconds long will not be recorded. |
Last Updated: 05/29/25
