Analytics glossary

Pluralsight Skills offers analytics web reports and CSV (comma-separated values file) reports to help you track your teams' progress. These analytics reports offer a wealth of information and insights into your team.

In this article you'll find a breakdown of analytics terms to help you get started using analytics for your team.

Important: This article describes features in the new analytics page. If your plan uses legacy analytics, please see Understanding analytics reports instead.

Not sure which version of analytics your plan is using? Please see Phased release of new analytics to learn more.

Scope of available analytics

All users on a team plan can see the same analytics data—relevant to their role.

Retired content

All analytics reports include your learners’ activity in current—as well as retired—content. See Content availability to learn more about retired content.

Glossary of analytics terms


Achieved date

Date the certification was achieved, as reported by the learner. In CSV report: Cert achieved date.

Account name

Customer-facing account name.

Activity timestamp

Timestamp of when the attempt or session occurred (CSV report only).

All certifications

Total number of uploaded certifications.

Attempt date

Timestamp of the attempt.

Attempts

Number of attempts to complete a hands-on lab, practice exam, or Skill IQ.


Best outcome

All-time best outcome of Attempts for a practice exam. Values include pass and fail.

Best rank level

Level of the Best rank percentile. Values include (from low to high) novice, emerging, average, above average, and expert.

Best rank percentile

All-time best Rank percentile achieved by the learner.

Best task completion

All-time best Task completions for a hands-on lab.


Cert achieved date

See Achieved date (CSV report only).

Cert expiration date

See Expiration date (CSV report only).

Cert provider

See Provider (CSV report only).

Cert status

See Certification status (CSV only).

Certification

Name of the certification.

Certification status

The certification's status of recognition by the certifying body. Values include active (meaning a certification currently recognized by the certifying body) or inactive (meaning a historical certification no longer issued or recognized by the certifying body). This status does not relate to the Expiration date of a learner's uploaded certification. In CSV report: Cert status.

Clips

Number of video clips (segments of a course) viewed.

Completed attempts

Number of completed Attempts.

Content ID

Type-specific content identifier (CSV report only). Null for cloud server and prompt sandbox where the API aggregates per learner rather than per playground.

Content title

Display title of the content (CSV report only). Null for cloud server and prompt sandbox.

Course

Name of the course. In CSV report: Course title.

Course completions

Number of courses completed.

Course ID

Stable course identifier (CSV report only).

Course interactions

Number of courses engaged with, equalling one interaction per course.

Course progress

Duration of completed tasks divided by duration of mandatory tasks. For the CSV report, 1.0 = complete; multiply by 100 for percentage.

Course title

Display title of the Course (CSV report only).


Duration

Total expected learning time to complete the course, hands-on lab, practice exam, Skill IQ, task, or video clip. This is the denominator for Course progress. In web report: listed in Hours and Minutes; in CSV report: Estimated duration seconds, listed in Seconds.


Email

Learner's email address.

Estimated duration seconds

See Duration (CSV report only).

Expiration date

Expiration date of the certification, as reported by the learner. In CSV report: Cert expiration date.

Expired certifications

Number of expired uploaded certifications, calculated on the date of the report and the Expiration date.


First name

Learner's first name (CSV report only).


Hands-on labs

Names of hands-on labs engaged with.


Lab mode

Values include challenge and guided (CSV only).

Lab status

Completion status of a lab. Values include complete and incomplete.

Last activity

Timestamp of the learner's most recent activity with the content.

Last attempt

Timestamp of the last attempt.

Last name

Learner's last name (CSV report only).

Last session

Timestamp of last session with the cloud server or sandbox.

Last uploaded

Most recent date the certification was uploaded or updated.

Learner

Name of the learner. Broken down to First name and Last name on CSV reports.

Learners

Number of learners who have uploaded a certification or interacted with a piece of content.

Learning

Name of the content.

Learning time

Actual time spent on hands-on labs, practice exams, Skill IQ, and video clips—capped at content Duration. In web report: listed in Hours and Minutes; in CSV report: Learning time seconds, listed in Seconds.

Learning time seconds

See Learning time (CSV report only).

Learning type

Learning modality (CSV report only). Values include certification, cloud server, hands-on lab, practice exam, prompt sandbox, sandbox, Skill IQ, and video.

License status

Status of Skills license (CSV report only). Values include paid and free.

LLMs used

List of LLMS used. In CSV report: Models used.


Models used

See LLMs used (CSV only).


Num prompts

See Prompts (CSV only).

Num tasks completed

See Tasks completed (CSV only).


Outcome

Result of the attempt of the practice exam or Skill IQ. Values include pass and fail.


Pass rate

Number of learners who passed divided by number of Learners.

Passing score

Minimum score to pass a practice exam. In CSV report: Required passing score.

Plan ID

Pluralsight plan identifier (CSV report only).

Practice exam

Name of practice exam.

Practice time

Time spent in open-ended playground environments, including cloud server and sandboxes. In web report: listed in Hours and Minutes. In CSV report: Practice time seconds, listed in Seconds.

Practice time seconds

See Practice time (CSV only).

Prompts

Number of prompts submitted via the prompt sandbox. In CSV report: Num prompts.

Provider

Certifying body (i.e., provider) of the certification. In CSV report: Cert provider.

PS user ID

Stable Pluralsight user identifier (CSV report only).


Rank level

Level of the Rank percentile. Values include (from low to high) novice, emerging, average, above average, and expert.

Rank percentile

Rank percentile of the attempt score relative to other Pluralsight learners who have taken the same Skill IQ.

Recently uploaded

Number of certifications uploaded in the last 30 days.

Required passing score

See Passing score (CSV only).


Sandbox

Name of the sandbox.

Score

Score achieved during the attempt of the practice exam or Skill IQ. For CSV report, multiply by 100 for percent display.

Servers

Number of servers engaged with.

Sessions

Number of instances of a sandbox being open.

Skill IQ

Name of the Skill IQ.

Status

Status of the attempt. Values for hands-on lab include complete, incomplete, pass, and fail. Values for practice exam, and Skill IQ include complete and incomplete.

Subjects

Subjects covered in the content.


Task

Name of the task that makes up part of the content.

Task completions

Number of tasks completed in a course.

Task status

Status of task completion. Values include complete and incomplete.

Task type

Type of task. Values include hands-on lab, practice exam, Skill IQ, and video.

Tasks completed

Number of tasks completed in a hands-on lab. In CSV report: Num tasks completed.

Team IDs

Semicolon-delimited list of team UUIDs corresponding to Team names (CSV report only).

Team names

Semicolon-delimited list of Teams names (CSV report only). Direct teams only (no parent teams).

Teams

Names of teams the learner is assigned to. In CSV report: Team names.


Unique certifications

Number of unique certifications uploaded. For example, if the same certification was uploaded by three different learners, it would count as one unique certification. This number will always be equal to or less than All certifications.


Valid certifications

Number of non-expired uploaded certifications. Equals All certifications minus Expired certifications.

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