A logging mechanism for acquisition of real data from different collaborative systems for analytical purposes

This paper presents design, implementation and experimental verification of logging mechanism for collaborative systems that contains separate database for storing the logs of events from the system, communication services between database and examined system and some simple analytical services to provide basic summarized information about saved data. The proposed approach was tested within four selected collaborative systems, namely KP-Lab System, Claroline, Moodle and Dokeos. The main motivation behind described solution is to obtain real data for different analytical purposes.