Create your first basic report

Intended Audience:  Admins and Managers

Summary

Set up and run basic reports about your learners' activity and their training history.

Note

: Safety Made Simple can run basic reports for up to 10,000 rows of data. If your report generates more than 10,000 rows, you can use filters to refine the report. 

Get started

To see the basic reports available for your portal:

1. From the primary navigation, select Reports > + Create report to open the report type menu.
   
2. From Basic
   
    
   Reports, select a report type such as Course Status Report.
   

The following screenshot shows the Create report menu, with Basic Reports highlighted.

Run a basic report: Course Status example

Tip: Downloaded basic reports are more complete and detailed than onscreen displays, with more columns of data. If you're new to reports, download samples of each report to find out what's available.

The Course Status report shows you all the learners enrolled on a specific course.

1. From primary navigation, select Reports > + Create report.
   
    
2. From Basic
   
    
   Reports, select Course Status report.
   
3. Select your course(s) to include in your report.
   
4. Select Run Report.
   

After running the report once you can

• edit the filters to change the results, and select Run Report to repeat the run
  
• select Reset Filters to start over
  
• select Export to CSV or Export to PDF to download a complete report
  
• select Schedule to run the report daily, weekly or monthly.
  

The following screenshot shows the highlights of the course status report, with its available controls.

Safety Made Simple shows the highlights of your basic report on the page.  Details of the course status report include:

• Course name

• Learner name

• Learner email

• Date of enrollment 

• Date started 

• Date finished 

• Score achieved (if any) 

• Enrollment status 


In the report: the Enrolled date is the date a learner is enrolled on a course by an admin, by a manager, or by self-enrollment. The Started date is the date the learner selected the course Start button.

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