The Monitoring Activity tab

Monitoring Activity is the activity view of a project, and the page you land on when you open one. It gives you a single picture of how much monitoring has happened, who has been most active, and how each district compares.

A project maps to one region, the level your country calls States or Regions: opening the project is how you work with that region’s monitoring.

The project’s sections

The sidebar always lists the same sections; inside a project ten are active, and the two country-only entries (the regions and the Monthly report) appear greyed out with a hint. The ten:

Section	What it shows
Monitoring Activity	This page, and the one you land on
Metrics	The programme metrics with their targets. See What metrics are
Impact	Results against targets. See The Impact tab
Monitoring data	The answers monitors submitted. See The Monitoring data tab
Assessment data	Pupil results in reports and sample groups. See The Assessment data tab
Forms	The project’s monitoring forms, each with its questions and how much it has been used. Opening one shows its figures and the monitors assigned to it
Training	Training events and numbers. See The Training tab
Team	The monitoring team. See Project Staff
Communication	SMS and WhatsApp groups. See The Communication tab
Districts	The project’s districts, named with your country’s own word, so it reads LGAs in Nigeria

What changes with your role is the buttons: the editing and team-management actions appear for managers, and the setup pages live behind the settings gear (senior managers and administrators).

All Time Monitoring Activity

At the top, the All Time Monitoring Activity heading sits above a row of key figures. These totals cover the whole life of the project and do not change when you switch the period below. If the project uses internal evaluations, a count of those appears here too.

The period selector

The period selector in the header bar picks a term, a school year, All time, or your own start and end dates. Everything below the all time figures reloads for the period you choose.

Check the period before you worry

If the numbers look lower than you expect, check the period selector first. You may be looking at a single term rather than the full history, or at a term that has only just begun.

Period counters

For the period you select, a row of counters shows:

• School visits
• Teacher visits
• Pupil assessments
• Active monitors
• Active districts, under your country’s own label, so it reads Active LGAs in Nigeria

Projects that use internal evaluations get a counter for those here too.

Daily Monitoring Activity

The chart shows monitoring forms submitted each day across the period. It is where the shape of the term becomes visible: a slow start, a gap in the middle, or everything squeezed into the final fortnight.

District Monitoring Activity

This section ranks the project’s districts by how much monitoring each has done, and pairs the table with a map of the region shaded by activity. The map has selectable layers, so it can shade by school visits, teacher visits, internal evaluations, pupil assessments or active monitors, and clicking a district opens its details.

Reading them together is the point. The table tells you the order; the map tells you whether the quiet districts are the far ones, which is usually the real explanation.

Long tables show the top ten with a View all link to the rest, and Show all columns for the measures that did not fit.

Officials and Project Staff activity

Two further tables rank the people doing the monitoring: Officials Monitoring Activity and Project Staff Monitoring Activity. See Project leaderboards for how to read them fairly.

Internal evaluations

Where a project uses internal evaluations, they are counted separately from monitor visits throughout this page: their own counter among the period figures, and their own totals in the all time block.

Keeping them apart is deliberate. A monitor visit is external evidence and an internal evaluation is a school assessing itself, so mixing them would let a project’s monitoring figures be inflated by its own internal work. Seen separately, they answer two different questions: how much monitoring is reaching the schools, and how much quality assurance the schools are doing themselves.

Teacher activity

Projects that run internal evaluations also get a table of the teachers doing them, with their evaluations and pupil assessments. It ranks the teachers most engaged with the programme, which is the closest thing the dashboard has to a view of self-driven practice.

Moving around from here

Everything on this page is a way in. A district opens its own page with its schools; a monitor or official opens their profile with their own visits. From a district you carry on to a school, its teachers, their visits and the assessments taken during them.

The breadcrumbs at the top of every page climb back up the chain.

Next: The Impact tab