Quiz Analytics

What the analytics dashboard actually shows

A lot of “analytics” features in ed-tech tools are a single number on a dashboard card and not much else. SimpleQuizMaker's analytics page is built from your real submission history and shows eight distinct things at once: total quizzes created (if you're a teacher) or taken (if you're a student), your average score across every submission, your total submission count, your average completion time per quiz, a score-distribution histogram broken into five bands (0–20% through 81–100%), a last-7-days activity trend showing submissions per day, a recent-submissions table with quiz name, score, time, and date, and — for students — a suggested focus areas list.

None of it is invented or estimated. It comes directly from record_submission(), the same database function that grades and stores every quiz attempt. Submissions are immutable once recorded, so the dashboard is always showing exactly what happened, not a cached or approximated summary.

Who uses it

• Teachers— see, at a glance, how the quizzes you've created are performing: how many you've built, the average score students are getting, and how submission activity has moved over the last week. Useful for spotting a quiz that's scoring unexpectedly low before you assume the class just didn't study. More for teachers →
• Students — see your own average score, how your recent scores are distributed, and — the most actionable part — a suggested focus areas list that surfaces the quizzes where your average score is lowest, so you know what to review next instead of re-studying everything evenly. More for students →
• Self-learners— if you're quizzing yourself on a topic (a certification, a language, a hobby subject) the 7-day trend and score distribution work the same way a workout log does: a plain record of whether you're actually improving, not just a feeling that you are.

What's on the dashboard

Overview stats

Four numbers up top: quizzes created or taken, average score, total submissions, and average completion time. It's the same four numbers you'd try to reconstruct by hand from a spreadsheet of results — already computed, on one screen, updated the moment a new submission comes in.

Score distribution

A five-band histogram (0–20%, 21–40%, 41–60%, 61–80%, 81–100%) showing how many of your submissions fall into each range. A single average score can hide a lot — a 70% average could mean every quiz landed near 70%, or half your quizzes scored near-perfect and half scored badly. The distribution shows which one it actually is.

Last 7 days activity trend

A day-by-day bar chart of how many quizzes were submitted over the past week. For teachers, it's a fast way to see whether students are actually working through an assigned quiz or whether submissions have stalled. For students, it's a plain check on whether you've actually been practicing or just planning to.

Recent submissions table

Your last submissions, listed with quiz name, score, time spent, and date. No digging through individual quiz pages to find how you did last Tuesday — it's one table, most recent first.

Suggested focus areas

Shown to students: the quizzes where your average score is lowest, ranked so the thing you most need to review is at the top. It's a weak-spot list built from your own results, not a generic study plan — if you've consistently scored well on a topic, it won't show up here even if you haven't touched it recently.

How it works

1. 1. Take or assign quizzes as normal.There's no separate tracking step — every quiz submission on SimpleQuizMaker is recorded automatically.
2. 2. Submissions are graded and stored atomically.A single database function grades the attempt and writes the record in one step, so there's no window where a submission exists but isn't counted yet.
3. 3. Open the analytics dashboard. The overview stats, distribution, 7-day trend, and recent-submissions table are all built from that same submission history, computed fresh each time you load the page.
4. 4. Check suggested focus areas (students). If you have submissions scoring under roughly 70%, they surface here as a ranked list — start your next study session there instead of guessing.
5. 5. Come back after each quiz.The dashboard has no separate data to refresh or sync — it's current the moment you submit a new attempt.

Why tracking scores beats trusting memory

“I think I'm getting better at this” is a hard thing to verify from memory alone — you tend to remember the quiz you aced and forget the three you struggled through. A score-distribution chart and a 7-day trend replace that impression with an actual record. For students, that record is what turns “study more” into “study this specific topic, because it's the one your own scores say is weakest” — which is the same principle behind active recall itself: you learn faster when you're working against real feedback instead of a guess about what you already know.

For teachers, the same data answers a different question: is a quiz doing its job? A quiz where scores cluster at both extremes (a lot of 90%+ and a lot of under 40%, nothing in between) often means the questions are testing something other than what was taught, not that the class is unevenly prepared. That's a pattern you can only see in a distribution chart — a single average score would just show “65%, seems fine.”

Getting the most out of your analytics

Give it more than one quiz

A single submission doesn't make a trend — the 7-day activity chart and score distribution get genuinely useful once you have a handful of quizzes to compare, not after your first one. If you're just getting started, take a few practice quizzes on related topics before drawing conclusions from the dashboard.

Check suggested focus areas before you assume you know your weak spot

It's easy to assume you're weak at whatever felt hardest in the moment, but that's not always what your actual scores say. The focus-areas list is ranked by your real average score per quiz — worth a glance before you plan your next study session around a hunch instead of your own data.

Look at completion time alongside score

A high score paired with an unusually short completion time can mean you know the material cold — or that you rushed and got lucky. The recent-submissions table shows both side by side, which is worth a second look before treating a fast, high score as proof of mastery.

For teachers: watch the trend, not just one quiz

A single low-scoring quiz can be a bad quiz. A downward trend across several quizzes on related topics is a different signal, and the only place you'll actually see that pattern is the 7-day activity and distribution views taken together over time, not any one quiz's result page in isolation.

What analytics doesn't do (yet)

Worth being upfront about the boundaries. The dashboard is per-account — it shows your own quizzes and submissions, not a class roster with every student broken out individually. There's no gradebook export or LMS sync today, and no per-question item analysis (which specific questions students get wrong most often) beyond what a quiz's own results page already shows. If your workflow depends on any of those, plan around that gap rather than assuming it's coming — this page describes what's live today, not a roadmap.

Pricing

Every submission is recorded regardless of plan — nothing is lost if you start on the free plan and upgrade later. The full analytics dashboard itself is part of the Student plan.

Full pricing page →

Frequently asked questions

What does the analytics dashboard actually show?

Total quizzes created (teachers) or taken (students), average score, total submissions, average completion time, a score-distribution histogram, a last-7-days activity trend, a recent-submissions table, and — for students — a suggested focus areas list.

Is quiz analytics free?

The full analytics dashboard is a Student plan feature ($3.99/mo or $39.99/yr). The free plan doesn't include the dashboard, but every submission is still recorded, so the data is already there the moment you upgrade.

Where does the data come from?

Every quiz submission you record. Submissions are written once, atomically, and are immutable after creation — the dashboard reflects exactly what happened.

Can teachers see class-wide or per-student comparisons?

Not today. The dashboard is per-account — teachers see totals and trends across the quizzes they created, students see totals and trends across the quizzes they took. There's no cross-student roster view or gradebook export yet.

What are “suggested focus areas”?

A list, shown to students, of the quizzes where your average score is lowest — a quick way to see what to review next based on your own results.

Does analytics connect to my school's LMS or gradebook?

No. There's no LMS sync or gradebook export today — the dashboard lives inside SimpleQuizMaker only.