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The Alternate Formats report displays all the individual files which have been converted into alternative file formats for the course. The number of generated alternate formats for a file is the numbered of different requested formats with different settings, such as speed, language, font size.

This Alternate Formats reports table data can be usually downloaded as the following, however this is dependent on your Moodle site's admin settings for which download options are enabled:

  • Comma separated values (.csv)
  • Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
  • HTML table
  • Javascript Object Notation (.json)
  • OpenDocument (.ods)
  • Portable Document Format (.pdf)

Viewing the Alternate Formats report

The Alternate Formats report can be accessed via:

  • Course's Actions menu (Boost theme) > More > Reports > File Conversions > Alternate Formats
  • Course administration block (Classic theme) > Reports > File Conversions > Alternate Formats
The BFAltformat Alternate Formats report

The Alternate Formats report displays the following details for each conversion:

  • Filename: the file's name before conversion.
  • Licence: the licence type.
  • Conversion types - the number of conversions per:
    • Text.
    • Audio.
    • Ebook.
    • Braille.
    • Daisy.
  • Downloads: the total number of downloads

Filtering the Alternate Formats report

The BFAltformat Alternate Format report filters

This Alternate Formats reports table data is filterable by the following:

  • Categories: either all categories to which the user has access or else a selection of categories to which the user has access.
  • Courses: either all courses to which the user has access or else a selection of courses to which the user has access.
  • Roles: (teacher, student, etc).
  • Date from: data from this date onwards.
  • Date to: data up until this date.

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