The meaning of the "showuserstats" setting is not clear enough

[acquaalta]

Hi,
I noticed the setting "showuserstats" that seems to be relatively new.
I'm afraid to enable it, because it's unclear if the statistics that the teacher would see are effected only from the data of the moodleoverflows that he/she have the permissions to manage, or they are affected from such he/she couldn't, but exist anywhere in the Moodle instance/server.

I assume that the answer is the first option, but it would be best to get a clear answer from you, the plugin creators.

Thanks in advance :-)

[NinaHerrmann]

Hey, the answer is kind of mixed. Those statistics could be collected from the multiple overflows, but collecting them would take considerable time. Therefore, I found it questionable to enable it by default. Does that help you?

[acquaalta]

Hi @NinaHerrmann,
Thanks for the answer and please forgive me for my non-fashionable-timed response 😆

I'm not sure I understood the answer:
"Those statistics could be collected from the multiple overflows, but collecting them would take considerable time".

I refer to the following columns in the statistics table, that are available when the "showuserstats" settings is enabled in the plugin settings:
Activity (coursewide)
Reputation (coursewide)

Does the coursewide Activity and Reputation data that the teacher sees in the statistics table, include data from Moodleoverflow instances from courses that the teacher is not part of? If so, it could be problematic since by that it could be regarded by some people as a privacy issue (one teacher knows, implicitly, how one student is doing in other courses that the teacher does not teach) and it can also lead to the teacher being biased regarding students - If the student has a high reputation or low reputation in other courses, it can create a bias in the teacher's mind.

Please let me know if my explanation is not clear enough, or too clear 😃