Statistics and screen time

Myndr anonymously keeps statistics and screen time on the students' browsing behaviour. This gives the teacher a good idea of how much guidance the class still needs: if a class is doing well, the teacher can loosen the reins a little. With statistics and screen time it is easy to check whether that trust was justified. This makes the Myndr Switch an active teaching aid and media literacy tool.

How exactly does it work?

It is actually very simple. There are 2 ways to get to the statistics/screen time.

If you use Myndr via Basispoort, go to 'Groups' in the left-hand menu of the dashboard.

Each group is a row with a number of buttons. The text under the buttons clearly shows what they are for. Click 'Screen time' or 'Statistics' here to view them.

If you use Myndr without Basispoort, click 'Switches' in the left-hand menu.

You will then see the switch for your class in a tile. At the bottom are the buttons you are looking for, again with a clear label.

Statistics

On the statistics page you will see a clear chart. It shows the number of times a certain type of website was visited in the selected period. At the top is the time period/date of the measurement (arrow 1). Then, for each row, first the category (arrow 2), then a bar with the number of times students tried to visit websites in this category (arrow 3). Bars to the left are blocked websites, bars to the right are websites that were allowed through. So in this example, on 11 May 57 adverts were blocked, 16 educational resources were successfully accessed and games were played 9 times. Below that you will see "show more.." (arrow 4). If you click this, you will see other categories as well. These are categories that we consider less important.

Warnings for adult, phishing or vpn

It can happen that a student tries to reach a harmful website. No need to worry: Myndr keeps lists of all known websites in this area and these are automatically extended all the time.
How you deal with this as a teacher is of course best judged by you. Since Myndr keeps statistics anonymously, we recommend having a conversation in class. Use it as an opportunity to talk about media literacy!

Screen time

Screen time is a bit more extensive. Again you see the time slot (arrow 1), with directly below it the number of students who were active in that period (arrow 2). Below that you see the so-called task focus - more on that in a moment (arrow 3), the distribution of screen time across the different categories (arrow 4), the average screen time across the students (arrow 5) and the maximum screen time (arrow 6). Since there is only 1 student in this example, you can see that the average and the maximum are the same. Normally the average is of course below the maximum.

Under "Task focus" you will see a "Details" button. If you click this, you will see a more detailed chart showing the information per device or student and how the number is made up. Task focus says something about how concentrated the students were while working. It is a calculation based on screen time: which categories and for how long, combined with distraction from other tabs and their categories and background audio. Educational categories count positively and typically distracting categories count negatively. Background audio can be video (secretly watching videos), which counts quite heavily, or audio only - the student has some music on - which counts as less distracting.

Under "Screen time distribution" there is also a "Details" button. If you click this, you will see the screen time per student/device with their categories.

If you hover your mouse over the bars, you will get more information.

Setting the time period

For both statistics and screen time, there is a time slot navigation in the top right (arrow 1). It has a previous/next button and in between it shows the period that is selected. How far these buttons jump forwards/backwards depends on the period indicator on the right (arrow 2). This can be day, week, month or custom. If you change this, the start and end dates automatically jump to a logical point. For week this is the start to the end of that week, for month the start to the end of that month. Good to know: the blocks in the charts on the page have a logical division for the chosen period. So in day view you see blocks of an hour, in week view blocks of a day and in month view blocks of a week.

Setting your own time period

If you choose "Custom", you can click the date (arrow 1 in the previous image). You will then see a date picker. Enter the period yourself here. The easiest way is to click the start field first and then the end field.
Here too, the system chooses a logical division of the blocks, depending on whether the chosen period is close to a day, week or month. If you choose a very long period, the system may become slow. We therefore advise against this.

Updated on: 03/11/2026