Overview
Provides a summary of engagement activity by asset. This report offers a pivoted, asset-level summary view of the Engagement Detail Report, allowing publishers, institutions and internal teams to see cumulative engagement (page views, prints, notes, highlights, bookmarks and sessions) for each asset over a selected date range.
Key Questions This Report Answers
How is a specific asset (title or course) being engaged with within Bookshelf over a given period?
Which assets are seeing the most or least engagement and through which platform or device?
How much reading, note-taking, highlighting and printing activity is associated with a given asset?
How to Use This Report
Step-by-step guidance for getting value from this report.
Start with the filters – Select a date range to scope your results. The default is ‘Last 7 Days.’ Use Asset Item ID or Asset Item Name to narrow down to specific titles, or Publisher, Distributor, Course Name, Device or Platform to narrow down further.
Interpret the results – Each row represents an asset with cumulative engagement metrics broken down by platform (Online, Desktop – Mac, Desktop – PC, Mobile – iOS, Mobile – Android).
Take action – Use this data to identify high- or low-engagement titles, understand which platforms or devices drive the most usage and inform title-level engagement strategies.
| 💡 Tip: You can paste up to 16,000 Asset Item IDs (ISBNs or VBIDs) at once by copying a column from a spreadsheet – values separated by semicolons are not supported. |
Filters
Filter Name |
Description |
Required? |
Default Value |
Example Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Date Range |
Date range for when engagement took place |
No |
Last Seven Days |
Last 30 Days; specific date range |
Asset Item ID |
Unique identifier for the item, typically an ISBN or VBID |
No |
None specified |
Supports multi-search up to 16,000 values |
Asset Item Name |
Name of the content accessed |
No |
None specified |
N/A |
Publisher |
Name of the publisher related to the distributed content |
No |
None specified |
Filter to a specific publisher |
Distributor (Parent) |
Name of the parent company associated with the company that distributed the content |
No |
None specified |
Filter according to a specific parent distributor |
Distributor |
Name of the company that distributed the content |
No |
None specified |
Filter according to a specific distributor |
Course Name |
Name of the course the engagement is associated with (if available) |
No |
None specified |
N/A |
Device |
Format of the device used to access the content |
No |
None specified |
Desktop, Mobile |
Platform |
Online platform used to access the content |
No |
None specified |
Online, iOS, Android |
| ℹ️ The access filter automatically limits results to only the products the viewing company distributed, and will only display available values. |
| 📄 This report includes engagement events for the current year to date plus the previous two full calendar years. Engagement metrics reflect activity within the filtered date range unless otherwise noted, and are cumulative (not unique) counts – e.g. a user viewing the same 10 pages five times counts as 50 page views. Engagement events are captured only within Bookshelf; publisher courseware activity outside Bookshelf is not included. |
Fields & Metrics
Field Name |
Description |
Data Type |
Example Value |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asset Item Name |
Name of the content accessed |
text |
Sample Title |
||
Asset Item ID |
Unique identifier for the item, typically an ISBN or VBID. Derived from Asset ISBN-13, else eISBN, else VBID. |
text |
978-0-00-000000-0 |
||
Related Print ISBN |
Related print ISBN of the item |
text |
978-0-00-000000-0 |
||
Item Format |
Format of the engaged item |
text |
eBook |
||
Author(s) |
Author name(s) of the content |
text |
Sample Author |
||
Publisher |
Name of the publisher related to the distributed content (Manage company name) |
text |
Sample Publisher Co. |
||
Imprint |
Publisher's imprint for the item |
text |
Sample Imprint |
||
User Activity Count (Unique) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset |
Number |
1,204 |
||
User Activity Count (Online) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset through Bookshelf Online |
Number |
512 |
||
User Activity Count (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
140 |
||
User Activity Count (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
230 |
||
User Activity Count (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
180 |
||
User Activity Count (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of unique users who engaged with the asset from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
142 |
||
Sessions (Overall) |
Total number of unique sessions
|
Number |
1,850 |
||
Sessions (Online) |
Total number of unique sessions from Bookshelf Online |
Number |
780 |
||
Sessions (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of unique sessions from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
210 |
||
Sessions (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of unique sessions from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
340 |
||
Sessions (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of unique sessions from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
260 |
||
Sessions (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of unique sessions from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
198 |
||
Page Views (Overall) |
Total number of pages viewed |
Number |
12,540 |
||
Page Views (Online) |
Total number of pages viewed on Bookshelf Online |
Number |
5,120 |
||
Page Views (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of pages viewed from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
1,340 |
||
Page Views (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of pages viewed from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
2,760 |
||
Page Views (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of pages viewed from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
1,980 |
||
Page Views (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of pages viewed from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
1,340 |
||
Pages Printed (Overall) |
Total count of pages printed |
Number |
340 |
||
Pages Printed (Online) |
Total count of pages printed from Bookshelf Online |
Number |
120 |
||
Pages Printed (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of pages printed from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
60 |
||
Pages Printed (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of pages printed from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
90 |
||
Pages Printed (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of pages printed from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
40 |
||
Pages Printed (Mobile - Android) |
Total count of pages printed from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
30 |
||
Notes (Overall) |
Total number of notes created |
Number |
58 |
||
Notes (Online) |
Total number of notes created from within Bookshelf Online |
Number |
22 |
||
Notes (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of notes created from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
10 |
||
Notes (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of notes created from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
14 |
||
Notes (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of notes created from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
7 |
||
Notes (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of notes created from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
5 |
||
Highlights (Overall) |
Total number of highlights created |
Number |
112 |
||
Highlights (Online) |
Total number of highlights created from within Bookshelf Online |
Number |
48 |
||
Highlights (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of highlights created from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
20 |
||
Highlights (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of highlights created from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
26 |
||
Highlights (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of highlights created from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
11 |
||
Highlights (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of highlights created from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
7 |
||
Bookmarks (Overall) |
Total number of bookmarks created |
Number |
24 |
||
Bookmarks (Online) |
Total number of bookmarks created from within Bookshelf Online |
Number |
10 |
||
Bookmarks (Desktop - Mac) |
Total number of bookmarks created from a Mac Desktop App |
Number |
5 |
||
Bookmarks (Desktop - PC) |
Total number of bookmarks created from a PC Desktop App |
Number |
6 |
||
Bookmarks (Mobile - iOS) |
Total number of bookmarks created from an iOS Mobile App |
Number |
2 |
||
Bookmarks (Mobile - Android) |
Total number of bookmarks created from an Android Mobile App |
Number |
1 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why doesn't the sum of the per-platform session counts equal Sessions (Overall)?
A: Users often engage across multiple devices within the same session window. Sessions (Overall) counts a session once even if it spanned multiple platforms, so summing the per-platform session counts can exceed Sessions (Overall).
Q: Are Page Views, Prints, Notes, etc. unique or cumulative counts?
A: These are cumulative counts of every occurrence, not de-duplicated. For example, a user viewing the same 10 pages five times shows as 50 page views.
Q: How far back does this report show data?
A: This report includes engagement events for the current year to date, plus the previous two full calendar years (e.g, if today is 2 December 2026, all 2026 events up to that date, plus all of 2025 and 2024).
Q: Why don't my numbers match another engagement report?
A: Confirm that both reports use the same filters (date range, publisher, distributor, etc.) and the same counting logic (unique vs. cumulative) before comparing totals – differences in either will cause totals to diverge.