More than Grades in Canvas!

Canvas offers excellent reports to analyze student activity and student performance in any course. Two of these are outlined below. You'll discover other ways to get to these reports; this post shows you one path to get to both.

1. Click into any of your Canvas courses.
2. Select Settings from the Course Navigation.
3. Choose Course Statistics from the menu on the right. This tabbed view provides aggregate information about the course. 
4. Select the Students tab and select a student by clicking their name. 
5. The menu on the right provides access to two excellent reports which are outlined below.

Student Interactions Report

The Interactions Report lists the student's name [1], the last time you interacted with them [2], the student's current grade (reflects all work graded to date) [3], the final grade for the student (assumes any ungraded work is a score of zero) [4], and if there are any submitted but ungraded assignments for the student [5]. Send a message to the student by clicking the message icon [6]. Sort any column by clicking the arrows at the top [7].

Access Report

The access report shows a summary of a student’s participation in a course. The report can show:

• The content the user has viewed.
• The number of times the user viewed the content. A view is counted each time a user navigates to the URL where the content resides or downloads an attachment.
• The number of times the user participated (if applicable, such as posting to a discussion or submitting an assignment).
• The last time the user viewed the content.

Currently this report does not show mobile app activity.

The student learning analytics continue to improve in Canvas. If you have questions about how to find out more about your students' work in the LMS feel free to contact the CET!