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Context

The use of learning analytics provides opportunities for understanding and improving student learning (Rehrey, Shepard, Hostetter, Reynolds, & Groth, 2019). The built-in Canvas Analytics can help faculty determine if students are participating in various Canvas tasks, such as announcements, assignments, discussions, and quizzes. With this information, we can determine if students are participating with course materials as intended.

Step-by-Step Implementation

1. Analytics are available the moment students begin interacting with your course. You can see up-to-date statistics by going to your course homepage and selecting “View Course Analytics” from the menu on the right hand side. If you cannot view analytics, your institution may have restricted this feature (not true for Indiana University). 
2. Once you click on “View Course Analytics,” you will see several graphs with information including: Activity by Date, Submissions, and Grades with students names below which also includes counts for Page Views, Participations, Submissions, On Time, Late, Missing, and Current Score as a percentage.  
3. By clicking on any individual student, you can get information relating to only that student. These points of information include Activity by Date, Communication, Submissions, and Grades. 
4. Activity by Date shows Page Views and Participation by date. Communications displays Student and Instructors communications by date. 
5. Submissions display student submissions and flags if they are On Time, Late, Missing, or Future submissions. 
6. Grades displays Points earned by date and also displays Total Range, 25th-75th Percentile, Median, Good Score, Fair Score, and Poor Score on a graph. 
7. As you can see from the graphs above, Course Analytics are useful in helping faculty determine how the entire course, as well as individual students are performing in the course. While many of these data can be determined from individual tools, the Course Analytics provides a quick, one stop area to see all relevant information regarding how students are doing in your course.