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I'm looking to analyze response rates for our instructors using data available through the API but am having trouble given the information that is accessible. For example, I was able to write a simple python code that loops through each of our courses' "Questions/Comments for the Instructor" discussion forums and returns a value which represents how long the instructor took to respond to individual student inquiries. This code was fairly easy to produce given I had access to each forum, post, and reply via the Discussion Topics API. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing the same level of details available in the Conversation API.
I did notice that in the flat files available through the Canvas Data Portal, the "conversation_message_dim" table had a lot of what I would need (e.g. author_id, created_at, etc.). However, the scope of my report is only a fraction of our instance and it would require a lot of manual work to sift through the large amount of data in the flat files.
Has anyone had success in retrieving a log of messages for a given conversation from the API? Is the information provided in the conversation_message_dim flat file accessible through somewhere in the APIs? I'm pretty new to report writing and APIs so there is a good chance I'm missing something here.
I appreciate any help I can get on this and am happy to provide more detail if necessary.
