Monitoring Student Activity and Engagement in Canvas

[erik_gustafson]

My university has begun to be required to demonstrate that we are able to monitor students' activity within Canvas. We have to monitor their academic engagement and success within the LMS and the amount of time that the student participates in an activity in Canvas. 

I have been through the Community, and I do not see that anyone has looked into the capability of Canvas to monitor a student. Does anyone know if this is possible? Is there a custom project someone has developed or is working on? Can we use Canvas Data for this? 

I am familiar with the API and some programming to generate reports, but I need to be pointed in the right direction first.

[paul14]

Hi Erik, I know this is from a very long time ago. Did you manage to solve this? we are currently building a tool that may address this.

If you solved it let me know how you went!

Feel free to message me.

[erik_gustafson]

Hi Paul,

No, we never were able to solve this. I would be interested to see the tool you are developing for this. 

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Erik

[paul14]

Thanks Erik. I just got your DM and will discuss there as we are still in development. But I am very keen to hear your ideas and what data points would help you measure your students' engagement.

[rlawyer]

I, too, am interested in learning about your development. Thank you.

[Elkana]

Hi @paul14 , I am also interested in this new development you are working on. Please let me know. Thanks 

[paul14]

Thank you for your interest @Elkana and @rlawyer 

I'd be keen to learn what data is important to you that tells you whether or not your student is engaged or disengaged in their learning.

[Elkana]

@paul14 thank you for your reply. 

I would like to know how long a student spends on each topic/page/quiz. Is he engaging by asking questions to teachers or the TA? It would be good also to monitor grades across subjects in one place. Currently, I need to click on each course to see an overview of how the student is doing in multiple courses. Thank you again.