Do "likes" get recorded at all in the lists of student activity? If so what are they labeled as using the CLI API?

[mikeg]

I am trying to evaluate students based on their 'likes' of different discussion board postings. Canvas's documentation indicated that all of a student's activity with a course site is recorded.  I have figured out how to access student activity using the scripts provided here:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Higher-Ed-Canvas-Users/Obtaining-and-using-Access-Report-data-for...

However, it's not clear to me if or how 'likes' are recorded. Does anyone know?

[paul_fynn · Accepted solution]

I suspect not @mikeg, but you could do some testing. I don't know whether peer reviewing an assignment submission counts either :- see

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/New-Analytics-Users/Analytics-Page-Views-and-Participations/ta-p/...

Participations

Several actions define participation in Canvas and collectively describe events where a user takes an action within a course. We track participations for both students and instructors, and we report participations in Canvas Course Analytics for just student participations.

The following student actions will generate analytics course participation:

• Announcements: posts a new comment to an announcement
• Assignments: submits an assignment
• Collaborations: loads a collaboration to view/edit a document
• Conferences: joins a web conference
• Discussions: posts a new comment to a discussion
• Pages: creates a page
• Quizzes: submits a quiz
• Quizzes: starts taking a quiz

[mikeg]

For the record, it does not appear that likes are recorded in any way in terms of student engagement.

Also, for the record, I don't see how I can do any testing since I am the instructor and "Test, Student" does not appear in the data I download.   Am I missing something?

[paul_fynn]

You've two options

1) ask your Canvas Managers to add test students to allow you to check the behaviour of the system whilst using an incognito browser to log in as a test student (a good thing to have available)

2) add a colleague as a student, put them in a seperate section to allow you to set activities and discussions specific to them without sharing with all students, then do your testing

a third, more preferable, option is to check the behaviour in a Canvas free account (Try Canvas Free-for-Teacher) or a parallel institutuonal account (if your institution has signed up for one)