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Page view vs Participation

ShellieBrattain
Community Member

Canvas has this definition (see below) for page views vs participation.  I'm trying to figure out how to determine this within the Canvas Data 2 data set?  What tables and filters are needed to determine this?


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from Canvas (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-New-Analytics/ta-p/73)

What are Page Views and Participations?

A "page view" is when you open a page in a course. Page views can indicate how a user has been accessing course resources. However, because page view data is based on requests to the server, use page view data only as a good approximation to activity and not an absolute metric. Page view data is most valuable for understanding whether activity occurred, and to make comparisons across students within a course or when viewing trends week to week.

Several actions define "participation" in Canvas and collectively describe events where a user takes an action within a course. The following student actions 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
  • New Quizzes: submits a new quiz
  • Pages: creates a page
  • Quizzes: submits a quiz
  • Quizzes: starts taking a quiz
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