Does Canvas Data record links on a page?

[travis_cox]

I'm pondering whether it is possible to measure progress through a course based on the total number of links and pages that a student has viewed, out of the total possible pages and links available. 

I have a (hopefully) fairly simple question for someone with more data familiarity than me...

If an instructor adds a link to a module, Canvas Data would record the number of views of that link by each student.

Is any data recorded about students viewing a link when an instructor creates a page in a module, where that page contains the hyperlink (so it's just content on the page rather than being a separate item)?

Thanks in advance!

[travis_cox]

*crickets*

Deactivated user‌ - do you or any of your data-lovin' Instructure colleagues know the answer? Thanks!

[a1222252]

Hi Sydney,

I haven't had a chance to look at modules data yet, but from the doco I'd be guessing this will provide details of progress through a course.

Regards,

Stuart.

[smccann]

Hi Travis!

So when it comes to determining if a user clicked on a link that is part of a wiki_page, this is something that we cannot monitor, and report on, through the requests table. Since the link goes out of the scope of Canvas itself, this is something that would require a lot of time and money to be able to track every click that happens in Canvas everywhere. This would include reporting all clicks randomly made by a user if they click to scroll for example.

We would be able to tell you if the user clicked on the link if you made that link itself an item in the module and separated away from the page. From there we can record that module item X was clicked this many times.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

[travis_cox]

Thanks Deactivated user‌! It's helpful to confirm that it's not possible to track clicked links when they are part of the HTML of the page, only when they are discrete links added to a module. That's what I was suspecting to be the case.