[CIIT College of Arts and Sciences] Edu-Forensics thru Canvas Analytics
What I'm going to talk about is Canvas Analytics. Anyone familiar? Yes. Do you use the Course Analytics? Yeah. So to access that, you just go to your home page. Then, in the course analytics side, just Have that click. And then, it will take you to this course analytics.
And, I usually go to the course reports. Anyone uses this? Nice. Okay. So, in the course reports So, I usually filter So, in using this, I usually filter a one week period. So, I usually set this to, let's say, one weeks, One week of information or data I do one week because for every two weeks correct me if I'm wrong.
Canvas usually deletes the data. Right? That's how long it stays. I mean, that's my initial information. So after that, after I've set it, I'll just choose to do the run report, and then I'll be able to download it in CSV format. Afterwards, this is where this is what I get.
So, this is the raw data. So I just changed the student names. And the subjects. But, this is actually what you will get in raw form. So in raw form, you already have a bit a general picture of what's happening.
But mainly, the data is about the consumption of all the contents that we have talked about earlier. So, for example, the gaming contents from modules to pages to assessments, even the rubrics, all of them are here. Okay? And you can see how students are accessing it or even how they are let's say, the duration of time they spend with your content through this. Now, the filtering side of course happens Right now, it's not in Canvas. I usually do my filtering in Excel or in spreadsheets.
So because there are some redundancies in the information or in the raw data. So I usually remove some names such as the student name. I just prefer to use the sortable name because it's going to be easily arranged for alphabetical arrangement later on. And then, the course name, if you prefer to use course codes You can delete that. And then, this one.
This is the crucial part. This is your time stamps. The timestamps can be separated from data to columns. Just set the separator to two to t. There's a t separator there.
That means time. So, that's the time they start accessing your content and the time they stop accessing it. The date when they done that and the date it also ended. So, from here, I was able to establish when did they access it, how long they access the date, the content. Which is on this part.
Some students access within seconds. Some access by hours. Right? So it will show you. Now, to understand what they access because when you go through your raw file or sorry. Raw data file, you will see there, there are two content types and then, content.
It's simple. When you download the data, you see course assignments, course discussions, in your column pages. These are actually page names. Now, as I have been oriented, Canvas counts each time a student clicks, it counts. So, if it clicks the home So, if the student clicks the home page, that's one count.
So, it will show here home. Like this, course home. But, if the student clicks the discussion on your module, it clicks or goes to the discussion page. It counts that. And it has timestamp for that.
But, if the student clicks a particular content. For example, one of the games choices in the discussions, it will show this. The discussion discussion. That means this is particular. This is unique.
So this is what you don't erase. I checked these things. These are the ones that I usually erase because they are the ones that you can consider the fat of the data. Okay. Next.
So, once you have filtered them, next thing is This is a better practice because this one is on the content column. So, in the content column, it reflects what you have in your Canvas modules or how you label your Canvas contents. For example, in I do the Harold prefix tag. I practiced that. So what I do is here.
Whenever I'm creating any content, I make a prefix tag specific. For example, if this is a video lesson, I label that content video lesson Colon and then, that's the title. If it is a reading lesson, I label it RL, reading lesson. If it is, let's say, a file for download, I label it so. So that when I go start sorry.
So that when I go getting the raw data, I also get this. So this now in Excel. So it will reflect from Canvas to Excel. It will reflect your data. So it is easier to trace.
Easier to clean up. So once I've done that, Now, this is what I have at the end. So, I have the student name. I have the course content type, that they access. And then, I have the content name they have.
And then, these two. The times viewed of obviously, this is how many times they have viewed or accessed the data. But the participation, this is the one that's a bit, let's say, complex. Because participation depends on content type. In assignments, if you see a participation count, that means the number of times the student submitted their assignment.
Because you can control the number of attempts. If you can control the number of attempts, then there will be multiple submission counts in the assignment. But, that's participation. So anything or any reaction to your content, such as replies and announcement, assignment submissions, or even messages via replies, it is counted there in time part in your times of participation. Then, on the end here, this is where I can see how much they have spent time on that particular content that is listed.
So, from here, that information or from the course report, that information can already be accessed, but you really just have to filter it afterwards. Maybe in the future, Canvas can have like a built in filtering system So that we can really see or we can just see it from Canvas itself without go going through another third party, let's say, system. Now, data in its final form. So this is how it looks like. So here's an example.
If I set it to course files, I will see the files that they have access. The number of zeros there. That means the files were just For Download. Because mainly, it's a file being shared to them. Okay? Now If you are going to place links on your contents, that's not advisable Because it will not Canvas will not count links.
Ever they click that or load that, you don't have any idea if they really access the link. Especially, if it is going outside of Canvas, they it will not show. Okay? Next. Now, this is how I've used it so far in evaluating or as part of my evaluation of my students. As you can see here, students with This is the final grade And then, the students total number of views.
Or time spent It's above one thousand. The other one is eight thousand views. So you can actually count how much the student views or how much the section views and then the average is you can relate that. Ganon na katagal venue, ilang basis na lal venue. No? And then grades You can.
No? And then, you can also relate it to your lesson. So, the number of times a student has viewed your lesson or the duration. It has those information so that if you are I mean this is a collective view naman So, how they're viewing Behavior. So, clanning is real because the viewing started on week thirteen, which is the finals week. So, you can already monitor this.
And, It has similarities to YouTube Analytics. Because YouTube also will show you your traffic source, and Canvas is also listed there. So it can authenticate that. In another use or in another case, a student appeals for for example, in my case, a student appeals for a change of grade or correction of grade. So, in an investigation, it was found out that the student did not follow particular Sorry.
Instructions that was included in the videos. And, it was found that the student did not view it. As per the analytics, so that's one forensic side of this. So it was been confirmed. So, teacher win.
Yeah. Anyways, so that's one way of using this. Another is, I was asked for an endorsement with regards to scholarship. So, I have to confirm how the student was performing in class. So, we had this table already of their class performances or their consumption in data.
So, aside from the students grade that was presented, I also looked into the students Data consumption or data usage in Canvas. And it was also consistent that in her class, she is among the top users and top, she has the high numbers in accessing the lessons. So, I've given my Endorsement. And then, not only for students performance, but also It is or it can be done for your content or course content performance. The contents that you place there, especially in all food standardization.
No? If you're going to standardize your contents also, you have to know which contents are really performing well. Which contents are, let's say, not really mostly viewed. But you have to relate it also to your students' performance. This is highly viewed. At the same time, students are having high scores upon viewing this.
So, those things can be related. So it's not just for the students, but also for your content archiving. Similar to the to those that are doing test banks or assessment banks. You can also do your content banks or archiving with this. And exciting part.
You can also use this for your faculty. Tracking your faculty's performance can also be done in Canvas. So you can enroll your faculties as students and then you can track them with regards to coordination or on the part of performance with regards to coordination and communication. Yes. We are or doing that right now.
That there are faculty. This is actually a faculty data, for example. So you can see if they attended meetings, if they have read the video recordings or video meetings that they were not able to attend to, just to have them up to date. Okay. So, that is how I use the Canvas Analytics Course Report. I hope that was informative for you. Thank you.
And, I usually go to the course reports. Anyone uses this? Nice. Okay. So, in the course reports So, I usually filter So, in using this, I usually filter a one week period. So, I usually set this to, let's say, one weeks, One week of information or data I do one week because for every two weeks correct me if I'm wrong.
Canvas usually deletes the data. Right? That's how long it stays. I mean, that's my initial information. So after that, after I've set it, I'll just choose to do the run report, and then I'll be able to download it in CSV format. Afterwards, this is where this is what I get.
So, this is the raw data. So I just changed the student names. And the subjects. But, this is actually what you will get in raw form. So in raw form, you already have a bit a general picture of what's happening.
But mainly, the data is about the consumption of all the contents that we have talked about earlier. So, for example, the gaming contents from modules to pages to assessments, even the rubrics, all of them are here. Okay? And you can see how students are accessing it or even how they are let's say, the duration of time they spend with your content through this. Now, the filtering side of course happens Right now, it's not in Canvas. I usually do my filtering in Excel or in spreadsheets.
So because there are some redundancies in the information or in the raw data. So I usually remove some names such as the student name. I just prefer to use the sortable name because it's going to be easily arranged for alphabetical arrangement later on. And then, the course name, if you prefer to use course codes You can delete that. And then, this one.
This is the crucial part. This is your time stamps. The timestamps can be separated from data to columns. Just set the separator to two to t. There's a t separator there.
That means time. So, that's the time they start accessing your content and the time they stop accessing it. The date when they done that and the date it also ended. So, from here, I was able to establish when did they access it, how long they access the date, the content. Which is on this part.
Some students access within seconds. Some access by hours. Right? So it will show you. Now, to understand what they access because when you go through your raw file or sorry. Raw data file, you will see there, there are two content types and then, content.
It's simple. When you download the data, you see course assignments, course discussions, in your column pages. These are actually page names. Now, as I have been oriented, Canvas counts each time a student clicks, it counts. So, if it clicks the home So, if the student clicks the home page, that's one count.
So, it will show here home. Like this, course home. But, if the student clicks the discussion on your module, it clicks or goes to the discussion page. It counts that. And it has timestamp for that.
But, if the student clicks a particular content. For example, one of the games choices in the discussions, it will show this. The discussion discussion. That means this is particular. This is unique.
So this is what you don't erase. I checked these things. These are the ones that I usually erase because they are the ones that you can consider the fat of the data. Okay. Next.
So, once you have filtered them, next thing is This is a better practice because this one is on the content column. So, in the content column, it reflects what you have in your Canvas modules or how you label your Canvas contents. For example, in I do the Harold prefix tag. I practiced that. So what I do is here.
Whenever I'm creating any content, I make a prefix tag specific. For example, if this is a video lesson, I label that content video lesson Colon and then, that's the title. If it is a reading lesson, I label it RL, reading lesson. If it is, let's say, a file for download, I label it so. So that when I go start sorry.
So that when I go getting the raw data, I also get this. So this now in Excel. So it will reflect from Canvas to Excel. It will reflect your data. So it is easier to trace.
Easier to clean up. So once I've done that, Now, this is what I have at the end. So, I have the student name. I have the course content type, that they access. And then, I have the content name they have.
And then, these two. The times viewed of obviously, this is how many times they have viewed or accessed the data. But the participation, this is the one that's a bit, let's say, complex. Because participation depends on content type. In assignments, if you see a participation count, that means the number of times the student submitted their assignment.
Because you can control the number of attempts. If you can control the number of attempts, then there will be multiple submission counts in the assignment. But, that's participation. So anything or any reaction to your content, such as replies and announcement, assignment submissions, or even messages via replies, it is counted there in time part in your times of participation. Then, on the end here, this is where I can see how much they have spent time on that particular content that is listed.
So, from here, that information or from the course report, that information can already be accessed, but you really just have to filter it afterwards. Maybe in the future, Canvas can have like a built in filtering system So that we can really see or we can just see it from Canvas itself without go going through another third party, let's say, system. Now, data in its final form. So this is how it looks like. So here's an example.
If I set it to course files, I will see the files that they have access. The number of zeros there. That means the files were just For Download. Because mainly, it's a file being shared to them. Okay? Now If you are going to place links on your contents, that's not advisable Because it will not Canvas will not count links.
Ever they click that or load that, you don't have any idea if they really access the link. Especially, if it is going outside of Canvas, they it will not show. Okay? Next. Now, this is how I've used it so far in evaluating or as part of my evaluation of my students. As you can see here, students with This is the final grade And then, the students total number of views.
Or time spent It's above one thousand. The other one is eight thousand views. So you can actually count how much the student views or how much the section views and then the average is you can relate that. Ganon na katagal venue, ilang basis na lal venue. No? And then grades You can.
No? And then, you can also relate it to your lesson. So, the number of times a student has viewed your lesson or the duration. It has those information so that if you are I mean this is a collective view naman So, how they're viewing Behavior. So, clanning is real because the viewing started on week thirteen, which is the finals week. So, you can already monitor this.
And, It has similarities to YouTube Analytics. Because YouTube also will show you your traffic source, and Canvas is also listed there. So it can authenticate that. In another use or in another case, a student appeals for for example, in my case, a student appeals for a change of grade or correction of grade. So, in an investigation, it was found out that the student did not follow particular Sorry.
Instructions that was included in the videos. And, it was found that the student did not view it. As per the analytics, so that's one forensic side of this. So it was been confirmed. So, teacher win.
Yeah. Anyways, so that's one way of using this. Another is, I was asked for an endorsement with regards to scholarship. So, I have to confirm how the student was performing in class. So, we had this table already of their class performances or their consumption in data.
So, aside from the students grade that was presented, I also looked into the students Data consumption or data usage in Canvas. And it was also consistent that in her class, she is among the top users and top, she has the high numbers in accessing the lessons. So, I've given my Endorsement. And then, not only for students performance, but also It is or it can be done for your content or course content performance. The contents that you place there, especially in all food standardization.
No? If you're going to standardize your contents also, you have to know which contents are really performing well. Which contents are, let's say, not really mostly viewed. But you have to relate it also to your students' performance. This is highly viewed. At the same time, students are having high scores upon viewing this.
So, those things can be related. So it's not just for the students, but also for your content archiving. Similar to the to those that are doing test banks or assessment banks. You can also do your content banks or archiving with this. And exciting part.
You can also use this for your faculty. Tracking your faculty's performance can also be done in Canvas. So you can enroll your faculties as students and then you can track them with regards to coordination or on the part of performance with regards to coordination and communication. Yes. We are or doing that right now.
That there are faculty. This is actually a faculty data, for example. So you can see if they attended meetings, if they have read the video recordings or video meetings that they were not able to attend to, just to have them up to date. Okay. So, that is how I use the Canvas Analytics Course Report. I hope that was informative for you. Thank you.