Data Available in Canvas through New Analytics

 

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Data Available in Canvas through New Analytics

Created by Scott Aten, March 8, 2021

One nice feature of Canvas that we have not talked a lot about this year is the data available to teachers within the course. Canvas has actually made some updates to this section throughout the school year.  This post will cover some of the types of data you can find using "New Analytics".

New Analytics
The "New Analytics" button can be found on the homepage of any Canvas course in the left menu.  It is called "New" because of the updates they have made to the analytics tool during the school year.

Upon entering the "New Analytics" area, teachers are given the Average Course Grade.  This will give you an idea of the overall grade for the course.

Below this score is a menu of options: Course Grade, Weekly Online Activity, Students, and Reports.  The first three are all able to be filtered by section or viewed as a whole course if your sections are cross-listed.

Course Grade
The Course Grade area allows you to see the average course grade for student submitted assignments.  This graph can be changed from "Display shapes" to a "Data Table" by clicking the three dots in the upper right corner.  By using the "Display shapes" option, teachers can get more information on individual assignments. To access this simply click on the dots themselves.  This screen also provides a quick and easy way to message students about the assignment.  For example, a teacher could contact students whose grade falls below a certain score, are missing the assignment, or are late on the assignment.

Weekly Online Activity
The Weekly Online Activity shows average page views and average participation. There is a graph that can be changed to a table much like the Course Grades could be changed. By clicking on one of the dots in the graph, the teacher can see how specific students viewed pages or participated during a specific time period.  Below the graph/table is a list of all the resources connected with the course.  This information includes overall page views and participation as well.  

Students
The Students area allows teachers to dig into information on specific students.  The initial  screen shows the students grade, percentage of assignments turned in on time, when they last interacted with the course, when they last accessed the course, number of pages they have viewed, and total number of participations.

When a teacher clicks on a specific student's name, additional information becomes available.

Reports
The reports area is newer to Canvas Analytics, and can provide teachers with some good data.  Reports come as a CSV file which basically is a file that will open in a spreadsheet. Teachers will download this file and open it in Excel on a desktop or Google Sheets if it has been saved to Google Drive.  There are several different reports that can be run.

Since the report opens in a spreadsheet program, teachers can filter the data in many different ways to interpret the data.

The best way to understand all that New Analytics can show a teacher is to get in there and click around.  

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K20 LEARN ~ Strategies for the Classrom

K20 Learn ~Strategies

Filterable list of strategies to help with the OIP 5 step process.

Created by Scott Aten, November 21, 2019

During a recent DLT meeting, a teacher in my group expressed some frustration with Step 2
of the OIP Improvement Process. As I am sure you are aware, Step 2 deals with "Research
and Select Evidence-Based Strategies". The frustration came from selecting a "strategy" to
implement as a part of this step.

This summer I attended a session called "High Yield Google" and it focused on instructional
strategies through Google that work alongside "insert your favorite educational theorist here". [link to the session notes in case you are interested]. One of the items discussed was the K20 LEARN website created by the University of Oklahoma. While this amazing tool was not Google based, I feel it may help address some frustration you and your TBT may be feeling during Step 2.

Here is how the K20 LEARN site works:

1. You determine what is the size of the group of students (Small, Whole Class, Individual)
2. You determine how much time do you have to complete the strategy (less than 10 minutes, 10-20 minutes, 20-30 minutes, more than 30 minutes)
3. Select the strategy to see an explanation of how to use it

NOTE - The advanced filter allows you to also filter by placement in the lesson, intention/purpose and grade level.

For example - if I choose "small group" and "Less than 10 minutes" I will see a strategy called "Sticky Bars" is one strategy from 22 available to me.

This strategy quickly assess students' ideas concerning a concept or question and can be used as either formative or summative assessment (but is most appropriate for a formative assessment). Sticky Bars helps students see that there is often a range of opinions concerning a concept.

When I click on the image to the left I am provided with a summary and procedures to use that strategy.

All together their are 121 different strategies that a teacher can examine along with an explanation on how to implement in the classroom.

Hopefully you will find this to be a useful tool during your next TBT meeting when it come time to talk about what strategy to try with you students.

Remember I would love to see any lessons you have created and would like to share with the
district including the implementation of some of strategies from this site. Just let me know
when it is happening. I would love to come see them in action.

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