Canvas analytics and assessment data week one fall 2021

The following are some preliminary week one data from Instructure Canvas analytics and outcomes assessment at the college. This data is only for those faculty and students using Canvas. 

Fall term 2021 saw an expansion in the number of courses, instructors, and students using Canvas. The number of assignments set up by the end of week one fall 2021 exceeded all of the assignments set up for the whole spring 2021 term. 

Term-on-term summer 2021 versus fall 2021 has seen nothing short of an explosive rise in the number of page views. Page views have increased by a factor of 26, that is a 2600% growth in page views.


The numbers above comport well with the plan originally outlined in May 2021. 


Perhaps most exciting for me personally is that assessment data is already available. Only nine course learning outcomes in four courses, but to have any data before the end of the first week of class has come to a close, well I find that stunning. 

The course with no data has data, but the data is being reported as a nominal rating and not as a point value. This is an option that an instructor has - points can be stripped out of a outcome in a rubric, leaving only the rating. The averages above are being calculated from the points, not the ratings, thus the outcome average is null where the points have been stripped out. 


The strength of owning and controlling the assessment data mining and analysis tools is that the college can built tools as necessary to work with the data choices being made by faculty. In the above table the ratings being chosen by the instructor can now be seen. With some extract, transform, and load (ETL) work these ratings can be re-converted to values if so desired.

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