Canvas analytics and assessment data week six fall 2021


This week the number of students in the Instructure Canvas platform dropped by twelve. Canvas does not indicate if those drops are student initiated or instructor initiated. Note that these are students who are no longer active on the Canvas platform, whether they remain in other classes not on the platform cannot be known. This suggests that completion rates are being impacted as early as week six of the term.


Page views became markedly uniform day-to-day in week six, not that this is an explanation for anything. 

General education dashboard

In response to a request for a more focused dashboard, one that looks only at the general education program learning outcomes was produced. This is core feature of the approach being taken by using Canvas + business intelligence software: the college can decide what to display and how to display the data. As new needs or questions arise, the college can responsively produce information to meet that need or help answer those questions. No new modules need to be acquired to gain this capacity, and the dashboards are designed, built, and controlled by the college. Not a third party. Data in real time. Answers in real time. 

Course learning outcomes dashboard fall 2021

The previously developed dashboard seen above shows performance both by campus and systemwide against the institutional learning outcomes. The difference in the number of students between the dashboards is because the general education dashboard is showing the 153 students who have been assessed by the general education program learning outcomes, the course learning outcomes dashboards includes program learning outcomes from other programs and thus has more students.

Running average outcome score systemwide

The way I think of the assessment capabilities inherent in Canvas + BI is "dream it, build it." And, again, faculty are doing no extra additional work to provide this data. They merely marking assignments with rubrics or using quizzes with question banks aligned to course learning outcomes stored in a pre-populated institutional bank of outcomes already available in Canvas. 

Reports:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Plotting polar coordinates in Desmos and a vector addition demonstrator

Image
In an earlier post I noted that Desmos did not directly plot polar coordinates. Not only was I incorrect, but Desmos responded to my blog to correct me! Although I had at some point seen that one could define a function f(x)=3x+5 and then have Desmos calculate f(6), I had not absorbed how this might be used to plot polar coordinates. The above works beautifully . Realizing that I could effectively program Desmos, I applied this thinking to demonstrating how to add two vectors when given the magnitudes m and the direction angles theta. The graph calculates the i and j components for the two vectors and then adds the vectors, graphically displaying the result while also providing information on the magnitude and direction of the vector sum. m1 and theta1 are the magnitude and direction angle for one of the two vectors, m2 and theta2 are the magnitude and direction for the other vector. All four are dynamically interactive and can be changed. The diagram purports to illustra...
Read more

Setting up a boxplot chart in Google Sheets with multiple boxplots on a single chart

Image
The  Google Statistics  add-on for Google Sheets can display multiple boxplots in a single chart. The key is the layout of the data. One column should be the variable by which the data is to be grouped, the other column should be the data to be box plotted. Set up the Statistics add-on with the data to be plotted as the variable, and the grouping column as the "by" variable. In this image I had deselected all but the boxplot option, the result was the appearance of the Moment, Standard errors, and Confidence intervals options. The default is apparently a 95% confidence interval for the mean. The result is multiple boxplots on a single chart with a common scale. The new tab that is created also quotes 95% confidence intervals for the mean. Note that as of 2018 the Google Statistics add-on cannot be found by search in the add-ons. In addition, as of May 2018 the add-on no longer verifies, possibly due to the add-on not having been updated since August 2017. One may ha...
Read more

Traditional food dishes of Micronesia

Image
Clara, Jennette, and Joanie presented ground hard taro cooked in an umw, effectively a hot rock oven. Pohnpeian: rotama. Pingelapese: sero. Mwoakillese: rodma. Mortlockese: Amahd. Kosrae: rodoma. After cooking in an umw the rotama is pounded with the petiole of a palm frond. Rotama is made from hard or swamp taro, known as mwahng on Pohnpei, mweian on Pingalap, pula in Mortlockese, and pahsruhk on Kosrae. In traditional times on the outer islands the women had primary responsibility for tending the taro while the men handled fishing and climbing tasks. Joesen and Noeleen presented fermented breadfruit from the outer islands of Yap such as Woleai and Eauripik. The raw ingredients were actually brought in from Yap, Noeleen prepared the maare.  The leaf wrap is ti leaf - Cordyline fruticosa. Pauleen, Barnson, Trisha, Verginia, Con-ray, and Maylanda from Kitti, Pohnpei brought in mahi umw, koahpnoair koakihr, and uht sukusuk. Above is breadfruit umw, mahi umw, o...
Read more