Canvas analytics and assessment data week eleven fall 2021

With week eleven still in progress, engagement on the Instructure Canvas platform as measured by page views appears to be in line with post-midterm levels of engagement. This week also had a Monday holiday, which would be expected to reduce platform engagement.


Engagement on the holiday Monday was the lowest level of engagement seen for a Monday this term.


The pattern of rising engagement from Monday to Thursday has not been seen in any prior week. This new pattern leaves open the possibility that the three day weekend is disruptive of engagement. Faculty talk in a lunch room after a three day weekend sometimes mentions the perceived disruption to student progress in a subject after a holiday weekend, perhaps the page views data is also indicating a slow recovery.


Platform metrics continue to behave in an expected pattern. The number of students has decreased in the run up to the last day to withdraw from a class, and those losses to withdrawals are now showing up in the platform metrics. Assignments, discussions, and recordings all continue to grow slightly.

General education dashboard

There were 178 additional assessments of the general education learning outcomes during week eleven. The number of students assessed increased by four to 169. The average dropped slightly from 3.98 to 3.96. That drop is not likely to be significant.

Two letter course prefix averages on a five point scale

To date there have been 4881 assessments of learning for 248 students. Some instructors remove scores from their rating scales. 226 students were marked on scored rating scales, there were 4081 of these records with an average of 3.44 on a five point scale.

Reports

Week one: assessment available at sunrise on a new term
Week two: SIS disaggregation and a deep dive into mapping decisions
Week three: SIS disaggregation and another dive into mapping complexities
Week four: a focus on subaccounts and campuses
Week five: pivot of state of origin versus gender
Week six: dashboards can be focused
Attendance versus performance in statistics
Week seven: outcome performance at the course level and other dashboards
Week eight: update at midterm
Week nine: a look at score and grade distributions
Week ten: grey goo revisited
Week eleven update

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