Canvas analytics week 06 fall 2022

Engagement on the Instructure Canvas platform as measured by the average number of page views per day of the week has had the same pattern for four terms: Monday to Thursday see the highest level of engagement, Friday is always down slightly, and Saturday and Sunday are greatly reduced. That Sunday exceeds Saturday may in part be a result of the availability of campus learning resource center computers on Sundays. The chart provides indirect evidence for students who note that assignments due on a weekend are problematic for them. On a weekend families often expect their students their engage in and support family activities. As one father once said to me, "You get my son from Monday to Friday, I get him on the weekend." 


On a logarithmic y-axis, engagement from week four to five remained relatively stable. This chart trails the current week by one week as these reports are done before a week is over.


Canvas analytics displays 1938 students are on the platform in week six.


There are 5605 current scores for 1884 students on the Canvas platform. The difference of 54 appears to be due to students who do not currently have a score in any of their courses. 

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Forty-seven course level student learning outcomes are being evaluated by course learning outcomes from the institutional bank of course learning outcomes. 



Nuro is still not loading Canvas current score data which limits its usefulness to faculty academic advisors. Nuro Retention Index scores do not reflect academic risk based on current performance of the student in their courses. Forward motion on training faculty in the use of this tool remains stalled as the tool is not useful to faculty advisors without the academic performance data of their students. Nuro is tracking 3832 students on the platform. The larger number appears to include students who are not active this term even though the indicator suggests that they are. Green, yellow, and red students add up to 2003, which is just 65 students above the number Canvas Analytics is reporting on the platform. Anecdotally, some of the 1829 gray students are known by this author to not be courses this term. 

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