Using New Analytics in Canvas

New Analytics is a Canvas tool that allows instructors to track average course grades through interactive charts, graphs or tables for student submissions. It also provides reports like the Course Roster, which can be used to generate lists of students along with their email addresses.

This article covers:

• What do you need to know about New Analytics?
• Using New Analytics
• Generating a Course Roster Report with Email Addresses

What do you need to know about New Analytics?

• New Analytics is automatically enabled in every course. It will appear at the bottom of your course menu, but students will not see that menu item.
• Page views and participation metrics include an aggregate across all devices, including Canvas mobile apps.
• Participation for this purpose includes actions that create artifacts in Canvas. For example, a discussion post, submitting an assignment, starting a quiz, completing a quiz or creating a page.
• New Analytics is only updated every 24 hours, so it does not reflect real-time data.
• New Analytics will not appear on courses without student activity. After the activity begins, it may take up to 40 hours for new data to generate.

Use New Analytics to:

• View average course grade analytics as an interactive chart, graph or a data table.
• Compare the course average with an individual assignment, course section or student filter using the chart graph comparison or data table comparison.
• View average weekly online participation analytics as an interactive chart graph or a data table.
• Compare the course average weekly online participation analytics with an individual student or section using the chart graph comparison or data table comparison.
• Send a message to all students or an individual student based on specific course grade or participation criteria.
• View course grade and participation analytics for an individual student.
• View and download reports on missing, late or excused assignments, class roster and course activity.

Generating a Course Roster Report with Email Addresses

1. Open New Analytics by clicking the New Analytics link in Course Navigation or the New Analytics button in the Course Home Page.
2. Click the "Reports" tab.
3. Click the"Run Report" button to the right of the Class Roster.

4. The report will run and show the number of results. Click "Run Report" again, and you will be prompted to download the file. The file is in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format and can be opened in Microsoft Excel. The Email address is in the last column.

Note: Neither the Student ID nor the SIS ID is the students' official ID. These are Canvas-specific numbers.

For more information about Canvas New Analytics, see What is New Analytics in the Canvas Community.