They announced in the keynote that Canvas Analytics would launch today. In this session, Seth Gurell from Utah Valley State has created a fancy workaround to pull out some Analytics about site visits and quiz questions. The nice part, of course, is the visualization, making the data into a visual representation that is interactive.
One can use the paid version of Wolfram Alpha to upload data from Canvas and create scatter plots and histagrams. He showed a demo and the graphics were almost instantly created.
In the session, I sat next to my colleague Sue Galloway from Centralia College. Sue is in the last portion of her doctorate, so is spending lots of time embedded in data. But we both felt that most faculty wouldn't be able to make productive use of this kind of data. We noted that it would be important to partner with institutional researchers at the colleges to understand how to make use of these graphic visualizations.
In the question portion, someone asked the presenter how he made use of the analytics. Interestingly, he had not gotten around to using them yet.
Snapp - a tool that will analyze discussion board data if you can extract it from Canvas.
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