Admin Analytics - Crosslisted Child Courses

[jdavis12]

Hello, 

Admin Analytics is great! 

One suggestion would be to develop some logic when pulling data to not include a child of a crosslisted course. 

Since the crosslisting process leaves a blank child course shell after crosslisting the analytics looks like it is counting them in some of those reports. 

Adding to the refine filter area some sort of check box or filter to not include courses with no sections or no teachers would probably fix this.  

Just a thought to get a very clean dashboard.

But besides that. Great Tool! Knocked it out of the park. 

Jesse D.

[Chris_Hofer]

Good morning, @jdavis12 ...

Based on what you have posted above, it appears you'd like to make a suggestion for an enhancement to Canvas.  You've posted this in the space within the Community site to ask questions about Canvas.  There is a separate area of the Community called Ideas and Themes where you can make suggestions.  This link is also found under the "Canvas" menu at the top of any page here in the Community.  You'll also want to read the Guides on Ideas and Themes: Community - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com).

I hope this helps a bit!

[christopher_br1]

We had to do this with API data. We wanted to report on unpublished courses, but child courses were inflating those numbers. I had to merge a few reports from the API to extract the cross-linked child courses from the main courses data to get accurate numbers. It can be done without too much effort, so hopefully Instructure does something similar with Analytics.

[carlycurran]

Thank you, @jdavis12 !! 💛 I'm so glad you're liking it! 

This is a great idea, and one that some folks brought up during our closed beta testing. I might have a workaround for you, but let me know if this helps you achieve your goal or not. 

If you want to view Published Courses Without Activity, but cross-listed courses are skewing that data: 

• Filter your data as necessary 
• In the Course Status chart, click on the Published without Activity bar
• In the drill-down table (or in an export of that table), sort the "X-listed to" column. In an export, you could delete those rows.  
• This will at least show you which of those courses don't have activity because they've been cross-listed, but let me know if that's what you're trying to do or not.

Thanks!

[hmcneill]

I understand the workaround above but being able to refine the data using a filter to exclude courses with no sections would make the dashboard more meaningful for colleagues in schools and departments which have to use cross-listing.