[ARCHIVED] Engagement/Student Activity Analytics Tools

[training4]

I had posted this on another discussion but am reposting to seek some wider feedback from the community.

I am interested if anyone has recommendations or ideas around monitoring student activity and engagement. 
I'm looking more at plugins, lti or any third-party service that would allow insight into where students visit the most, what they clicked on in that page how many times they visited the same section, subtopic or video within a page for instance. 
The analytics function of canvas is great for an overall view but doesn't drill down to the content within pages or time spent on a particular quiz question (does it?)

My previous institution had Mixpanel, however, I never got to implement it on any of my courses so I cannot say how effective it was.
If anyone has thoughts on ways to monitor and analyse student behavior within the platform, id love to hear from you. 

I am about to roll out canvas for my new institution and am very keen to monitor how students react and engage with the new platform and, most importantly the redesigned method of delivering content.

Joel

[training4]

After posting this I did come across the Access Report add-on - https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-6061-obtaining-and-using-access-report-data-for-an-entire-c... 
I will add this for now (as it is free so, why not) but if anyone has comments on its usefulness/limitations or recommendations for alternatives, please share.

Joel

[tferstle]

Hey Joel,  I’m pretty sure that if students are allowed to create their own pages for assignments, then you can use the History function of the page to closely examine edits/revisions, etc. I used to create a rubric called Engagement to measure the amount of time students took to return to a page to edit/revise/proofread/add multimedia/etc and used those categories to give credit in the larger category of engagement. As you might suspect, my courses are writing courses so the process steps are what I am most interested in evaluating. Your post caused me to look more closely at the Analytics section and I am actually pretty darned impressed by the correlation between page views/submittals/actions that are assessed match up with my impressions of levels of engagement with my students-they even note whether a “link” has been added to discussions that I use!

[rbryant36]

Let us know how the Access Report is working for you.  I am an ID and have been tasked to focus on learning analytics.  Right now, it looks fairly summative.  I'd like to get MOOC-like analytics that provide time-stamps and other metrics to see what is most beneficial to the student and correlative to their grades.