Can Canvas handle spreadsheet data?

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aps
Community Novice
‎01-20-2020 02:04 AM

Hi

I was wondering. We are working with improvement projects and are using Canvas now, but we don't have a good platform to work with spreadsheet data yet. So we would like to know whether Canvas has the possibility of uploading spreadsheet data (fx generated in Excel) and doing statistical analyses, specifically Statistical Proces Control (SPC) - runcharts and control charts?

Thanking you in advance!

Best Arjen Stoop

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James
Community Champion
‎01-20-2020 08:02 AM

 @aps ,

Canvas is not the solution you are looking for.

Canvas is a learning management system. It has some statistical analysis related to activity within the system -- mostly related to student analytics or performance on quizzes.

Canvas is not statistics software and has no statistical capability to analyze that was not generated within Canvas. There is no import functionality for numeric data because Canvas is not that type of software. You can upload Excel workbooks to Canvas, the most it will do is display the contents as a PDF or allow people to download the file. It does not understand any of the formulas that are entered into Excel and can do no analysis with what is inside the Excel file.

There are many statistics programs out there that do statistical analysis. The ones I frequently hear about (not intended to be a complete list) are R, SPSS, SAS, Minitab, and Stata. Of those, R is open source. An internet search will turn up other options.

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