[Analytics] Admin Analytics - filter out courses with no students

[mbmacdonald]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

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Problem statement:

In Admin Analytics, it is not possible to completely filter out courses with no students (so that those courses are not included in ANY metrics). It is possible to define "course with activity" based on number of students, but that means that zero student courses are still included the counts of courses without activity and unpublished. This really makes it hard to distinguish what courses *Should* be published but aren't or *should* have activity but don't. Yes, you can filter your exported results later, but it would nice to see this criteria reflected in the dashboards.

Proposed solution:

Add a criteria in the filters options for "# of enrolled students" (or just a checkbox for excluding courses with zero students).

User role(s):

admin

[KristinL]

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment?

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-04-23) 

[KristinL]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-04-23)