Faculty Engagement Statistics w/ 3rd Party Integration

[AndrewL1]

Will additional features provide the ability to verify faculty engagement with students to meet regular and substantive interaction requirements established by the updated Fed rule? Specifically, it would be really useful to be able to show that faculty are engaging with students in regular and substantive ways such as rubric feedback, gradebook commentary, posting within a discussion forum (or moderating it via asking following up questions)? Current instructor engagement reports do not accurately reflect the great work most faculty are doing because they simply record whether or not something was input in a gradebook comment (no measure for quality of response, etc.) and they do not account for interactions in third-party software that are fully integrated into Canvas via LTI. The data exists in the system, but we are unable to easily view it or provide snapshots to auditors. This would also help faculty during their evaluation process because they have data supporting their efforts that is easily visible from an admin dashboard. 

[vancej]

Just curious, will the data exist/live in Canvas if the instructor  comments in the 3rd-party system? 

[carlycurran]

Thanks for this idea! Curious how you would measure or report on the substantive part of the requirement? What kind of quality measures would you envision? 

[AndrewL1]

Hi Carly,

Ideally, I would like to know what kind of feedback is being provided, is it individualized to an extent (multiple rubric categories and levels of achievement, not the word for word same exact gradebook comment, etc.), is there interaction happening via an LTI (for example, Harmonize discussions have predictive analytics for student performance built in already), frequency of interactions, if instructors are posting within a discussion board to moderate it, those kinds of things. Harmonize also has an instructor engagement report, though to access it you have to set up an appointment with them. I'd love to talk with you more about this if you'd like. 

Andrew

[AlanManley]

The Harmonize discussion LTI just built an RSI dashboard so that if you use Harmonize for your discussions, you now get an Admin Dashboard that shows you how many comments instructors make each week and what percentage of posts and comments instructors are actually reading.