How can I find out which course pages have been viewed most frequently?

[Alex911]

Hi there, 

I wonder if I can find out which pages within a course have been viewed most frequently. 

Let's say that I have several pages and I am not quite sure whether there is a need to continue offering all of these pages. 

It would really help to know if some pages are clicked more/less often than others. 

Thank you!

[nwilson7]

@Alex911 I am assuming you are a "teacher" role in Canvas.  On the course homepage on the left side is a "New Analytics" button.  If you click this, you get several different analytic options for your course.  The second tab is "Weekly Online Activity" that will show you each resource in your course and how ofter it is being visited.  Below the graph is the list of resources and each column is sortable (although it is not really evident that you can click on them to sort).  You can then sort by page views and see the information you are looking for.

Hope this helps!

-Nick

[Alex911]

Hi Nick @nwilson7 , 

thank you for your feedback. Yes, I am enrolled as a teacher. 

Maybe you can help me out with this: When I take a look at the sidebar I can see a button that says "view course analytics" (not "new analytics"). 

If I click on "view course analytics" I can only see "Activity by Date", "Submissions" and "Grades". 

When I take a look at "Activity by Date" I can see "page views". However, this does not help me too much, because I can not see which page was visited how often. 

Is the "New Analytics" button something you can only use in certain Canvas versions and/or courses?

Thank you!

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@Alex911 Please reach out to your Canvas admin so they can turn this feature on for you.  I honestly thought it had been moved to full production since it has been around for about 2 years but I just checked and it is still a feature option.. We turned it on when it first came out.

It MAY be something that your Canvas admin has enabled but you need to also enable it in your course.  If this is the case, if you go to "Settings" then "Feature Options" is the option "New Course and User Analytics".

Thanks,

Nick

[Alex911]

Hi Nick, 

thank you very much for your support! It was really helpful. I will ask our admin if we can enable this feature, too. 

Best, Alex