Misleading details in student Access Reports

[pattene]

I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum.

I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as though the student clicked on (accessed) it? It clutters the report and is misleading. For example,  IMG_0920.PNG is not something a student clicked on. It is, however, an embedded image on a Canvas page in the course. 

Thanks!

[chriscas]

Hi @pattene,

While I don't work for Instructure and have no idea what they may have planned for the future, I don't know that this would rank very high or even get majority agreement on.  As an admin, it's actually helpful to have logs and access reports showing everything that a student accessed, but there's a very low likelihood of missing data with this methodology.  While you may not want to see embedded content in the report, other teachers and admins may feel very differently, especially based on how they design their course.  Embeds are sometimes the only way something like an image is available in a course, so if those views weren't included it could appear students missed material when they did not.

Just me quick two cents here for consideration.  I'm sure others would totally agree with you, but I honestly can't envision how to make this feature work for every different desire without creating a technical nightmare.

-Chris

[dbrace]

I understand this from both sides, the list can get quite long and be overkill.

It will be interesting to see how helpful having everything listed will be now that Canvas uses pagination when displaying access reports.

-Doug