Total Time Spent on Page

[JessicaDeanSVC]

Are my faculty and I experiencing a Mandela effect? They are swearing that there used to be the ability to see a breakdown of how long students spent on different pages in the course. I remember it too because as recently as a few weeks ago I had to speak with an instructor to not rely on that information for providing an attendance grade since it doesn't log time correctly for folks using the mobile app. But now, I cannot find any such information in New Analytics or elsewhere. 

Does anybody else remember this feature? Do you still have it?

[TrishaMeyer1]

Hi @JessicaDeanSVC ,

You can see which pages a student visited by going to the student's account and then selecting User Account Details on the right side. I think this information used to display on the front screen of a student account because I remember seeing it before, and I don't remember ever using that menu option. A list of student "touches" will display, but it doesn't break down how long the student was on a page, only the time s/he landed on a page. Is that what you're thinking of?

[JessicaDeanSVC]

Sadly no, not what I am thinking of. We are able to see which pages a student visited and how many times, but I swear we used to see time spent on each page. Maybe the end of the year is just making me batty!

[ElizabethGiles1]

Me too.  I'm sure you could see this.

[ColtonSwapp · Accepted solution]

Hello @JessicaDeanSVC 

Thanks for posting this in the Canvas Community! 

• I know that you can look at something called an Access Report for an individual student. I don't think that will display the total time spent on a page, but HERE is the Canvas guide on that. 
• New analytics also has a report that can be generated called Course Activity which generates a list of daily user views and participations. 
• From the admin side there is also a report that can be run called User Course Access Logs. 

I am not totally sure if any of these are what you were thinking of, but let us know! 

-Colton 

[JessicaDeanSVC]

Thank you for the suggestions, but sadly not what we were thinking of. We could have sworn that total time per page was a thing in New Analytics in that course activity section 😕