As an Administrator, how can I enable the Roll Call Attendance Reports in the Analytics Hub?

[GuidoReverdito]

This is what I currently see, but we do not have that feature enable and it would be highly needed to pull attendance reports across different courses.

Many thank in advance.

Guido Reverdito

[chriscas]

Hi @GuidoReverdito,

I am fairly sure there are no attendance reports available in the Analytics Hub area at this time.  The How do I run Roll Call Attendance reports for an a... - Instructure Community - 116 guide will show you how to get an attendance report CSV file from an account (just not from the Analytics Hub).

I hope this info helps!

-Chris

[GuidoReverdito]

Chris, ciao and thanks for your quick response to my query.

As an admin and a Canvas “superuser” (having started 11 years ago to set up our organization courses on Canvas), I am perfectly aware of the steps to take in order to get an attendance report CSV file from an account. But this process works only for single courses.

What we would need and many of the Director of Academic Affairs in our centers across the world are asking for is the capability of Roll Call Attendance to provide reports across multiple courses in Canvas: to get data about general trends out of all courses offered and mainly to track singles students’ absences in different courses without having to extract data from each of them individually.

It seems though that Roll Call Attendance has not such capability: can you officially confirm this?

Many thanks in advance for your help and have a great day.

Guido

[chriscas]

Hi @GuidoReverdito,

I don't work for Instructure, so I probably can't "officially" confirm anything, but as far as I know the attendance report in the account settings area really is the only way to do this.  As you note, the report doesn't really work in bulk for a long period of time though, as without filytering to a student or course, you get 7 days worth of data.  It may be something you need to fun on a weekly basis and keep your own compilation.

I'll move your post over to the Data and Analytics area of the community to see if anyone there has any better advice.  I'm fairly certain raw attendance data (not just the score than transfers to the gradebook) is not available in Canvas Data 2 because Attendance is technically an LTI integration, but I could certainly be wrong about that.

-Chris