Improve Access Report Feature
I am an instructor.
The Access Report feature is the only way for a teacher to see whether a student has accessed a particular item on Canvas. However, this feature has two big problems. Well, it has one gigantic glaring problem that renders it useless, and one frustrating problem.
Big Giant Problem: it isn't accurate. I cannot use it to get an accurate view of whether my students have accessed a particular item.
Frustrating Problem: It's hard to use because you cannot navigate between students while in this view.
1. (Big Giant Problem) I used the access report to see whether students have accessed the lecture, and to send a reminder email to those who have not, so that they don't fall behind.
2 students emailed me to say that they had watched the lecture. I double checked. Their access report said nothing about it.
I opened a chat link and waited 2 hours.
The chat person looked into it, and after looking at Page Views (which I cannot access) they said that the student was correct, they had accessed the page. When I asked why it didn't show up where I could see it, the chat support person said, "The access report is only a limited amount of views I believe"
When I asked if there was a way to ensure that it showed at least one view of each distinct page, the chat person said "No that isn't possible. It's based on the students navigation"
When I asked if there was another way for a teacher to access whether a student had viewed a particular item, they said, "Page views is the most accurate and it is an admin tool"
So the upshot is that if I want an accurate report of whether my students are accessing my lecture, I have to ask admin to verify 5-10 student's access, every week. I have no way of doing so myself.
To put it in the most mild terms, that seems like it could be improved.
2. (Frustrating Problem) You have to navigate back two pages to the Class Roster in order to move to the next student. This makes it take way more time than it should to check all the students' access.
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