LTI Usage Data: Tool Improvement Ideas

[james_whalley]

Before I put my wishlist below, I just want to thank the Instructure team for putting such hard work into bringing us more information to improve our decision making.

1. Is there any possibility of extending the available date range for LTI Usage reports? A 30 day window is helpful, but not nearly as much as being able to see results over a multi-month period.
   1. Could one date range option be to choose a specific term (and have the dates of activity match the term dates)?
2. Can the term of a course be included in the Course Usage report? That would help us to identify activity in courses from past terms and separate that from current course usage.
3.  Is it possible to have a graph of activity over the date range selected? This would help us to identify trends in semesterly usage of tools, allowing us to better plan when to make updates to tools and when tool support workers take time off. 

[Jennifer_Mayes]

Yes, I agree that each of these would be beneficial!

[kyle_cole · Accepted solution]

Howdy! 

First, thanks for the feedback, keep it coming!

Great news is that all of this is on the immediate roadmap.  1 & 2 are coming Q4 this year and 3 is coming Q1-25

[james_whalley]

@kyle_cole That's awesome! Is there a public-facing roadmap for this anywhere? I'd love to see what else y'all are working on.

Thanks,

James

[james_whalley]

@kyle_cole I just wanted to check in on these matters. I notice that:

1. 30 days still seems to be the limit for the date range
2. There is still no term data in the Course Usage report.

Thank you!

[kyle_cole]

@james_whalley We are working on that. It will be posted on the roadmap page.

[james_whalley]

@kyle_cole I liked your responses to the first round so much that I have a new round of ideas for you:

1. It would be nice if the navigation links at the top were more blatantly buttons/links. The Analytics Hub link should also have the icon used for that link in other areas.
2. CSV exports should not separate course titles that include a comma. Currently it splits these because it reads the comma in the course title the same as the commas being used for separating values.
3. CSV exports should include information regarding the dates covered by the report. Currently, there is nothing in the file indicative if what period of time the data represents.
4. Can we have exports in formats other than CSV? Maybe Google Sheets or Excel files?
5. Can one of the export formats retain the hyperlinks available in the online reports? Currently, the reports online have links to courses or users, but the export file does not.
6. Instructor Champions only includes their names (which are not necessarily unique); could those hyperlink to full profiles of those users?
7. Could Instructor Champions possibly include TAs? It is not uncommon for a TA to be handling most of the nitty-gritty in an LTI.
8. Avg launches per user might be a nice stat to include (to help account for enrollment size when looking at use frequency).
9. In the Course Usage report, could there be some way to contact the instructors of those courses? Maybe through Messaging?
10. Where do the roles come from? How can we track at which level they exist (account or course, root account or subaccount)?
11. Can we know which tools are integrated at the account, subaccount, or course level?
12. Can we know the placements of the tools and have differentiated launch data per placement (if we filter by placement)?
13. Can we know who installed the tool?
14. Can we have notifications for things such as:
    1. When a new tool is added to the usage data
    2. When tools surpass or drop below specific benchmarks of usage
       1. overall
       2. by subaccount
       3. by specific instructors

Again, thank you for all of the hard work the Intelligent Insights team is investing in developing this tool and taking the time to listen to our feedback.

--James