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Hi Kevin, I appreciate your detailed posts and explanations to these three questions and your explanations; however, I am not sure that they directly answer the real questions, or that maybe the real questions were not communicated well. So, I want to verify that I have understood your replies correctly and that everyone understands the questions, and answers. Follow-up posts are welcomed, such as Stuart’s, but I don’t see his post changing my summary below; perhaps, reinforcing it. As an instructor, this “graphic” shows the statistics “Total Activity” and “Page Views” for one student in one course.   [The graphic that previously displayed here has been removed at the request of the school] ––> The three questions, simplified are: 1. Are you able to provide my school’s course analytics team the exact step-by-step method that they should use to reproduce and verify the exact “Page View” counts, and which pages were viewed (shown in my graphic?) (Yes or No?) From your reply, I see the answer as “No.” Correct me if I misunderstood your reply. 2. Does the “Page View” statistic, as shown in the graphic, include all student’s mobile data? (Yes or No?) Your answer is “No.” Correct me if I misunderstood your reply. 3. Are you able to provide my school’s analytics team the exact method that they should use to reproduce and verify the exact “Total Activity” time that Canvas reports? (Yes or No?) Your answer appears to be a very solid “No.” I don’t see described step-by-step methods to reproduce these statistics from what you have told us. The computer code is undocumented, “nested,” messy, and logic (like a flowchart) is missing. If you believe that your answers to any of these questions are a “yes,” then I need you to provide us the exact method that any school can follow to reproduce the exact data that Canvas is showing us. ... View more

Hello Steve, Unfortunately the "Show All Details" is a client side action only, and does not fire off a network request. If you hover over the link as a student you can see this by: " https://domain.com/courses/:course_id/grades# ". If you notice there is a pound sign at the end. This pound sign is why it doesn't fire off a network request. This is generally referred to as an anchor link, or fragment. I've seen two major uses for anchor links in general websites: 1. Linking to a specific part of a page (framgent/anchor). This is usually seen when you click a link, and it scrolls half way down the page. 2. Using the link style (as a stylistic choice), and then running javascript to change elements of the page or not doing anything. In the Canvas Grades interface it uses the second option, using javascript to unhide elements, and calculate averages/etc, but that's more of an alternate point. Back to the question at hand. Anchor links, or fragments do not generate network requests as they should be either JS (which is client side (mostly)), or something already existing on the page. As such making a new network request would be inefficient, and perhaps create a bad experience (potentially). As such you'll not be able to get that click information from the requests table. As for the ping information this is implemented through every page in Canvas. This is when a user spends a a certain amount of time on a page. It's the clients way of making sure it's still got a good connectivity to the Canvas Server(s). ... View more

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