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@NathanArnold  The information of when each student accessed a page is not available through the Access Report; it is only for summary purposes. Most people would recommend looking at the Page Views, but that is enormous and it's not easy to break out just the page views from all of the other noise. Doing so would require using Canvas Data to be effective. I would recommend looking at Canvas Data Services Live Events. You set up an AWS SQS queue and then tell Canvas to send a notification every time a certain event happens. I've been collecting data on views (assignments, pages, navigation) for a couple of years now and the cost is usually less than $2 a month (we're a small community college), but the point is that it is pretty cheap. You have to poll the queue to get the information. Alternatively, you could set it to send the information directly to your host and then get it in near real time. The Live Events makes a best-attempt at delivery. If AWS is down of Canvas is super busy, the notification may be lost. It doesn't happen often, but you should have a backup if it is really, super important that you capture every event. Another approach is to download the access report daily and archive them. Then you can go through and check and see what has changed. I wouldn't really consider that since it's a lot of work, but if you're a teacher and not someone with database or programming expertise, it may be your best shot at capturing that information. ... View more

Respectfully, why doesn't Instructure try creating several courses within their own instance of Canvas and re-create the problem and troubleshoot it internally? This is such an easily replicable problem. It's clear that this problem is impacting multiple users and multiple institutions. The suggestion to "try clearing your browse" is not helpful given a problem of this scale and severity.  ... View more

I would love to see a way to synchronize Canvas attendance data with our SIS (Banner). It is kind of an essential feature, don't you think? Thank you all!  ... View more

Taking a look at the style guide, it's all hand coded: the icons, the assignment name and links, the due dates, points, etc. You can manually create something that looks like the modules page and will allow users to expand/collapse the lists, but you won't get the same functionality as on the modules page (e.g. drag-and-drop organization, instant population of asset type, points, due date, publish state, etc. from the object metadata). If that still sounds useful to you, let me know and I can start to parse the code out although it might take a day or two. If you're primarily looking for a way to show/hide content (which can include links to Canvas objects), the Element Toggler a simpler option. ... View more