Did my students see my announcement?

[dmbaird]

Is there a way to see if a student saw an announcement?  Are there statistics showing how many of the students in a course saw an announcement?

[garth]

One way to check is to use student view, see this document:

What is Student View? | Canvas Instructor Guide | Canvas Guide

I just posted an announcement in a test course, then used "Student View" and was able to see the announcement.

Let us know if this works for you.

[dmbaird]

I can see it.  I want to know if a student opened the announcement and read it (or watched a video announcement), similar to the page view stats.

[kona · Accepted solution]

I just checked and you can see that the students clicked on the Announcements page/index, but not if they viewed a specific announcement; see image below of how it looks. To get to this screen go to the People link (on left in course), click on the name of a student, and then click on the "Access Report" button on the right side of the page. From the front end/Instructor side of Canvas this is the most you can see - the last time an individual student clicked on the announcement page. And no, there are no statistics on the number or percent of students who viewed it.

[kona]

PS - I just came across this recently submitted Canvas Feature Idea​ - that seems similar to what you want - . It's not open for voting yet, but my recommendation is to comment on it and follow it so you'll know when it's available and you can vote on it!

[dmbaird]

I also discovered that:

• Make your announcement a video announcement;
• place it in Kaltura,
• Imbed Kaltura video in the announcement; then
• you can get analytics of video views from Kaltura itself.

[KendallDinniene]

Wondering if in the six years since this was posted Canvas has actually given instructors the ability to see whether students have viewed a particular announcement, and especially if there is a way to do so more efficiently than clicking through every student on the roster?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @KendallDinniene ...

I'm not *entirely* sure on this, but it might be worth looking into...  Have you tried looking at the New Analytics "Reports" area of Canvas?  There is a "Course Activity" report that *might* have this information in it...though I'm not 100% sure of this.

How do I view and download reports in New Analytic... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Hopefully this will have the data you are looking for, but again, I'm not 100% sure.