Want to automate course enrollments in Canvas LMS? Discover how to use Canvas Live Events and a simple Python script to automatically enroll students into a follow-up course after completing a prerequisite. This guide provides a proof-of-concept, too...

Using DAP to create a better accessibility report.

Introduction It was great seeing everyone this past week, and thank you to all who attended our Canvas Data 2 Meetup on Thursday, July 11! As promised, @JenniferLash and I wanted to follow up so we can continue the awesome and engaging discussion we ...

I have recently joined as a Senior Product Manager for the Instructure Data & Insights team. I’m overseeing the DAP Query API and the DAP CLI client and library. I look forward to meeting many of you to discuss your data and analytics priorities.  As...

When accessing your data via the DAP CLI or the API, it is important to understand where your data lives. DAP has a few different namespaces to break out the different data points that are available. A namespace is an abstract container or environmen...

Unlock the power of the Data Access Platform CLI & Client Library! Learn how to seamlessly integrate with Postgres and MYSQL databases while mastering essential commands and environment setup. Dive into our comprehensive guide for effective database ...

In the past two days, our weblogs (including user_agents table) data processing experienced some issues while completing the query jobs for customers in the North Virginia region. As an effort to prevent a wider incident and maintain Canvas Data 2 ma...

This is a notice to customers, that our data processing experienced some issues and queries returned 502 while execution time started to increase. We have set the Canvas Data 2 status to Performance degraded, see https://status.instructure.com/, yet ...

Discover how Canvas Data 2 revolutionizes education with its comprehensive analytics, empowering institutions to analyze student and course activities for informed decision-making. From generating API keys to unleashing the potential of visualization...

Please review whether your integrations will be affected by this change.

Queries for Canvas metrics.  Anyone have sql queries for clicks, views for assignments by college. And other metric queries for external ,tools used, submissions in a day by college. If you have a starting point of queries please help.    

Have you ever wanted to do a live demonstration of New Analytics with a real course but couldn't because of student privacy issues? Fake students in a fake course don't generate realistic usage. New Analytics pulls information from the production ins...

Need to know which courses have assignments created?Need to know what type and how many assignments instructors use?

Weekend outage affecting the North Virgina region.

The Caliper event transformation logic is being updated, effective Monday, 12 October 2020.

For August 24, Canvas Data customers will see this 20% omission reflected within the monthly historical refresh file and the New Analytics Weekly Online Activity totals.

North Virginia region: data loss from 8/24, 8/25, and 8/26

In the Canvas Data (2018-12-11) release, an identifier that is a reserved word in some systems (such as AWS Redshift) was introduced in some Outcomes Tables. The ‘percent’ column in the learning_outcome_result_fact and learning_outcome_question_resul...

We're proud to introduce a Canvas Network course being offered FREE by Jing Qi and Brian Reid of Dartmouth College. The course is titled "Analytics in Course Design: Leveraging Canvas Data," and will help faculty and instructional designers explore C...