Speedgrader

Question

Hi,

Is it possible to know how many faculty are using speedgrader in Canvas?

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Robert · Answer

You can go to individual users/instructors and scroll down to Page Views, you can download a CSV file.

You could possibly script this, but not sure how.

https://canvas.instructure.com/users/123/page_views.csv

I have too many users to use a lot of the API or csv files for data processes, and go for Canvas Data Portal instead.

I use the API mostly for sending/scripting tasks into Canvas.

In Canvas Data, you'd want the Requests Table.

I don't have time to dive into a query with joins for you at the moment, but here's a basic starting point.

SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM dbo.requests WHERE url LIKE '%/gradebook/speed_grader%'

You could then join, on course, user, and even count the number of times/days the instructor hits that url.

Let me know if this is something you're interested in and I can work out an example. I like sharing examples for the community, so they are free to use and then I catalog them for our own use if/when we need them. :smileygrin:

Edit: Offering the following to start getting it into the community conversation.

I can also see that it's (speed_grader) in the asset_accessed.asset_subtype of Canvas Live Events, but you would need to store or collect these events as they happen.

Live Events (experimental) - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation

Live Events Services - Table of Contents

I'd start with Canvas Data. Live Events is tricky, and as far as I can know, is best for notification services, or temporarily handling the delay in Canvas Data.