New Admin User - What do you use for reporting?

Question

I'm new in my position and we are new to fully leveraging Canvas.

Let's say I want to run the following report: I want to know all the enrolled users in a term that haven't accessed a course in 10 days.

How could I find this information?

JamesSekcienski · Answer

Since you are just getting started, I would recommend taking time to review the various account level reports. These reports are easy to run, don't require any additional set-up (other than making sure the appropriate users have permissions to access them), and provide a good starting point for Canvas Reporting. Depending on the question you are trying to answer, a single report may be all you need, or you can use VLOOKUPs/XLOOKUPs to combine data from multiple reports.

* How do I view reports for an account?
* Canvas Default Account Reports

For the example you provided, you might consider using the Zero Activity report since it shows all enrollments for a term, where the student hasn't visited the course since the specified start time.

After taking some time working with the Canvas Default Account Reports, if you find other things you want to generate reports for that can't be easily done with them, I would recommend checking the Canvas Community to see if it has already been asked before. Someone else may have shared an approach for how they created a custom report that provides that information. If you don't see an answer for the type of report you are looking for, you can make a new post and someone may be able to make suggestions. Canvas Data and/or Canvas APIs are often used when looking to make a custom report.

StephenPerez · Answer

I'm new myself, but I have an idea on this one:

Admin > account > Settings > Reports > Last User Access > Configure on right side > Select Term > run Report

Download / Open file > Sort by Last Access Date > Delete rows which have logged on in the past 10 days > those that are leftover should be who you are looking for.

Please someone else correct me if I'm wrong, or if there's an easier method.