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Treat LTI Launch as a Participation

paul_fynn

The absence of LTI based participation from both New Analytics and Admin Analytics is pretty much a showstopper for courses that make intensive use of New Quizzes and other integrations. The result is to substantially underreport student activity.

As an interim measure, could Canvas find/implement a mechanism which allows either

An LTI based activity to trigger a participation record instead of a page view for every launch OR
An LTI based activity to trigger a participation record for the FIRST launch

There may be LIT categories that we may wish to exclude.

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Accepted answers

carlycurran

Thanks, all, for the details on this! I'm taking both of these things into account for discovery:

- how to represent LTI tool use when looking at student participation
- how to make financial aid reporting easier

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Chris

Hi @paul_fynn,

As a Canvas admin for my institution, I would agree that extensive use of LTI tools can make activity harder to track in those courses. Some LTI providers do have their own analytics system, but it's very messy to have to collect all of that data. I know some schools attempt to create a central learning record store and data from every source possible into it, and then create their own dashboards and reports. We're a mid-size public university, so that's really not an option for us with our staffing and budget, but it may be something you could look in to.

With all that being said, I would unfortunately be very much against counting an LTI launch as participation in our data. At least in the US, participation has a somewhat narrow definition for the federal government reporting, and just viewing something in a course unfortunately does not count. For something to count as participation online, the student basically needs to make some kind of submission (discussion post, assignment submission, quiz, etc). While some LTI tools do have submissions, there are many that are just for content delivery.

The new analytics attendance feature does let institution admins define what counts as attendance, so maybe we need something similar for participation which could be used in New Analytics, Admin Analytics, and other areas of Canvas (like the green participation checkmarks in the user page view history). With my coding hat on, I realize the amount of complexity that would add to all of these areas and reports though, and it really may not be feasible for Instructure to do.

Hopefully someone form Instructure will be willing to comment on this from their perspective.

-Chris

DecoyLex

For what it's worth, Canvas does have some mechanism for tools to post interaction data back to the LMS using xAPI. However, I've never actually seen any tools that implement it, and it's not clear whether that'd count as an interaction or if it'd just log time in the student's Total Activity counter.

Greg

Thank you all for this discussion. It makes it especially challenging for our financial aid departments to track down date of last attendance for online classes (following the federal guidelines mentioned by @chriscas). When a student is dropped from a class their financial aid is prorated to the date of last participation, which means a deep dive into each course via the browser for the instructor (or likely the sysadmin) to look for the most recent academically relevant participation. Ugh!

carlycurran

Thanks, all, for the details on this! I'm taking both of these things into account for discovery:

- how to represent LTI tool use when looking at student participation
- how to make financial aid reporting easier

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