LTI/External Tool for Student-wide View? (For student, family, support, etc. to see all courses)

Question

We're wondering if there are any tools for viewing across classes for an individual student?  For example, a parent calls and wants to know how their student is doing in all their classes.  The current procedure is to look at each of the student's classes individually, go to Grades, generate reports, etc.  Are there any tools that allow us to look at all this data in one place?

Chris · Accepted Answer

Hi @NathanielSimson,

I don't know of an LTI that does this off the top of my head, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist...  Some institutions that I know of have used Canvas Data to get all of the info from Canvas into a database and then built dashboards/reports from that database using tools like Tableau or PowerBI.  This may or may not be feasible for your school depending on resources and expertise available, but I thought I would share it as an option.

-Chris