Student File Access Report

themidiman

Wondering if anyone knows how an instructor can see the usage of a particular file by all students on the roster. They want to know how effective a particular study guide file is before creating more like them for all the assessments. An individual student's access report will show it on their logs but to check each and every student on the roster is multiple mouse clicks. New Analytics doesn't seem to have that as a data point either.

dbrace

Hi @themidiman,

I do not believe there is a way to accomplish this using native functionality from Canvas.

However, @Code-with-Ski has built an extension that is compatible with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (if you allow extensions from the Chrome Web Store) called Canvas LMS Mods (Basic).

The extension has a set of reports that are available from the "Statistics" page of a Canvas course and one of them is called (something familiar) "User Access Report" and it goes through all users in the course and generates a downloadable CSV file (also visible within Canvas) and shows who has accessed what.

There is additional information about the extension at https://code-with-ski.github.io/Canvas-LMS_Mods-Website. Details about reports in "Statistics" can be found on the "Course Mods" webpage on that website and there is a post in the Canvas Developers Group at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/Custom-Course-Reports/ba-p/581822.

 

FYI - I just used that report earlier today while helping an instructor find out who attempted to access a quiz in the course that had its dates incorrectly configured.

 

Will that help you out?

 

-Doug