Release Timing: Generally Available in August 2026 as a feature option
Regional Availability: USA
Customer Type: US Higher Education
Available with: Intelligent Insights, Canvas Plus and Canvas Next
Key Takeaway: Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) Analytics Analytics accesses engagement data from Canvas and uses AI to assess whether courses meet federal financial aid requirements for regular and substantive teacher interactions such as discussions and feedback. This streamlines institutions' efforts to report and maintain compliance and to sustain financial aid eligibility.
For US higher education institutions offering online education, proving RSI is a federal mandate critical for financial aid eligibility and accreditation. Historically, demonstrating RSI has been a tedious, manual, and subjective process, forcing administrators to spot-check individual courses or rely on educators to self-report the frequency and quality of interactions with students throughout the term. This time-consuming, reactive approach often leaves institutions vulnerable to compliance audit liabilities and delays proactive course quality improvements.
RSI Analytics was built to solve this challenge, transforming compliance from a reactive scramble into a proactive, data-driven strategy. By combining Canvas engagement data with AI analysis, this new dashboard provides an automated, objective risk assessment of your entire online course portfolio. This automated reporting not only helps institutions efficiently identify potential gaps in instructor engagement before they face audit liabilities, but also provides the insights needed to improve the overall quality of distance education.
Administrative Highlights:
- Enablement – Enabled by default for root account admins only who can then enable others
- Configuration Availability – users will need to set scope. This will be documented and is self service.
- Part of admin analytics LTI
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