How is the “Total Activity” time that’s shown on the people page in Canvas calculated. Is it based on total interaction time on pages? How does “hang time” between interactions get taken into account? If at all.
@bwalters , this is explained in How do I use the People page as an instructor? . Under the View Users section, you'll see the legend for #7, Total Activity:
Total Activity [7]—allows you to see how long students interact within a course and is associated with page views. Total activity time is displayed in hours:minutes:seconds. If a user has not yet reached an hour of activity, total activity time is displayed as minutes:seconds. Total activity requires a two-minute page view minimum for performance. Total Activity does not capture page views for videos that do not include intermediate page requests, such as a half-hour recorded lecture.
Is it still true that activity that takes place within the Mobile app is not documented in these numbers at all? This is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as students are using the mobile apps more and more. How do we know (when and how much) if a student is using the app?
Trying to figure out if Canvas records last activity every time a computer is woken up from sleep mode. Student says he was not on Canvas and yet it shows "last activity" during an exam.
how do I see what pages were accessed?
I also have this question, but specific to how far back does that total activity go? Is it for the past week, for example, or is total activity since the beginning of the course? Can we change this setting overall to show how much students have been active, say, for the past 7 days?
Thanks!
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