Introduction

If you use Canvas to grade student work, you will have access to a number of reporting features to help you track and monitor your students’ performance throughout a course. This page includes activities and resources to teach you how to access and use analytics features in Canvas.

On This Page:

Monitor activity in your course with analytics
Interpret quiz analytics to improve performance
Project a student's possible final grades earlier in the term

Monitor activity in your course with analytics

NOTE: Analytics are only available for published courses.

Read this overview of Canvas New Analytics to learn how to access analytics for your entire course or for an individual student in your course:

What are New Analytics for my course? (External resource)

You can also switch to Old Analytics by changing Feature Previews in your course settings. Read this overview of Canvas course analytics to learn more about Old Analytics:

What are Analytics for my course? (External resource)

In the following tutorials, learn how to access Old Analytics for your entire course or for an individual student in your course:

How do I view Analytics for a course? (External resource)
How do I view Analytics for a student in my course? (External resource)

You can find more information about these two analytics options in the following article:

New vs. Old Analytics (External resource)

Interpret quiz analytics to improve performance

Read this tutorial to learn how to access statistics and reports about a quiz in your course. Download the PDF linked in the tutorial to learn more about item analysis for quizzes in Canvas:

Once I publish my quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available? (External resource)

Project a student's possible final grades earlier in the term

Read the following tutorial to learn how students can project their course grade using the “what-if grades” feature:

What are What-If Grades? (External resource)

Provide the following tutorial to your students to help them learn how to use the "what-if grades" features on their own:

How do I approximate my assignment scores using the What-If Grades feature? (External resource)