Quercus New Analytics

Enable New Analytics in Your Quercus Course

New Analytics is hidden by default. The link to the tool needs to be enabled in the Course Navigation Menu.

1. In your Course Navigation Menu, click Settings.
2. From the tabs at the top, click Feature Previews.
3. Find New Course and User Analytics, select the circled red X, and select “Enabled”.
   The green circled checkmark will indicate you have enabled New Course and User Analytics for your course.
   

New Analytics versus Course Analytics: Feature Comparison

A complete comparison chart is available from the Instructure community – New vs. Old Analytics (Links to an external site.)

Using New Analytics

View Weekly Online Activity Analytics

New Analytics allows you to view weekly online activity in your course,  including the average number of page views and participation per week in your course in an interactive chart graph  or as a table .

1. On course navigation, click New Analytics
2. Select Weekly Online Activity from the drop-down menu

The average page views is the average approximation of student activity across the course. Participation analytics are defined by specific actions a student takes in the course and can be used to identify trends in the course.

For analytical comparisons, instructors can compare graph data  or compare table data by filtering a section or student.

To view analytics for an individual student , click the student’s name.

View Data Status

The analytics tool’s data is updated every 24 hours. To update the students’ grades in the tool, you have to enter grades as you would normally enter in your Gradebook. You can verify this information on the right side upper corner of the screen where the tool will display when was the last update to the data in Analytics.

View Average Course Grade Analytics

This feature allows instructors to track average course grades for student submissions using an interactive chart graph  or in a data table

1. On course navigation, click New Analytics
2. Select Course Grade from the drop-down menu

The average course grade is the average of all student totals from the Gradebook. Course analytics will show you student activity, assignment submissions, grades, and student names.

For analytical comparisons, instructors can compare graph data  or compare table data  by filtering a section, student, or assignment.

In the Filter field, you can filter data by sections or individual students.

You can also choose the assignment type you want to see by checking off the box next to  Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes.

In the filter tabs, you can start typing the name of a section or a student and autocomplete the name of the student/section. To remove the filtered student/section, click the x in the name. You can also enable shapes for improved contrast by selecting the 3 dots on the side and selecting display shapes.

To compare data for a specific result, click the data point (shape) representing the item in the graph. The card will display additional metrics for the section name, assignment name, assignment due date, average grade for the assignment, low and high grades by percentage, and the number of missing and late submissions.

View Course Grade and Participation Analytics for Individual Students

Student analytics show you how well a particular student is doing in your course.  To locate a student, you can sort the table by student name, current grade, percentage of assignments submitted on or before the due date, date of last participation, and date of last page view. To view analytics data for an individual student (Links to an external site.) click the name of the student in the student analytics table.

Available analytics include course grade, weekly online activity, and communication.

Send a Message to Students Based on Grade or Participation Criteria

You can send a message to students (Links to an external site.) whose grades or submissions are among three specific criterion:

• grades are within a specific percentage range,
• assignments are missing, or
• assignments are late

In order to send messages, click the message icon located to the right of the filter tab.

Selection criteria is applied to student performance on all assignments.

Sent messages can be viewed within the Sent folder in the Conversations Inbox. Messages sent to more than one student are sent as individual messages.

If you want to filter analytics for a specific assignment, section, or student, search for and select the intended filter in the Filter field. Then click the Message icon.

Export analytics data as a CSV file

In order to export analytics data to a .CSV file, click the Download icon located to the right of the filter tab (this download will contain a .CSV zip file)

The .CSV files will contain data according to the filters present at the moment of the download and the zip files include .CSV files for chart data, student table data, and resources table data.

Download Reports

You can download reports for missing assignments, late assignments, excused assignments, class roster, and course activity. Reports can be filtered depending on the report type.

• New Analytics report data begins on the date that New Analytics was enabled in a published course.
• In order for New Analytics to display in Canvas, third-party cookies may need to be enabled in your browser settings.

To open and configure a report, select the “Reports” tab and then the “Run Report” button for the corresponding report: