If Canvas finds an existing user, you can confirm the user before adding the user to the course. The user's name displays in the page along with the user's information you used in the user search. Although Canvas may display additional search columns, existing information in a user's account will not be displayed.
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In Canvas accounts, admins can allow Open Registration, which allows you to add users to a course even if the users do not yet have a Canvas account. The user will create an account as part of accepting the course invitation. However, if Open Registration is not enabled, you can only add users to your course who already have an account in Canvas.
To update the Actively Learn roster when teachers integrate with Canvas, they will need to make changes in Canvas and sync the changes to Actively Learn. Roster updates cannot be done directly in Actively Learn.
If you added a user without a Canvas account, the user can create an account as part of the course invitation process. Once the user has accepted the course invitation, you can interact with the user in the course. You can also send messages to the user via Conversations. If necessary, you may be able to edit a user's role in Canvas.
When an enrollment is manually added to the course, Canvas generates a course invitation once the course is published. The user must accept the course invitation to participate in the course.
Click People on the left navigation of the course to view a list of people in the course.
To find a list of activity for any given student, click on the ellipsis menu to the right of their name and select 'User Details' and then on the right side of the Individual Student page click on 'Access Report'.
Canvas provides course instructors with an Access Report for each student. which can be viewed by first clicking on the People navigation item, then clicking on a student's name, and finally clicking on the "Access Report for student's name" button on the right-side of the student page.
Run a Student Activity ReportIn the left course navigation menu, select the Student Activity link.From the Student Name pull-down menu, select the student's name.Click the Run Report button.You can save the report as a PDF by clicking the Save as PDF button.
Professors can see how often a student logs into Canvas, what files they've opened and other student usage.
It can typically tell if a student minimizes it because it loses "focus" and will likely show up in the log that they "stopped viewing the quiz.....", but Canvas can't tell anything else about the computer itself or other programs running on it.
From the front end/Instructor side of Canvas this is the most you can see - the last time an individual student clicked on the announcement page. And no, there are no statistics on the number or percent of students who viewed it.
Professors can view students' general interactions with the site, specifically with discussion boards and files. “The professor can see what pages the students have visited, and they're given the general time frame the students have spent on each page,” Guerra said.
Thanks for the follow-up. If you go to People > [student] > Access Report, you can get a list of how many times the student has accessed a particular area of the course, and when they last viewed it.
Canvas tracks page views, participation, assignments, and grades for students through the Analytics tool. Canvas also tracks the Last Activity and Total Activity in a Course.
In a normal assignment environment, Blackboard or Canvas cannot detect screen sharing or screenshots if a student is working on them using a normal browser. The system cannot detect what you do outside their current page. However, if proctored, Canvas can detect and prevent screen sharing or taking of screenshots.
Yes. They can see when you click off the exam page and back into it. Got an email after one of my finals cause people were getting caught doing it.
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