Canvas Ask Your Data

Introduction

Canvas Ask Your Data is an AI powered analytics tool included as part of Intelligent Insights in Canvas. It allows admins and educators to explore Canvas data using natural language instead of writing SQL or technical queries. You can ask questions like “Which students have not logged in this week?” and receive visual results with clear explanations of how the data was generated. This guide is SPC's landing page for all information regarding Ask Your Data. 

Contents

How do I access Ask Your Data?

How do I utilize the AI for Ask Your Data?

How do I view and download my Ask Your Data results?

What is the Pinboard in Ask Your Data? 

Tips on creating Effective Prompts 

How do I access Ask Your Data?

To access Ask Your Data, login to your admin account for Canvas (not your lastname.firstname account). You may need to use a different browser than you usually use. Select Admin from the global navigation (1), select Analytics Hub (2), and then select Ask Your Data (3). 

How do I utilize the AI for Ask Your Data?

Guide: How do I utilize the AI for Ask Your Data?

This guide walks through how to use the Ask Your Data AI chat, including starting a new query, using suggested prompts, exploring the prompt library, refining results, and understanding the output and methodology.

How do I view and download my Ask Your Data results?

Guide: How do I view and download results set from Ask Your Data? 

This article explains how to open a full view of your Ask Your Data query results and download the output for further use. It shows how to expand the results to a full screen that includes the original prompt, summary, methodology, and data table, and how to save the results in formats such as CSV or PDF for offline analysis or sharing. 

What is the Pinboard in Ask Your Data? 

Guide: What is the pinboard in Ask Your Data? 

Guide: How do I share a pinboard in Ask Your Data? 

These articles explain the Pinboard feature in Ask Your Data which enables you to save, reuse, and share queries. 

Tips on creating Effective Prompts 

Guide: How do I create an effective prompt?

This article provides best practices for writing clear and effective natural language prompts in Ask Your Data so that the AI returns more accurate and relevant results by guiding you to define criteria, quantify requests, and use focused language.

Guide: 26 Questions to Ask Your Data

This Instructure blog post provides sample questions that demonstrate how Ask Your Data can be used for common institutional and instructional needs. It is helpful for users who want ideas for getting started. 

SPC Tested Ask Your Data Prompts

These are prompts that we've had success with. If you'd like to submit an Ask Your Data prompt to this list, please send an email to atst@spcollege.edu with "Sharing my Ask Your Data prompt" in the subject line. 

1. Prompt: Please list the 0660 courses in the with no due dates on any assignments. 
2. Prompt: What courses in the 0660 term are using weighted categories where total grade is over 100% and that include an assignment with Extra Credit in the title?
3. Prompt: Please list the 0660 courses with no due dates on any assignments. 
   • Refining the results: I would like to refine the results... Could you filter out any courses that include the words in-service?
4. Prompt: Please list the 0660 courses that have 

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