Instructor Insight

• Gives you a real-time window into your department's classrooms.
• Allows you to see and define “normal” instructor actions and activities.
• Raises immediate “red flags” for lack of activity or abnormal grade distribution.
• Ties instructor behaviors to the overall risk level of the students in that class.

• Gives you a real-time window into your courses, all in one place. 
• Shows how your course activity compares to the college average, so you know where you stand. 
• Flags issues early, like ungraded submissions piling up or a gap since you last posted grades, before they affect students.

1. Open Canvas from the Titan Hub. 
2. Once inside of Canvas, select the Admin button on the global navigation (1) and then select the subaccount you'd like to view in Instructor Insight (2). 
   
3. Then, select Instructor Insight from the menu. 
   

To access Instructor Insight for a live course, navigate to your course navigation, locate the Third Party Tools menu (1) and select Instructor Insight from that menu (2).

When you access Instructor Insight, you will see a list of instructors and the courses that they are currently
teaching. There may be multiple pages of results. Instructors are listed alphabetically by first name. You may utilize the search functionality to find an instructor or search by course name. Or, you can view all of the courses in your subaccount at once. A color indicator is visible for the days since the last access, days since grades were posted, days since the last (discussion) post, and the percentage of high risk students.

The colors indicate numbers. For example, in the case of Last access (days), green means fewer than 3, yellow means between 3-4 days, and red means it's been five or more days since the professor accessed. 

If an instructor is teaching multiple courses, the number and percentage displayed on the summary screen will be the highest of any course that they are currently teaching. In the screenshot below, Addison Murphy is teaching two courses. She last accessed her courses 2 days ago, last posted grades 2 days ago, has 75 ungraded submissions, last posted to a discussion one day ago, and 35.71 of her students are classified as high risk. This screen is intended to be a summary across multiple courses so that you may identify instructors who may need closer review. To view the 'days since' for each individual course, please click on the arrow next to the instructor's name.

Sort by Columns

If you're viewing all courses, you can click on a column header to sort by column. 

Suggested next step: Sort all of your instructors in ascending order using one of the columns. 

If you click the "Ungraded Submissions" column header, you'll be able to see the instructors with the highest number of ungraded submissions at the top. This enables you to research further, and reach out to the instructor. 

If you click the "High-risk students" column header, you'll be able to see the instructors with the highest percentage of high-risk students in their courses. This enables you to research further and determine what actions can be taken by the instructor to support these students proactively.

Course Insights

Click on a hyperlink for a specific course to see the detailed insights for that course. 

For each of the following sections, you can see the data for the instructor, and also for all instructors on average.

1. Course Access Frequency
2. Student to Course Radio
3. Total Weekly Instructor Discussion Posts
4. Discussion Participation (Days/Week)
5. Discussion Participation (Percent)
6. Average Student Discussion Posts
7. Discussion Posts
8. Discussion Topic Breakdown
9. Submission Counts
10. Ungraded Submission Ages
11. Grade Distribution
12. Grading Feedback
13. Daily Student Risk
14. Notes

You can view them all at once, or you can select one from the dropdown menu in the top righthand corner of the screen.

When you open Instructor Insight from your course, you'll see a detailed view of your activity in that course, alongside the average for all instructors at the college. Use it to check in on your grading, your presence in the course, and how your students are doing.

The Top of the Page

1. Your name. Select the printer icon next to your name to print the full report.
2. Course name. This shows which course you're viewing. Select it to return to your course.

Course Insights Sections

1. Course Access Frequency. Shows how often you accessed your course each day, compared with how often instructors across the college access their courses on average. Select Course Access Report for more detail.
2. Student to Course Ratio. Shows the number of students enrolled in your course compared with the average number of students per course. Select Course Enrollments to see the full list.
3. Total Weekly Instructor Discussion Posts. Shows the total number of discussion posts you wrote each week, compared with the average number of weekly posts by instructors. Select Recent Posts to view them.
4. Discussion Participation (Days/Week). Shows how many different days each week you posted in a discussion, up to a maximum of 7 (a post every day). The peer average shows the typical number of days instructors post each week.
5. Discussion Participation (Percent). Shows what percentage of all discussion posts in your course were written by you. The peer average shows the typical percentage for instructors in their courses.
6. Average Student Discussion Posts. Shows the average number of discussion posts per student in your course each week, compared with the average for students across all courses.
7. Discussion Posts. Lists your discussion posts, including the date, course, topic, and message.
8. Discussion Topic Breakdown. Shows your 15 most recently created discussion topics, with the number of posts you made and the average number of posts per student for each. Select Course Discussions to go to the discussions in your course.
9. Submission Counts. Compares the number of submissions graded each day with the number still waiting to be graded. Select Teacher Activity or Grading History for more detail.
10. Ungraded Submission Ages. Shows how long ungraded submissions have been waiting, grouped into 0–3, 4–7, 8–14, 15–30, and 31+ days.
11. Grade Distribution. Shows the percentage of students at each grade level, grouped in ranges of 5 points (for example, grades from 95 to 99 are counted as 95). Select Gradebook to view individual grades.
12. Grading Feedback. Lists recent feedback you've left on student work, including the assignment, student, score, and comment. Select Teacher Activity Report for more detail.
13. Daily Student Risk. Shows how many students in your course were at high, medium, or low risk each day, based on Dropout Detective risk levels.