Canvas Course Statistics

Course Statistics give you a glimpse into which Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes are engaging

students and what might be improved in the future. It will also help you to detect which students are

not participating to the fullest or have started to fall behind the rest of the class.

Accessing Basic Course Statistics

1. In your course, click the Settings tab.

2. Click the Course Statistics link.

In the Totals tab, view running totals of

course discussions, assignments, active

students, and quizzes.

In the Assignments tab, you can view statistics about

assignments in your course including the submission

type, number of assignments, and number of

submissions.

In the Students tab, you can view the

students who have recently logged in to

Canvas.

In the File Storage tab, you can view the allotted

storage for your course, the number uploaded files,

and the number of unique media files in your course.

Quiz Statistics

You can view quiz statistics for quizzes that have been published and have at least one submission. You

can also download comma separate value (CSV) files to view Student Analysis or Item Analysis for each

quiz question.

1. In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.

2. Click the title of the quiz you want to open.

3. Click the Quiz Statistics link.

Note: Quiz Statistics will not be available until at least one student has completed the quiz. If a student

had multiple assignment attempts, you can view past attempts in SpeedGrader. Quiz stats will only

display the kept score for the student (highest score or latest score). To view the score setting for

multiple attempts, edit your quiz and view the multiple attempts settings option. If necessary, you can

give your students an extra attempt.

Quiz Statistics Summary

By default, the quiz summary shows statistics for all sections including the quiz average score, high

score, low score, standard deviation (how far the values are spread across the entire score range), and

average time of quiz completion [1].

To view quiz statistics for a section, click the Section Filter drop-down menu [2]. To access additional

survey results, generate a Student/Item Analysis report [3].

In the summary graph, the x-axis indicates the quiz scored percentages [4], and the y-axis indicates the

number of students who received each percentage [5].

View Analysis Reports

When instructors generate an analysis report, Canvas shows the last time the report was generated. If

there is an error with the report, instructors can retry the option or cancel the analysis completely.

Download CSV files to view Student Analysis or Item Analysis for each quiz question to count all student

attempts in the statistics.

View Question Breakdown

Quiz question shows the total percentage of students who answered the quiz question correctly [1].

Each question includes a breakdown with each question answer choice. Correct answer response(s) are

shown in a green bar with a check mark [2]; incorrect responses are shown in a black bar [3].

Question types that do not have set answer choices, such as Fill-in-the-Blank questions, display entries

other than the correct answer in a black striped bar [4]. The horizontal bars are scaled according to the

answer response percentage [5].

Each response also displays the number of respondents who selected the answer [6]. To view the names

of the students who selected an answer choice, click the [x respondents] link.

View Manually Graded Questions

Quiz statistics also show relative grade performance for manually graded essay and file upload quiz

question types. Manually graded question types are shown in the same table format as other quiz types.

A manually graded quiz type is marked as correct if it contains a student score greater than or equal to

the question points possible.

Grade breakdown responses are shown as the top 27% [1], middle 46% [2], and bottom 27% [3]. The

statistics also show submissions that have not yet been graded [4]. However, if all scores are identical, a

response category may show more than the percentage number of students (e.g., all students score

100%).

Manually graded questions also include access to SpeedGrader for quick reference [5].