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Using Canvas APIs to Serve a Campus Early Warning System Steven Lonn Assistant Director, Learning, Education & Design Lab Glenn Auerbach Lead BSA, Information & Technology Services #umdigitaled @stevelonn Agenda Introduction

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Using Canvas APIs to Serve a Campus Early Warning System

Steven Lonn

Assistant Director, Learning, Education & Design Lab

Glenn Auerbach

Lead BSA, Information & Technology Services

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Agenda

  • Introduction
  • Background on Student Explorer
  • Our technical journey with Canvas APIs
  • Questions
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Acknowledgements: The Team, The Team, The Team

LED Lab

  • Stephen Aguilar
  • Amine Boudalia
  • Michael Brown
  • Matt DeMonbrun
  • Niyati Gupta
  • Andrew Krumm
  • Gierad Laput
  • Stephanie Teasley
  • Joseph Waddington

LSA Mgmt Information Sys

  • Mark Bacon
  • Richard Richter

ITS

  • Glenn Auerbach
  • Jeff Jenkins
  • Ruby Nugent

Advising partners in CSP, EAC, LSA Board, M-STEM

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An Evolution of Advising

Developmental, or "Intrusive" advising calls for more information about students' short and long term goals. Trustworthy, formative data is needed to realize & support intervention strategies for contacting students who might

  • therwise not seek advising / coaching.
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What is an Early Warning System?

Early Warning Systems (EWSs) utilize historical and current educational data in

  • rder to determine, in near real time, which

students might be at risk of academic jeopardy. By leveraging learning analytics techniques, EWSs produce "actionable intelligence" that the user can utilize to direct students toward resources or changes in behavior in a timely manner (Arnold, 2010).

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A design research project investigating how to best facilitate advisors' use of analytic data in their practice

STUDENT EXPL RER

Photo Credit: http://teacherrogers.wordpress.com

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Who's Using Student Explorer?

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Data Structure

  • Start with what is most common

across courses at UM ○ Grades ○ Logins

  • Started with a data structure

to support Sakai

○ Now need to adapt structure to fit additional data sources like Canvas and other local tools

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Classification Scheme

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Summary Screen

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Course Detail

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Instructor Comments

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“Trustworthy, formative data”

U-M Data Warehouse

2000 classes

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“Trustworthy, formative data”

U-M Data Warehouse

Fall 2014 20 classes 1980 classes

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“Trustworthy, formative data”

U-M Data Warehouse

Winter 2015 100 classes 1900 classes

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“Trustworthy, formative data”

U-M Data Warehouse

Fall 2015 1000 classes? 1000 classes

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Canvas APIs

canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/index.html Catalog of 74 APIs

(application programming interfaces)

  • Accounts
  • Analytics
  • Calendar Events
  • Conversations
  • Enrollments
  • Gradebook History
  • Logins
  • Submissions
  • Users
  • ...
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Get the data!

Submissions Events Courses Students Assignments GET api/v1/courses/183/analytics/student_summaries GET api/v1/accounts/1/courses?enrollment_term_id=sis_term_id:2010 GET api/v1/courses/183/assignments GET api/v1/courses/183/users?enrollment_type=student GET api/v1/courses/183/students/submissions?student_ids[]=all&include...

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Exploring an API

https://umich.instructure.com/api/v1 /courses/183 /students/submissions ?student_ids[]=all &include[]=submission_comments &per_page=100

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Always APIs?

APIs

  • relatively small transactions
  • real time exchanges

Unizin Live Events Stream

  • Canvas events are emitted in real time
  • listeners on our end decide what to collect or act on

Canvas Data service (hosted data in Amazon Redshift)

  • large volumes of data
  • scheduled process - not real time
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What's Next for Student Explorer: Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG)

www.flickr.com/photos/arne-halvorsen/4037650307

STUDENT EXPL RER

Academic Reporting Toolkit (ART)

Establishing a pathway to scale

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… removing the “gray element” from student self-reported

  • grades. … The Student Explorer tool deepens the conversation

around opportunities to engage in important meaningful activities

  • n campus.
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Thank You! Questions?

Steven Lonn

slonn@umich.edu

Glenn Auerbach

auerbach@umich.edu