Watermark's Advanced Canvas Integration with Planning & Self Study allows for greater flexibility in data collection from the LMS in order to gain better insights into student learning and performance.
Required Data
The Planning & Self-Study Advanced Canvas Integration requires additional files to be uploaded to System Administration.
The table below lists the files required for use of Planning & Self Study with the integration:
CSV Import |
Required or Optional |
Recommended Frequency of Updating |
Organizations |
Required |
One time import |
Programs |
Required |
Update as programs are added or removed |
People |
Required
|
Needs reviewed each new term |
Terms |
Required for mapping to terms from the LMS. |
Can build out a year in advance |
Courses |
Required |
Needs reviewed each new term |
Sections |
Required for mapping to courses from the LMS. |
Needs reviewed each new term |
Enrollments |
Required |
Needs reviewed each new term |
Basic Person Attributes |
Required if filtering by student demographics
|
N/a |
Student Term Attributes |
Required if filtering by student demographics
|
N/a |
Program Curriculum |
Required |
Needs reviewed each new term |
Note: Cohort Enrollment data is not required for Planning & Self Study.
The steps to pulling data from Canvas are as follows:
- Creating a Measure to pull Canvas data into
- Aligning the Measure to a Rubric or Activity in Canvas
- Defining the Met Criteria
All of these steps are described in further detail in the resources linked below.
Creating a New Measure
The first step in the integration is to build a Measure into which the data from Canvas can be pulled.
While there are three areas in Planning & Self Study where Measures can be created, for the purposes of the integration, Measures must be created in the Outcomes area.
This process is described in further detail in the section titled "Creating Measures in the Outcomes Area" of the article linked below:
Adding an Alignment
Administrators and Contributors can add alignments to a Measure of a learning outcome. Alignments can be made to either a rubric or an activity. Users must select the source before choosing the alignment type. Follow the steps below to add an alignment by Rubric or Activity.
For more information on Aligning a Measure to a Rubric or Activity, see the article linked below:
Adding an Alignment to a Measure
Defining the Met Criteria for Rubric and Activity Alignments
Users have the ability to define the Met Criteria, which involves specifying the thresholds that must be achieved for criteria to be defined as having been Met.
The process for defining the Met Criteria for rubric alignments includes two options:
- using the overall rubric score
- using specific rubric criteria results
For information on defining the Met Criteria for Rubric Alignments, see the article linked below:
Defining the Met Criteria for Rubric Alignments
For information on defining the Met Criteria for Activity Alignments, see the article linked below:
Defining the Met Criteria for Activity Alignments