Advanced Canvas Integration

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 help center article below discu...

  Term Mapping Purpose: Required for mapping to terms from the LMS.  Term ID Terms are required where the term ID has to match the SIS ID in Canvas when selecting the option to "Use all terms that are mapped in Watermark System Admin." If the administrator is not selecting this option, then terms are not required for data mapping.  Upon activating the integration, the...

  Before proceeding with the set up, it is a best practice to import the required data files in System Administration.  Canvas - Required Data Mapping in System Administration & Canvas   It is best practice for a designated account to be created for the purpose of setting up the integration. An existing Canvas Administrator account can be used, but if those accounts are...

When setting up the Advanced Canvas integration, the institution will need a Canvas Administrator account that has been allocated the permissions laid out below. By providing these permissions, we ensure that Planning & Self Study can access all necessary data required for integration. Account-level settings - manage Planning & Self Study needs account-level permissi...

Creating an Alignment to a Measure The first step of pulling Canvas data into Planning & Self Study is to create a Measure against an Outcome.  Once this is complete, Alignments can be created, to connect the Measures to Rubrics or Activities in Canvas.  The steps below are divided by type:   Adding an Alignment to a Rubric Adding an Alignment to an Activity Adding an...

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   Using the Overall Rubric Score With this method, ...

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 following steps outline how to define the met criteria for each type of activity alignment.  Point-Based Activities Navigate to the activity alignment section, and select "Define Met Criteria". Enter the r...

A cross-listed course is a single course that is offered as part of a track or curriculum by multiple disciplines, potentially under multiple departments.  The Advanced Canvas Integration accounts for cross-listed courses. If multiple courses are cross-listed into a course shell in Canvas, the data for those courses will still be linked to the original course sections t...

If your institution is part of a consortia/shares an instance of Canvas with other institutions or systems, you will need to set up the Canvas integration at a Sub-Account level so that only data for your institution will be pulled in. You will need two separate Canvas Accounts to establish the integration. One is a Canvas Admin Account created at the sub-account level ...