{"id":22195,"date":"2021-01-13T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=22195"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:39","slug":"does-canvas-allow-faculty-to-track-students-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/13\/does-canvas-allow-faculty-to-track-students-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Canvas allow faculty to track students online?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-700x391.jpg\" alt=\"montage of computer monitor, camera, phone, eye, question marks\" class=\"wp-image-22196\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-700x391.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-665x372.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter.jpg 894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(U-M Dearborn News\/Violet Dashi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning management systems like Canvas allow faculty to see some student activity. <a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/does-canvas-allow-faculty-track-students-online\">But UM-Dearborn\u2019s Coordinator of Digital Education <strong>Chris Casey<\/strong> says it\u2019s far from being a surveillance system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rumor he hears most often is that faculty can see if students open other browser tabs or websites outside of Canvas. \u201cThis one is definitely false,\u201d Casey says, noting that Canvas doesn\u2019t have that capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">However, faculty can see some kinds of video viewing activity in Canvas. If it&#8217;s a YouTube link, for example, the instructor can\u2019t see which students have watched it. \u201cBut if they use the integrated video system in Canvas to, say, post a lecture, faculty can see which students have viewed it, how much of the video they watched, and if they rewatched a video,\u201d Casey says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other big myth he often hears is that faculty can see if students have posted on Chegg, an educational technology website students have been known to use to cheat on assignments and exams. But Casey says Canvas does not allow faculty to directly correlate a student account with a student\u2019s Chegg account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning management systems like Canvas allow faculty to see some student activity. But UM-Dearborn\u2019s Coordinator of Digital Education Chris Casey says it\u2019s far from being a surveillance system. The rumor he hears most often is that faculty can see if students open other browser tabs or websites outside of Canvas. \u201cThis one is definitely false,\u201d Casey says, noting\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/13\/does-canvas-allow-faculty-to-track-students-online\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[257,121,549],"class_list":["post-22195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-canvas","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter.jpg",894,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-200x112.jpg",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-768x430.jpg",665,372,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-700x391.jpg",600,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter.jpg",894,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter.jpg",894,500,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-665x372.jpg",665,372,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/canvastracking_reporter-400x250.jpg",400,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Learning management systems like Canvas allow faculty to see some student activity. But UM-Dearborn\u2019s Coordinator of Digital Education Chris Casey says it\u2019s far from being a surveillance system. The rumor he hears most often is that faculty can see if students open other browser tabs or websites outside of Canvas. \u201cThis one is definitely false,\u201d&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22199,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22195\/revisions\/22199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}