FAQ

ObservEd is an LTI that sits in its own course. This means you will need to be added to the course by an ObservEd admin. Once enrolled, you can navigate to the course in Canvas, and select ObservEd from the Canvas course menu.

No! Your student performance data remains safely in Canvas, where it belongs.

• ObservEd is a Canvas LTI tool that pulls real-time student data and displays it within your Canvas instance.
• ObservEd users have the option of downloading ObservEd Reports in a CSV format, which would take the data outside of Canvas, but only users who can (1) authenticate to your Canvas instance and (2) have been enrolled in the ObservEd class can do so.
• Cidi Labs only stores the Student's name and Canvas User ID. We do not store grades, submissions, or any other course performance data.

ObservEd will not notify students if they have been added to ObservEd for monitoring; however, if an Observer reaches out to a student using the Send Message feature, students will see a line of text at the top of the message indicating that it was sent by the Observer's name from the ObservEd tool.

Students who have been added to ObservEd generally know they must meet specific grade requirements to compete or participate in their extra curricular activity.

ObservEd includes a Sample Data Mode that any user can activate. This mode hides the private, real student data, and provides fictitious data instead. This mode can be activated through the User Setting page.

Yes! Each message will be sent individually to each unique student for privacy.

ObservEd courses are determined by the students and terms you are tracking. Admins can add or remove as many Canvas terms as they would like to, and ObservEd will display data for all courses a student is enrolled in, across those terms. You cannot select specific courses to track.

Current and concluded enrollments are part of the data, so you can get a holistic view of student trends. 

Unless the teacher has been added to ObservEd, they will not see this data in the ObservEd interface.

Yes! Quizzes and Graded Discussions are included in the Assignments we pull into ObservEd.

Participation data is determined by interactions on any part of the course including interactions, discussions, submissions, etc. This is a metric that is tracked by Canvas.