Canvas: View the course access report for an individual student

You can view the course access report for an individual user in the People section of your course. The course access report shows a summary of user participation in your course. Note: The access report is part of a course permission. If you cannot see some of these columns in the report, you do not have access to view them.

Open People

Course navigation People tool
 

Locate the individual student you would like to view the access for. Click the student's name.

Student name in People

From the User Details Sidebar (right side of screen), click the student's name.

Student's name
 

Click the Access Report button.

Access Report

The Access Report shows:

  1. The content the user has viewed.
  2. The number of times the user viewed the content. A view is counted each time a user navigates to the URL where the content resides or downloads an attachment.
  3. The number of times the user participated (if applicable, such as posting to a discussion or submitting an assignment).
  4. The last time the user viewed the content.
  5. To return to the User Details page, click the Back to User Page button.
 
Canvas view user access report
 



Keywords:
Canvas, Access Report, analytics, page views, participation, 
Doc ID:
104282
Owned by:
Lexi S. in UW Stout
KnowledgeBase
Created:
2020-07-23
Updated:
2026-06-08
Sites:
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