Use the Canvas Accessibility Instructor Dashboards

Canvas instructors have two types of dashboards.

The course dashboards, which has accessibility data for each individual course.
The My Dashboard, which has accessibility data for all courses an instructor has access to.

Each of these dashboard types has widgets to help see where accessibility issues are and take you right to where you can fix them.

In this article, you’ll learn how to access each of these dashboards and how to use their widgets:

Access individual course dashboards
Individual course dashboard widgets
Access My Dashboard
My Dashboard widgets

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Access individual dashboards

In the global navigation, select Courses. Then, select a course.
In the course navigation menu, select Pope Tech Accessibility.

You’re now on that course’s dashboard.

Individual course dashboard widgets

There are three widgets on the individual course dashboard. Let’s go over each.

Accessibility Scorecard

This widget shows the total errors and alerts in the course, the change in errors and alerts in the last 30 days, the total alerts and errors in each accessibility result category, and access to dismissed results.

Select any of the accessibility result categories to view all the errors and alerts in the course related to that category.
Select Details >> for the error or alert you want to focus on. This page has a list of all the content blocks in this course that have this issue.
Select Open to go straight to the Canvas content with the Accessibility Guide open, so you can fix the issue. Or, select Details >> again to see a detailed view of the result.

30 Day Trend

This widget is a quick way to know if your course’s accessibility has improved or had regressions in the last 30 days.

Resources

These resources are meant to help instructors new to accessibility and those who are coming back to it. They cover what accessibility is, web accessibility training, and tips for getting started.

Content Blocks

The Content Blocks widget breaks down how many errors, alerts, documents, and videos are in each content block in the course. A content block can be a page, syllabus, quiz, assignment, or discussion.

Optional: Change the filters in the top right and select Apply.
Select Details >> for the content block to see its accessibility results, or select Open to go straight to the Accessibility Guide to edit that content block.

Issues Over Time

A chart that shows how alerts and errors have changed. The default is week-to-week, but it could be changed to daily, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. You can also set the start and end date. In the top right, you can adjust to a table view and customize the data on the chart.

Access My Dashboard

Access data for all your courses by selecting My Dashboard in the top navigation.

All courses dashboard widgets

The all-courses dashboard has four widgets. Let’s review each of them.

Results per course

Drill down by a specific error or alert, and view the number of courses you have access to.

Select errors or alerts.
Optional: Adjust filters.
Select Details >> for the specific error or alert.
Select Details >> for the specific course.
Select Details >> for the content block to see its accessibility results, or select Open to go straight to the Accessibility Guide to edit that content block.

Most common issues

The most common issues widget shows the errors and alerts that happen the most in all the courses you have access to.

Select one of the most common errors or alerts.
Select Details >> for the specific course.
Select Edit to go straight to the Accessibility Guide to edit that content block.

Documents and Videos

Review how many documents and videos there are across all courses. Select View All to go to the Documents and Videos dashboard.

Courses

The Courses widget is a list of all the courses you have edit access to. Select Details >> for the specific course to go to that course’s dashboard.

Customize the Courses widget using the column selector icon.

Looking for more? Here’s Pope Tech’s Canvas Documentation for the Accessibility Guide and Dashboards.