Several actions define participation in Canvas and collectively describe events where a user takes an action within a module. We track participations for both students and instructors, and we report participations in Canvas Module Analytics for just student participations.

The following student actions will generate analytics module participation:

Announcements: posts a new comment to an announcement
Assignments: submits an assignment
Collaborations: loads a collaboration to view/edit a document
Conferences: joins a web conference
Discussions: posts a new comment to a discussion
Pages: creates a page
Quizzes: submits a quiz
Quizzes: starts taking a quiz

You can click on Units to look through the other helpful guides on how to use Canvas discussions, quizzes, conferences (Big Blue Button), Panopto for pre-recording lecture content and Microsoft Teams to support your teaching.