About the assessment

  • Response Rate: 19%
    • Participants: 1112
    • Invitees: 5814
  • Date range: May 27, 2015 – June 12, 2015
  • Two email notifications sent: 5/29 (initial) and 6/12 (reminder)


Please indicate how easy or difficult it was to use Canvas to accomplish each task

S15-Post-Students-Q1

  Easy to use Somewhat easy to use Not easy to use Didn’t use Total
Find my courses 557 276 90 172 1095 
Look up information in the course space 472 377 176 78 1103 
Look up my grades/scores 550 293 85 175 1103 
Read and/or participate in class discussions in the online forums 403 289 119 291 1102 
Read messages sent to the class 361 349 161 232 1103 
Take quizzes 311 176 42 577 1106
Turn in assignments 599 241 77 186 1103 
Watch recorded lectures 300 186 63 551 1100 

How would you rate the overall ease of use of Canvas?

S15-Post-Q2

Responses %
Easy to use 502 46%
Somewhat easy to use 480 44%
Not easy to use 113 10%
Total 1095

Do you think that the use of Canvas had an impact on the quality of the class?

S15-Post-Students-Q3

Responses %
Yes, positive impact 412 37%
Yes, but negative impact 117 11%
No 218 20%
No opinion 355 32%
Total 1102

Given your experience with Canvas, if you had the opportunity to take the exact same class/instructor but had to choose one system, which would you choose?

S15-Post-Q4

Responses %
EEE 365 33%
Canvas 357 32%
Doesn’t matter to you 379 34%
Total 1101