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Kyron Analytics

Instructors can find learner analytics in the Kyron Insights and Assignment tabs. Kyron Insights shows learning, engagement, and misconceptions across every Kyron assignment in the course. Opening a Kyron lesson from Assignments shows the same kinds of analytics for that one lesson, including each student’s individual conversations.

Kyron Insights

Kyron Insights shows instructors how students are learning and engaging across the Kyron assignments in their Canvas course. Use it to spot students who may need support and concepts that need reinforcing.

To access this feature, select Kyron Insights from the course navigation menu. Only teachers, TAs, and admins can see it. Insights include every student who has started at least one Kyron assignment.

Kyron Insights course overview

Overview

The Overview tab summarizes the whole course: Learning signal (how well students are understanding the material, based on their responses in Kyron activities), Engagement signal (how actively students are taking part), Assignment completion (average progress among students who have started), and Assessment score (average score on assignments that include an assessment).

Below the summary, Kyron assignments lists each assignment's progress and signals. Select an assignment to open its own Overview, Misconceptions, and Students tabs, along with its Lesson activities. Select an activity to see how students did on that activity.

Misconceptions and Students

The Misconceptions tab lists the misconceptions students expressed across the course. Select one to see which students were tagged with it and whether they completed its review.

Misconceptions tab

The Students tab lists every student with the number of misconceptions tagged, the number of assignments started, and their learning and engagement signals. Use it to find students who may need a check-in.

Students tab

Why it's useful

Kyron Insights helps you move from seeing how students are progressing to understanding where they may need support. Start with the course overview, then use the Misconceptions and Students tabs to decide which topics to reinforce and which students to check in with.

Assignment Insights

You can also see insights for a single assignment on its Canvas assignment page. Use it to see how students did on one specific lesson, which activities gave them trouble, and exactly what each student said.

To open it, select Assignments from the course navigation menu, then select a Kyron lesson assignment. The page shows the lesson title and description, with three tabs: Overview, Misconceptions, and Students.

Assignment Overview

Assignment Misconceptions

Assignment Students

Overview

The Overview tab summarizes the lesson:

  • Learning signal: how well students are understanding the material, based on their responses in Kyron activities. It’s shown on a scale from weak to strong. Select Learn how signals are calculated for more details.

  • Common misconceptions: the misconceptions that came up most often in this lesson, most common first, with how many times each came up. Select View all misconceptions to see the full list.

  • Students in need: the students with the lowest learning and engagement signals in this assignment. Select View all students to see everyone.

  • Students started: how many students have started the lesson.

Common misconceptions and Students in need

Misconceptions and Students

The Misconceptions tab lists every misconception students expressed in this lesson. For each one, it shows:

  • Total tags: how many times it came up

  • Unique students tagged: how many students expressed it

  • % students who completed review: the share of tagged students who finished its review

Select a misconception to see more detail.

The Students tab lists every student who started the lesson. For each student, it shows:

  • Misconceptions tagged

  • Activities completed (for example, 3 of 8)

  • Learning signal and Engagement signal

Use it to find students who may need a check-in. Select a name to see that student’s detail.

Lesson Activities

Below the summary on the Overview tab, Lesson activities lists each activity in the lesson (for example, Question 1, Question 2, etc.) with:

  • The number of students who started it

  • Average completion

  • Learning signal

  • Engagement signal

Students started and Lesson activities for one assignment

Select an activity to see its details. These include the misconceptions students expressed in that activity and a Students list of everyone who started it, sorted with the lowest signals first. For each student, the list shows misconceptions tagged, number of attempts, and their learning and engagement signals.

Assignment Students list

Student Detail

Select a student’s name to see how they did in that activity:

  • Learning signal and Engagement signal for that student

  • Misconceptions: each misconception the student expressed, how many times it was tagged, and whether they completed its review

  • Attempts: each time the student worked through the conversation, with the date, time, and status (for example, Completed). Expand an attempt to read the full conversation between Kyron and the student.

Student detail signals

Student Misconceptions

Student Attempts

Use the breadcrumb at the top of the page to go back to previous pages, such as the lesson or its Students list.

Why it’s useful

Lesson assignment analytics let you go from how the class did on a lesson to exactly where and why individual students struggled. Start with the Overview, then use the Misconceptions and Students tabs and each student’s conversation to plan targeted follow-up.

Canvas Setup

This section is for Canvas administrators. The Course Navigation placement must be configured in your Kyron LTI developer key before Kyron Insights appears in the course navigation menu.

First-time Kyron LTI setup

If you are setting up Kyron's LTI integration for the first time, no additional action is needed. The JSON configuration URL provided by Kyron already includes the required Course Navigation placement, so it is added automatically when you create the developer key.

How to Update an Existing Developer Key

  1. In Canvas, go to Admin > Developer Keys.

  2. Find the Kyron Learning developer key and open it for editing.

  3. Choose the Method select at the top and select Paste JSON.

    Developer Key configuration methods

  4. Copy the configuration JSON from https://app.kyronlearning.com/studio/settings/integrations (under LTI Settings, click Copy the configuration JSON instead)

    Canvas Deep Link URL and JSON information in Kyron Learning

  5. Paste the JSON you copied into the LTI 1.3 Configuration box

    LTI 1.3 Configuration JSON

  6. Save the developer key.

  7. Reload the course. Kyron Insights should now appear in the course navigation menu.

Course Navigation placement settings

Need Help?

If you have trouble updating the developer key or don't see Kyron Insights after completing the setup, contact the Kyron Learning support team.

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