Managing a consumer

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Managing a consumer#

Click on a consumer’s name to see more detailed information about it.

Page headed "Manage Canvas test". Links to "Visit this consumer's homepage", and a table of contexts, showing for each a time period, a link to the context, and the number of resources and attempts. Underneath are buttons to "manage time periods" and "delete this consumer".

The consumer management view.#

The management view lists all contexts provided by this consumer. Contexts usually correspond to courses in a VLE - all resources launched from the same course will appear under the same context here. Click on a context’s name to see all resources in that context.

Time periods#

Time periods allow you to group a consumer’s contexts by when they were active. You could use this to group contexts by academic year, for example.

Click on the Manage time periods button at the bottom of the consumer management page. Each time period has a name and start and end dates.

Page headed "Manage time periods Canvas test". A table with columns "Name", "Start" and "End".

Managing time periods.#

Each context is assigned to the latest time period containing the date on which the context’s first resource was created. If a context falls into a gap between non-overlapping time periods, it will be shown separately.

Time periods are used solely to group contexts in the display. If you change or delete a time period, no data will be lost.

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