Blackboard Course Analytics and Course Activity
As you monitor student performance in your course, you can ensure all have an opportunity for success.
In the traditional classroom setting, you can determine if students grasp the material through nonverbal cues, facial expressions, participation, and hand raises. In your online course, you can assess student performance with a collection of Blackboard Learn tools.
Start early. Use the tools to establish a baseline of student performance. This baseline is invaluable as you compare it to how your students perform throughout your course. You'll see patterns and recognize when you need to help at-risk-students succeed and prevent high-performing students from getting bored.
Student performance also provides insight into the overall design and effectiveness of a course.
The Course Activity report helps you understand how well your students are performing and how much they are interacting with your course.
All roles with the privilege to view grades can access the Course Activity report. Turn on the Overall Grade feature to enhance your experience with the Course Activity report. You can:
- Identify struggling students based on their overall grade, missed due dates, the number of hours they spend in your course, and the number of days since their last access
- Message students who are falling behind and encourage them to increase their course activity
- Congratulate students performing well in your course and ask them to be mentors
- Customize your course alerts to identify struggling students when their overall grade drops below a specific value, they've missed due dates, or they haven't accessed the course for a certain number of days
- Download the table view to a CSV (comma-separated values) file to analyze the data with other tools
- Download the scatter plot as a PDF or image to share information with other instructors or mentors of the course
The report provides you with analytics for your students’ performance in your course. You can view a student’s hours in course and changes in overall grade from week to week. The report makes it easy to see when a student’s hours in course drops or if a student begins to earn lower grades. Report data is updated every 24 hours in the early morning.
You can use the report to guide and inform your instruction in many ways.
- Identify struggling students, students who are improving over time, or students whose grades start trending downwards
- Message students who are falling behind and encourage them to increase their course activity
- Congratulate students performing well in your course and ask them to be mentors
- Set up an appointment with all students in the course to follow-up on strategies to improve student performance and activity
- Download the table view to a CSV (comma-separated values) file to analyze the data with other tools or share student reports to other faculty members if needed
- Download the line charts as a PDF or image to share information with other instructors or mentors of the course
Analytics for Learn provides these reports:
- Course at-a-Glance: Interactions, submissions, and time in course compared to similar courses in your department.
- Activity and Grade Scatter Plot: A scatter plot of your course activity and your grades in the course.
- Activity Matrix: This report compares each student's number of submissions to the average across all students in that course. The report includes a graph of submission trends over the entire term, number of submissions, the average number of submissions in the course, days since the student's last submission, and last submission type.
- Course Submission Summary: Submission information for each student including assignments, tests, surveys, and graded discussions, and journals..