Blackboard has built-in reports that instructors can run to view information about course usage and activity. UND has also purchased an additional analytics product called Analytics for Learn. These reports combine extensive data from Blackboard with student and course attributes from our student information system (Campus Connection) to create comprehensive reports and dashboards for our students, instructors, staff, and leadership. These reports can be found in the Analytics tab of your course and then choosing the Premium Reports option.
Blackboard Analytic Reports
Blackboard has several analytic reports to help instructors monitor student performance in a course.
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Learn more about the types of student activity that can be viewed in the Activity Log.
Learn more on how Course Reports help with analyzing how course content aligns with goals and outcomes.
Learn how the Course Activity Report helps understand how well students are performing and interacting with a course. Other topics include accessing the report, guides to the different views, how to customize alerts, and more.
Learn how to see when students open, start, and submit tests and assignments using the Student Activity report. Other topics include how to contact students about their activity and the different views of activity available to instructors.
Learn how to view individual Student Activity Details for information such as student's hours in the course, changes in overall grade from week to week, and download the data for further analysis.
Additional Analytics for Learn reports found in the Premium Reports tab of Blackboard Ultra provide additional data to keep track of how students are performing in a course. This information can be downloaded for further analysis. The additional reports available include:
- Course At-a-Glance - Compares interactions, submissions, and time in course compared to similar courses in the same department.
- Activity and Grade Scatter Plot - A scatter plot of course activity and grades in a course.
- Activity Matrix - Compares student's number of submissions to the average across all students in that course.
- Course Submission Summary - Submission information for each student including assignments, tests, surveys, graded discussions, and graded journals.
Learn how to utilize Question Analysis to gauge student performance on graded assessments with questions. Other topics include how to access the Question Analysis, view/interpret the summary, how to download the analysis, and more.
Blackboard offers additional information on best practices to help students succeed, strategies for online teaching, and utilizing goals in courses.