What is Analytics?
Blackboard provides powerful analytics to monitor student performance and engagement throughout the course duration. Instructors can utilize the information provided to assist students who may be falling behind on assignments, not attending class, or failing to check the course shell.
To ensure accuracy in the data provided, faculty must ensure proper setup of the course, including due dates entered for all assignments and assessments, all graded activities to be completed in the course are represented in the Gradebook, and appropriate grading schema and point values accurately configured.
Analytics Reports
Below is a list of analytics & reports that can be utilized to monitor student activity and progress:
Discussion Analytics: Provides the instructor with insight into the student’s writing level and engagement with Discussion topics. The instructor can check factors such as sentence complexity, critical thinking, number of replies, and word variation.
Progress Tracking: A feature turned on by default in all courses and tracks what a student has completed in a course (see Student Progress). Module items are marked as completed, started, or not yet accessed.
Student Progress: Both the student and professor can view what course materials the student has accessed in each learning module.
Attendance Tracking: Monitor student attendance for grading or to watch engagement.
Student Activity: See the total time spent in a course by each student in correlation to their grade.
Course Activity: A view of student grades that highlights students to monitor in comparison with their peers. Can be used to identify “at-risk” students, allowing the professor to see the correlation between one’s grade, their time spent in the Blackboard shell, their time last accessed, and missed deadlines.
Question Analysis: Provides statistics on overall performance, assessment quality, and individual question response accuracy. Question analysis may be used to assist the professor in identifying overly complex or challenging questions for editing.