A number of faculty use the Course Reports function in Blackboard to produce general reports about the activity of students in their courses, such as when and how frequently they have visited content areas, viewed content items, etc. But did you know that in the new version of Blackboard, you can generate a report that provides even more granular information, including, for example, how much time a student has taken to complete an exam or weekly quiz?
When you navigate to the Course Reports area of your course (Control Panel/Evaluation/Course Reports), you can generate reports on the global activity of all of your students by running an All User Course Activity Overview report or generate a report on the global activity of an individual student by running a Course Activity Overview report or an Overall Summary of User Activity report.
However, for more detailed and potentially-useful results, you can run a Student Overview for Single Course report on a selected student. With this report, you see how many times a student has accessed a content area, content folder, content item or assessment, and you see as well how much total time that student has spent in each.
Of course, to read this information accurately, it is necessary to “read between the lines.” For example, the report may indicate that a student spent only .02 hours in a content folder that contains a long and detailed module lecture, but it is quite possible, in this case, that the student spent just a minute or two to print out the content in order to read it, and then exited that content area. Similarly, a student may have spent only 0.01 hours inside a folder containing a test, but that student also spent 1.6 hours taking the test inside of that folder.
You can use the following link to view a tutorial on how to create and use Course Reports in Blackboard: Course Reports. And as always, please do not hesitate to contact the Distance and Online Learning Office (629-7070/DLHelp@hvcc.edu) for additional information or any questions that you may have.
Published: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:54:54 +0000 by m.petersen