Teaching Tip: Use data, reports to see what students are doing

December 9, 2014

Marissa Carl

An incredible amount of effort is put into online and flipped courses, but how do you know if students are engaging? If you’re curious to see how often or how long people are listening, reports and data help.

On Blackboard, Course Activity Overview is the perfect place to begin. It is an overview of user activity shown visually. You can drill down into more data by clicking on some of the images, and you can download the numbers in a spreadsheet.



How? Go to Blackboard Course Management, Evaluation, Course Reports. When you see “Successful Run: Course Activity Overview” click “Download Report” for the data.

Read the full tip on iTeachU to learn how to get data from SoundCloud and YouTube as well: http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/tt-data-tracking.

-- Teaching Tip by Janene McMahan, UAF eLearning instructional designer.