Dorina Tila showed the group the various ways data can be gathered about students using Blackboard analytics. We reviewed:

Course reports:  one option is user activity. A report can be generated for each student that shows the number of times that have looked at different areas on the course’s BB site

Course Activity Overview: provides a summary of overall Blackboard activity for all students.

Retention Center: Retention reports are another useful feature.  You can create settings so that at-risk students can be notified of their course progress.

More detailed information about the steps to generate these reports can be found at:

https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Performance/Course_Reports

Our next meeting will be on November 7th at 12:40 in M391. John Acosta will show us how to run SCORM reports.