Course Statistics

Blackboard tracks student usage of your course, and posts these results in the course statistics area. You can choose several different reports to gauge how students are using your blackboard course. You can create a report of the overall summary of course usage, access by content area, access by groups, and access by forum. You can limit this report to a specific date range, and even further to a specific student’s usage of the course. For example, you can create an overall summary of usage report for student x between February 15 and March 15.

Course statistics will create a pie chart of areas accessed, how many hits each section received on the days accessed, what time of day the sections were accessed, and what day of the week the course was accessed.

Once the report has been created, you can print the report, export the data or change the parameters to alter the view to get other information.

To check the stats in your class.

1. Control Panel > Course Statistics (from Assessment pane)
2. Choose to report by Content Area, student Group, or Discussion Forum.
3. Choose the start and end dates for the report, if appropriate.
4. Choose to list statistics for all students or specific chosen individuals.
5. Submit.
6. Atop the report page, you may:
   • Change the previously chosen Filter elements to change the report.
   • Print the page to your local or network printer.
   • Export the Data to a .CSV file, readable in programs like MS Excel.