Get insight into your students' activity
As an instructor, you can see when your students opened, started, and submitted tests and assignments with the Student Activity report. In general, this feature looks and functions the same whether you're working in an Original or Ultra course. In an Original course, you can also view student activity for Kaltura multimedia content.
More on determining your course view
View student activity for an assessment
- Inside your course, select the Content tab.
- Navigate to a test or assignment and select the arrow to the right of its name.
- Choose Student Activity.
- The Student Activity Details panel appears.
You can also view student activity for discussions. The discussion statistics are located in the Performance Dashboard, and are a valuable tool you can use to monitor student progress throughout your course. A summary table displays each student's history of access and progress.
Explore student activity details
The top of the page shows you an overview of information, including the course average submission time, time to open, time before due date, and submission activity for all students. The Grade Distribution shows the grades you've assigned to students.
The bottom half of the page includes individual student activity, including each student's names, activity timeline, and grade. You can view this data in two modes: grid view or chart view. The grid view displays an Activity Timeline in a visual, box-and-whisker plot graph. You can hover over the tick marks on the plot to see important markers of student activity, such as the date the student opened the assignment.
The chart view provides the same information as the graph, but each time detail is listed in separate columns with numerical data. If you want, you can choose to download the data for all your students. Select Download in the upper-right section of Student Activity Details.
Contact a student to follow up
In the Student Activity Details section, you can send a message to a specific student from the default grid view.
Select Message and send a message to one of your students. Invite the student to meet with you one-on-one or during office hours to discuss activity in the course.
On a smaller mobile device, you may need to select the More Options icon first before the Message choice appears.
Watch a video about Student Activity Report
The following narrated video provides a visual and auditory representation of some of the information included on this page. For a detailed description of what is portrayed in the video, open the video on YouTube, navigate to More actions, and select Open transcript.
Video: Student Activity Report
Access student activity for an assessment
In Ultra, you can access student activity data from the Course Content page. Select an assessment's dropdown menu and select Student Activity.
You can also access student activity data on an assessment’s page by selecting the Student Activity tab.
In Original, you can access student activity details by selecting the arrow menu beside an assessment on the Content page.
Student activity details aren’t available for anonymous graded assessments. When you turn off the anonymous grading option, the Student Activity Details Report for Assessments appears again.
Explore student activity details
The top of the page shows you an overview of information, including the course average submission time and time before due date.
Submission Activity
The Submission Activity section includes the number of students at specific stages in the assessment. The stages include:
- Unopened
- Opened
- Drafts started
- Submitted
Grade Distribution
The Grade Distribution line graph shows student grades.
The x axis represents grade ranges. Ranges are from the lowest to the maximum possible grade for the assessment.
The y axis is the number of students who received a specific grade.
Select any dot on the line graph to see more information about the students who received a grade in that specific range. Student grades are displayed as columns in a bar graph. Hover over the student’s column to see the student’s name, grade, and percentile.
To return to the Grade Distribution line graph, select the Back button.
Table and chart views
The bottom half of the Student Activity Details report includes individual student activity, including students’ names, activity timeline, and grade. Students who submitted the assessment late have a red circle around their profile picture and the associated submission text is red. Students with accommodations, such as being exempt from time limits or due dates on assessments, have a purple flag by their name. Visit the "Navigate Grading" topic to learn more about accommodations for assessments.
Chart view
The chart view displays an Activity Timeline in a visual, box-and-whisker plot graph. Hover over the tick marks on the plot to see important markers of student activity.
The Activity Timeline includes:
- Date opened
- Date started
- Draft saved
- Submitted
There are also columns for Attempts and Grade.
The chart view is unavailable on small devices and the Blackboard App.
Table view
The table view presents information in five columns.
The columns include:
- Student
- Date Opened
- Date Started
- Attempts
- Grade
Select the Download button to download the data as a comma-separated values (CSV) file for all your students.
The CSV includes:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Student ID
- Grade
- Date Opened
- First Attempt Start Date
- Last Attempt Submission Date
- Hours to First Access
- Hours to Submission
- Attempts
Contact a student
You can send a message to any student from either view in Ultra. Select the More options icon to send a message to one of your students. Invite the student to meet with you one-on-one or during office hours to discuss their activity in the course. In Original, the More options menu to send messages doesn't appear and you must use regular message options inside the course.
