Student Engagement Report

The Student Engagement report helps you understand and answer: 

• Course Access
  • How many students are active or inactive in courses?

  • What proportion of students has been recently active?

  • What's the frequency of student access to courses?

  • What courses have the most student engagement?

• Engagement with Course Content 

  • How much do students engage with course content? 

  • What’s the minimum, maximum, and average student time in course content? 

  • What’s the student distribution by time in course content? 

  • What’s the student time in content by course item type? 

• Engagement with Assessments

  • How timely do students complete course assessments? 

  • How does assessment completion vary per assessment type?

  • How does assessment completion vary per Institutional Hierarchy Node?

  • How do Institutional Hierarchy Nodes compare in regards to student engagement with assessments?

  • How do courses compare in regards to student engagement with assessments?

  • How do students compare in regards to engagement with assessments?

  • How do students compare in regards to engagement with assessments?

     

Data Source: Blackboard Learn, Class Collaborate. 

Use Controls 

You can use the Controls section to filter and refine the data shown in each report tab based on your needs. Each tab has a specific set of Controls or filters you can use. You can always go back and reset your controls.  

Get a more detailed description of each control in our Anthology Illuminate Reporting Glossary Controls Section. 

Course Access

How many students are active or inactive in courses?

This donut chart shows active and inactive students in courses. Students are counted per course enrollment. 

Consider: 

• A single student may present different access and engagement levels throughout courses. For this reason, the data presented is per course enrollment, not per unique student.

Of the active students, what proportion have been active recently?

This donut chart shows recently active students and previously active students measured as a proportion of active student course enrollments. Inactive course enrollments are not included.

What's the student distribution by frequency of course access?

This histogram shows student distribution by frequency of course access counts the number of student course enrollments by the percentage of available days a student visits a course. The KPIs show the minimum, maximum, and average frequency of student access.

Consider: 

• Minimum, maximum, and average calculations include data points that differ significantly from other observations. 

What's the student distribution by recency of the last course activity?

This bar chart shows student course enrollments based on their recency of the last course activity. 

What's the distribution of active and inactive students per Institutional Hierarchy Node?

This stacked bar shows recently, previously, and inactive student course enrollments per Institutional Hierarchy Node within the filters you've selected.

What's the student engagement per course?

This table shows how student course enrollments engage with each course within the filters you've selected.

Are students engaging with courses?

This table shows individual student course access and engagement per course enrollment within the filters you've selected. Students are sorted by their first name in ascending order (A-Z) by default. This table has personally identifiable information; treat with care.

Consider: 

• You can use the link icon on the Email address column to send an email to a student. Once you select the link icon, you'll be redirected to your predetermined email configuration. 

Engagement with Course Content 

Are students engaging with course content?

This donut chart shows the number of student enrollments that are inactive, previously active, and recently active with course content within the filters you've selected.

Consider:

• Inactive is less than 5 minutes of total activity by student enrollment. 
• Previous activity is 5 minutes or more total activity by student enrollment, but less than 5 minutes total activity in the last 7 days.
• Recent activity is 5 minutes or more total activity by student enrollment in the last 7 calendar days.

Additional filter option:

Which engagement measure do you want to display?

Refine your dataset by the type of student engagement measure with course content you prefer to use.

• Total hours
• Total interactions
• Weekly average hours (median)
• Weekly average interactions (median) 

Student time in a course can include idle moments. Idle moments are periods in which a student remains logged in to a course or session while performing another activity—for example, browsing the internet or watching television. Taking this into account we recommend you consider time measures as contextual. One way to do so is to use time measures to compare a student to their peers. For actionable information on student participation use frequency of access, interactions, and submissions. For a success metric, you can use grades.

What’s the student distribution by engagement with course content?

This histogram shows the number of student enrollments grouped by a range of engagement with course content within the filters you've selected.

Consider: 

• Engagement is based on the engagement measure you selected in the additional filter option Which engagement measure do you want to display?

What’s the minimum, maximum, and average student time in course content?

Consider: 

• The average is calculated as the median. The median is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest.
• Minimum, maximum, and average calculations include data points that differ significantly from other observations. 
• Minimum, maximum, and average calculations are based on the engagement measure you selected in the additional filter option Which engagement measure do you want to display?

What’s the engagement by course item type?

This table shows how student enrollments engage with each course item type within the filters you've selected.

Consider: 

• This measure only counts active student enrollments.
• Engagement is based on the engagement measure you selected in the additional filter option Which engagement measure do you want to display?

How do Institutional Hierarchy Nodes compare in regards to student engagement with course content?

This staked bar chart shows how student enrollments engage with different course item types within the filters you've selected.

Consider: 

• This measure only counts active student enrollments.
• Engagement is based on the engagement measure you selected in the additional filter option Which engagement measure do you want to display?

What's the student engagement with content per course?

This table shows how student enrollments engage in each course with different course item types within the filters you've selected. This measure only counts active student enrollments.

Consider: 

• This measure only counts active student enrollments.
• Engagement is based on the engagement measure you selected in the additional filter option Which engagement measure do you want to display?

What's the level of engagement with course content per student?

This table shows how each student engages with course content within the filters you’ve selected. 

Consider: 

• This measure counts active and inactive student enrollments.

Engagement with Peers and Instructors 

Additional filter option: 

What interaction measure do you want to display? 

Refine your data set by the type of interaction measure you prefer when considering how much time students engage with course content.   

What’s the student distribution by student learning interaction count? 

Student distribution by student learning interaction count measures the number of clicks and page loads in social and collaborative learning activities, across all courses within the filters you’ve selected. Each bar in the chart corresponds to a range of values for student learning interaction count. The Y-axis represents how many students fall into each of those ranges. 

Consider: 

• Learning activities include discussions, blogs, journals, and wiki. 
• This measure only counts active students.  

What’s the student learning interaction count by tool type? 

Student learning interaction counts the number of student interactions by each type of interaction tool. 

Consider: 

• Learn more about Blogs in Blackboard Learn. 
• Learn more about Discussions in Blackboard Learn. 
• Learn more about Groups in Blackboard Learn. 
• Learn more about Journals in Blackboard Learn. 
• Learn more about Wikis in Blackboard Learn. 

What’s the minimum, maximum, and average rate of student participation in Class Collaborate sessions? 

Rate of student participation in Class Collaborate sessions is a measure of the percentage of time a student attends synchronous sessions on Class Collaborate in a course. The KPIs show the minimum, maximum, and average rate of student participation in Class Collaborate sessions.  

Consider: 

• The measure is based on an aggregate per course, of the duration in minutes, for Class Collaborate sessions in which both students and instructors were present. 
• If you don't use Class Collaborate, no data is shown. 
• This measure only counts active students.  

What’s the student distribution by rate of student participation in Collaborate sessions? 

Student distribution by rate of student participation on Class Collaborate sessions measures the percentage of time a student attends synchronous sessions on Class Collaborate in a course, across all courses within the filters you’ve selected. Each bar in the chart corresponds to a 10% band for the rate of student participation on Class Collaborate sessions. The Y-axis represents how many students fall into each of the bands. 

Consider: 

• The measurement is based on an aggregate per course,  the duration in minutes, for Class Collaborate sessions in which both students and instructors were present. 
• If you don't use Class Collaborate, no data is shown. 
• This measure only counts active students.  

You can see comparative levels of student engagement and identify best practices across Institutional Hierarchy Nodes and courses.

Consider:

• Only course assessments with due dates are included.
• The percentages are out of the total number of expected submissions in a course.
• This report only counts assessments expected for and completed by active students.
• Assessment types are blogs, assignments, discussions, discussion forums, discussion threads, journals, SCORM packages, tests, wikis, and so on.  

How timely do students complete course assessments? 

Identify the timeliness of assessment submissions by the main four categories: on-time, late, overdue, and upcoming. Course assessments include assignments, blogs, discussions, journals, tests, wikis, and so on.

How does assessment completion vary per assessment type?

Identify how many submissions expected and submitted by students are on-time, late, overdue, and upcoming in each assessment type.

How does assessment completion vary per Institutional Hierarchy Node?

Identify assessment completion between each of the children of the Institutional Hierarchy Nodes you’ve selected.

Consider:

• If there are more than four (4) node levels in your institution, anything below level four (4) will be shown as a combined string.

How do Institutional Hierarchy Nodes compare in regards to student engagement with assessments?

Compare student engagement between each of the children of the Institutional Hierarchy Node you’ve selected by average assessment accesses, average submissions per course and student, and completion status.

How do courses compare in regards to student engagement with assessments?

Compare student engagement across courses by identifying the number of active students per course, the percentage of students who have accessed and submitted assessments, average submissions per student and per type, and the submissions’ completion status.

Consider:

• The information shown is calculated within the days elapsed since the course started.

How do students compare in regards to engagement with assessments?

Compare individual student engagement by identifying accesses, total submissions, percentage of submitted assessments, and completion status.