Learner Progression & Personalized Experience 

Student Activity Log – 3900.100 

Blackboard Learn SaaS 
Ultra Course View 
Impact: Instructors 
Related Topic: Student Activity Log

Instructors often need to review student activity. Student activity helps inform decisions in academic disputes and aids in troubleshooting. You can also analyze the course participation of students at risk. 

Instructors can use student participation to support financial aid decisions. For example, requests for tuition fee reimbursements if a student hasn't participated in a course. Course participation records can also help with awarding scholarships. 

Now the Student Overview page has a student activity log. Instructors and other higher roles can use the report to check what a particular student did in a course. 

Image 1. Student activity log report located in the student overview page

Student activity log, showing all student activities. There's a download option at the top right.

The Activity log can be filtered by event type and can look to the past 140 days. Any information older than that won’t be stored in this report. The log can take up to 20 minutes to update from the last time a student performs an action. 

The following events can be found in the report: 

  • Course Access 
  • Assessment Started 
  • Assessment Draft saved 
  • Assessment Submitted 
  • Assessment Auto-submitted 
  • Discussion Access 
  • Discussion Draft saved 
  • Discussion Edit 
  • Discussion Reply 
  • Discussion Response 
  • Document Access 
  • Journal Access 
  • LTI Item Access 
  • SCORM item Access 

For administrators: A new privilege is available to control role-based access to the student activity log report. Go to Manage Privileges, choose the role you want to add the privilege to, and then select "Course/Organization > Student/Participant > Activity Log."

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