Assessment: Course Statistics

Blackboard is able to track each user as he or she moves through a course site. You can use the Course Statistics feature to see which areas of your course site are used most intensively, when students access the site and even whether or not a particular students has accessed the site at all.

To Access Course Statistics:

From Control Panel

1. In the Assessment panel, click Course Statistics.

2. Choose the parameters of the search you wish to conduct. Begin by selecting a type of report: Overall Summary of Usage, Accesses by Content Area, Accesses by Groups, Accesses by Forum.

3. Choose a date range.

4. Choose the users that you wish to track. You can choose to see data for all the users in the course, or you can select spenific students.

5. Click Submit.

Export Statistics

You can export your course statistics as a .csv file and open it in a spreadsheet or statistics program.

1. Create a Course Statistics report by following the instructions above in the section titled "To Access Course Statistics"

2. When the results appear, click the Export Statistics button at the top of the page.

3. You may see a message box asking your permission to change the file extension to .csv. Click OK.

4. Click Save and save the file to your hard drive.

5. Open the .csv file in the spreadsheet or statistics software of your choice.