Performance Dashboard

As with the Course Reports and Retention Center, the Performance Dashboard for any Blackboard course can also be accessed under the Evaluation area of the Blackboard Control Panel.

The Performance Dashboard provides an overview into all user activity within the course.  From this one area, instructors can monitor the following information (if you have each feature enabled within your course) about each user within a course.

(image taken from Blackboard Help's Performance Dashboard page)

• Date/Time of last course access
• Days since last course access
• Review Status - indicates how many items the user has reviewed if you use the review status feature
• Adaptive Release - clicking on the folder will display a new window with an overview of course areas (for which Adaptive Release is enabled) that a user has accessed (learn more about Adaptive Release at Blackboard Help's Release Content page) - the following symbols are used to indicate user access

• Discussion Board - clicking the displayed number opens a page displaying information about all discussion board posts from that particular user, including the total posts, date of last post, average post length, minimum/maximum post length, and average post position within each forum

• Customize Retention Center - displays number of rules a user has triggered out of the total number of retention center rules; clicking the displayed number opens a page showing Retention Center status for a particular user
• View Grades - provides a direct link to the Full Grade Center

Any of the columns can be sorted in in either ascending or descending order.  Clicking on the print icon will open a new window that displays information in a printer-friendly format.  

For a video overview of the Performance Dashboard, visit Blackboard OnDemand's Performance Dashboard tutorial.  For additional details, visit Blackboard Help's Performance Dashboard page.

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For additional assistance with Blackboard Reports and Evaluation, contact the TLC at tlc@icc.edu or (309) 694-8908, or visit us in room 240A on the East Peoria campus.

Next week our Blackboard Users' Group will meet in the TLC on Wednesday, November 4 at 12noon or Thursday, November 5 at 3pm - participants may attend either session.

Our November blog series will focus on collaboration tools (discussion boards, blogs, journals, and wikis).