This article will cover Webinar recordings, videos and additional training material on the below Blackboard Student Performance & Adaptive Release topics:
- Monitoring Student Performance in Your Blackboard Course (SELF-PACE COURSE)
- Using the Adaptive Release – Review Status feature to release content to your students (VIDEO)
- How to apply the Adaptive Release to Group Tests (VIDEO)
- Using Review Status with Blackboard Content (VIDEO)
- Blackboard Support on Adaptive Release (STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS)
- Blackboard Support on Performance Dashboard (STEP BY SETP INSTRUCTIONS)
Monitoring Student Performance in Your Blackboard Course
Monitoring Student Performance Self-Pace Course
This self-paced course is designed to help you learn ways monitoring (tracking) your students' performances within your Blackboard course. The following topics are covered in this course:
- Lesson 1: Preparing for Success
- Identify and remove common roadblocks to learning.
- Evaluate your assessments to see if they fit the needs of your course.
- Help students understand the evaluation process.
- Adjust test settings to make tests more robust learning tools and ensure academic honesty.
- Create surveys for feedback from students.
- Lesson 2: Grade Center Basics
- Navigate the Grade Center.
- Sort and hide rows and columns.
- Use the Column Organization page to freeze columns and rearrange the Grade Center view.
- Lesson 3: Grade Center Advanced
- Create calculated columns.
- Configure the Total or Weighted Total.
- Create categories to group related columns.
- Explain grading schemas and edit the letter grade schema.
- Lesson 4: Working with Grades
- Locate items to grade using the Needs Grading page.
- Assign grades in the Grade Center.
- For manually scored test questions, assign grades by question.
- Grade anonymously.
- Use the inline assignment grading feature.
- Monitor student progress with smart views.
- Enable and determine settings for grading color coding to help gather information quickly.
- Lesson 5: Retention Center
- Access the Retention Center and identify the elements, including the functions in the risk table.
- Create rules based on course activity, grades, course access, and missed deadlines.
- Delete and restore rules.
- Use the information in the Your Course Activity section to monitor your activity, engagement, and participation in your course.
- Individually monitor students who are most at risk.
- Create rules to acknowledge high-performing students.
- Send email notification to users based on alerts.
- Lesson 6: Troubleshooting Student Performance
- Use the Performance Dashboard to provide a quick view of student activity.
- Generate user statistics and Grade Center reports.
- Identify issues that may contribute to non-participation and provide remedies.
- Generate course reports showing overall usage.
If you would like access to this self-pace course, please email ittraining@ric.edu requesting access to the course.
Using the Adaptive Release – Review Status feature to release content to your students
By the end of this video, you better understanding on the following topics:
- How to release content such as an exam or assignment to your students once they have read a document, watched a video and etc.
- How to apply the adaptive release review status on components within your course
- How your students will a mark a particular component such as an item or video as "Done"
How to apply the Adaptive Release to Group Tests
This video will show you how to do the following:
- Create your manual group sets and add students to the groups
- How to apply an adaptive release membership criterion to your deployed tests, so that only students of the specific group can access the test
- How will your students mark a particular component such as an item or video as "Done"
Using Review Status with Blackboard Content
This video will show you how to do the following:
- The benefits in enabling the Review Status on a Blackboard component such as an Item or Web link
- How to enable the Review Status on a Blackboard component such as an Item or Web link
- How students mark the component as done
- How the instructor can track the students’ progress
https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/SaaS/Tools_Management/Adaptive_Release
https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Performance/Performance_Dashboard