LMS Course Progress Dashboard

The LMS Course Progress Dashboard utilizes data from the integration between Blackboard and Reach. It can also be used if an institution imports their own LMS data using the same LMS fields in Reach.

The dashboard needs to be added to the Reach application by the institution’s Reach administrator. For more information, visit the Anthology Academy and view the Reach: Creating System List Views, Charts, and Dashboards content.

The LMS Course Progress Dashboard provides an overview of student course performance and engagement data, in aggregate. Advisors can quickly see which of their students are at risk due to low grades, overdue assessments, and delayed login activity. They can also view average accesses and interactions data by course subject to get a sense of which types of courses have greater LMS engagement expectations.

Charts and Views in the LMS Course Progress Dashboard

The following charts and views are included in the dashboard:

• Students with Grades Below 70% (Column Chart): Shows the number of students (count of Academic Period Details) who have at least one LMS grade below 70%. The students are grouped based on the number of courses they have below 70% (1, 2, 3, 4, 5+).

  • The number of courses below 70% is a count of Course History records with a Projected Final Grade below 70% for a given Academic Period. A new field was created on Academic Period Details to store this calculation.

  • Clicking on a column in this chart will open a view with the students who have that number of grades below 70%. This can be particularly useful for triaging who may need immediate outreach and support.

• Overdue Assessments (Column Chart): Shows the number of students (count of Academic Period Details) who have at least one overdue assessment. The students are grouped based on the number of total overdue assessments (1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16+).

  • The number of overdue assessments in this chart represents a sum of Course History records with Overdue Assessments in a given Academic Period. A new field was created on Academic Period Details to store this calculation.

  • Clicking on a column in this chart will open a view with the students who have that number of overdue assessments. This can be particularly useful for triaging who may need immediate outreach and support.

Note: The first two charts are most useful if they are only displaying the current Academic Period. By default, the view is filtered to only include Academic Periods where the start date has past and the end date is in this year or next year. Due to limitations of Microsoft Dynamics filtering capabilities, in the Summer or Fall term, the Spring term will also display. In this case, an individual user can edit the filter to select a specific Academic Period. Alternatively, the institution could add a custom field in the Academic Period table to indicate if that Academic Period is Past, Current, or Upcoming, and then that field could be used as a dashboard filter instead.

• Students with Low Engagement Scores (Column Chart): - Shows the count of students with low engagement scores in 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5+ courses in the current academic period.

• Students by LMS Last Access (Column Chart): Shows the number of students (count of Active Contacts) by the date of their last access (session access, not course specific).

  • Easily identify students who have not logged-in in a certain number of days.

• Students with Grades Below 70% (View): Shows a list of students with course grades below 70%. If students have multiple courses below 70%, they will appear multiple times on this list.

  • Users can filter the Academic Period column to only view the current Academic Period.

• Student Engagement Scores (View): Shows student name, course name, academic period, engagement score, % change engagement score, and course history name.

• Average Interactions by Subject (Column Chart): Shows average interactions by Subject (a field related to Courses). This can reveal trends about LMS usage expectations for different subject areas at the user’s institution.

• Average Accesses by Subject (Column Chart): Shows average accesses (number of logins) by Subject (a field related to Courses). This can reveal trends about LMS usage expectations for different subject areas at the user’s institution.