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Course Summary Report

The Course Summary report is a holistic report about a single course that provides insight into student and instructor behavior in a course.

Some terminology used within the report can be expanded in our Glossary.

Data Source: Blackboard

Use Controls

You can use the Controls section to filter and refine the data shown in each report tab based on your needs. Each tab has a specific set of controls or filters you can use. You can always go back and reset your controls.

Note

Find a detailed description of each control in the Controls section of our Glossary.

Course Overview tab

Provides high level statistics about the course and metadata:

  • Enrollments per role

  • Class size

  • Submissions vs. grading turnaround time

  • Alternative formats usage

Student Engagement and Performance tab

Provides information about how students are engaging with the course and how students’ performance on grades correlates with time spent in the course or type of activity:

  • Learning accommodations in the course

  • Time spent in course per week

  • Top course item types by interactions and contributions

  • Student engagement with course content

  • Student performance (grades) vs. activity (interactions)

  • Student engagement and performance per student

Instructional Practice tab

Provides a detailed view of the instructional practices in a specific course based on the course design, Instructor-Student engagement, and student success:

  • Time spent in course per week

  • Instructor-Student engagement ratio

  • Instructors grading time

  • Engagement per instructor

Course Design tab

Provides an understanding of how this course has been designed based on the item types used and their usage over time:

  • Course design compared to courses

  • Content usage over time

To help you navigate this report:

  • Date Range: when you select a specific date range, that timeframe only applies to visualizations marked with this icon: ️

  • Institutional Hierarchy: if there are more than four (4) node levels in your institution, anything below level four (4) will be shown as a combined string.

    • When your institution doesn’t count with Institutional Hierarchy, you’ll see some visualizations data referred to as ‘No Hierarchy’

  • Visual filtering: some of the visualizations count with visual filtering to easily highlight data. Learn how to use visual filtering.

    • If you use visual filtering to see only information about one of the top 5 roles in the course, the whole report will highlight only that role’s data.

  • Roles: when showing information about roles: Student, Instructor, Teacher Assistant, etc., the additional or non-identified roles are grouped into Other.

  • Assessments: only course assessments with due dates are included.

  • Send an email: you can use the email link in the Send Email column (in the table at the bottom of each tab) to email a student or instructor. Once you select the link icon, you'll be redirected to your predetermined email configuration.