Way to access the Blackboard (Bb) Reports.

1. Login into blackboard.

2. Click on courses tab and you can find the respective course with its branch name.
3. Open your respective course.
4. On the left hand side of the page click On the Control Panel, expand the Evaluation section and
select Course Reports. (Fig: 1)

Fig 1: Course Report

5. On the Course Reports page, you find the Course Activity Overview Report, click on the arrow
at the end of the name and select Run. (Fig: 2)

Fig 2: Course Activity Overview Report

6. On the Run Reports page, select the Report Specifications. Options vary:

 Select a Start Date and Select an End Date: For reports that cover a specific
period of time, select beginning and ending dates for the report. To include data
from today's date, select the end date for tomorrow. Statistics are returned
based on a day that begins at midnight and ends at 11:59 PM. Statistics for the
present day won't be accurate up to the minute of the request. A short time
delay occurs based on the time it takes the database to record the activity. If the
data you want isn't in the report, wait a short while and run the report again.
(Fig: 3)

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 Fig 3: Select start date and end date

7. After a report is successfully process click on Download Report.

8. The report will get open in new tab, now you can download the report in Excel format by
clicking on Report Options on the right hand side of the page. (Fig: 4)

Fig 4: Course Activity Overview (of all the users in the course,
ready to download in excel format)

9. Scroll down the report tab below to check the per day user activity by the help of graph easily.
(Fig: 5)

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 Fig 5: Course Activity Overview (of all the users in the course via graph)

10. You can also check the performance of student in the course by clicking on progress bar under
Student Overview. (Fig: 6)

Fig 6: Course Activity Overview (of individual users in the course)

11. Repeat step 7 and 8 to check each user activity in the course.

12. Click on back to return to the step 7. (Fig: 7)

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Fig 7: Course Activity Overview (of single users in the course, ready to download in excel format)

Course Activity Overview displays overall activity within your course, sorted by student and date. Data
includes the total and average time spent per user and the total amount of activity the user had in the
course. You can also click an individual student’s name to access their Student Overview for Single
Course report. This report can help you determine which days of the week students are active in your
course and see how much time overall students spend.

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