UMBC faculty and staff may recall that DoIT used to publish a list of most active Blackboard courses for every term. However, we discontinued this after Spring 2013, when we completed our transition to Blackboard’s own Analytics for Learn (A4L) product that UMBC’s experience helped influence. A4L reports for students and faculty are now embedded in every Blackboard course, but there is nothing that provides a “bird’s eye view” of campus usage as a whole.

DoIT continues to leverage data associated with campus technology adoption by students to define and promote effective course design practices. Blackboard interactions (i.e., clicks on content) have been shown to be an effective proxy for user engagement that inform predictive analytics to support student success.

To highlight the instructors promoting outstanding student Blackboard use – and not as an indicator of course quality – we reinstituted this practice in Spring 2017 and are now publishing the top Fall 2017 undergraduate courses (graphic), by Blackboard student interactions.

Notably, there are several courses that appear on the most active list for both the spring and fall term, including those taught by the same instructor both terms (and indeed instructors who are on both list multiple times)!

Reports on campus-wide Blackboard use, including by college (informing the analysis in this DoIT New article), are available to all instructors through the REX reports at rex.umbc.edu. ]]>

UMBC faculty and staff may recall that DoIT used to publish a list of most active Blackboard courses for every term. However, we discontinued this after Spring 2013, when we completed our...

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UMBC faculty and staff may recall that DoIT used to publish a list of most active Blackboard courses for every term. However, we discontinued this after Spring 2013, when we completed our transition to Blackboard’s own Analytics for Learn (A4L) product that UMBC’s experience helped influence. A4L reports for students and faculty are now embedded in every Blackboard course, but there is nothing that provides a “bird’s eye view” of campus usage as a whole. 

To highlight the instructors promoting outstanding student Blackboard use, we are publishing the top Spring 2017 undergraduate courses (graphic), by Blackboard student interactions.

Notably, during the Spring 2017 term, 6 of the top 20 courses using Blackboard were in the Psychology department, and a quarter of all of the courses were taught by former Alternate Delivery Program (ADP) participants.

Reports on campus-wide Blackboard use, including by college (informing the analysis in this DoIT New article), are available to all instructors through the REX reports at rex.umbc.edu.
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As campus technology adoption by students continues to expand, DoIT is able to gather data that might inform effective course design practices, including Blackboard interactions (i.e., clicks on...

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