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Course Statistics Including Attendance


If you want to document student attendance in a Blackboard course, follow these steps:

1. Log onto Blackboard at http://bb.elmhurst.edu.

2. Under Courses you are teaching, click the link of the desired course.

3. Click the "Control Panel" button (the bottom-most button located to the left of the screen).

4. Click the Control Panel and then the "Course Statistics" link.


5. The "Course Statistics" page will appear:


6. Blackboard lists course statistics from the time the course was created. To obtain the course statistics, you must choose a particular range of dates. If you choose a range from January 7, for example, when students are added to your course, until January 15, and click "Submit," you will see a new "Course Statistics" page. Scroll down to No. 2, Access/Date until you see a table that you can then paste into a text box in the Course Information section of your course. Note that in the image below the "Course Statistics" page has been compressed to display only the information that you need and not the graphics displayed in No. 1 and at the top of No. 2. You will scroll below to see the course statistics with student names and dates of attendance.


*Prior to checking the course statistics, go to your course course and create a folder titled "Attendance Record" in the Course Information section. Then inside the folder add an item and title it Jan 7-14 attendance. Note that the "Course Statistics" page usually displays one day earlier than the last date that you requested, depending upon the time of day that you obtain the statistics.

Then in the course Course Statistics page, obtain the course statistics table as described above, drag your mouse across and down in the course statistics table and right click on the selected text and click "copy." Note: you must be using the Blackboard Text Editor available in Blackboard 6. If you have turned it off, be sure to turn it back on in the "Personal Information" link in the "Tools" area of your course.


Then scroll to the top of the screen and click the link to the "Control Panel" and return to the "Course Information" section and enter the "attendance record" folder. At this point, either create the new item or enter the item you have already created within the folder, click the "paste" icon in the text box, and then click "submit." Do this each week throughout the course to create a series of attendance"tables."

 

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This page was last modified 10 July, 2006 by Jennifer Paliatka .