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Progress Tracking in Ultra Course View

Progress Tracking in Ultra Course View

This article is for instructors who want to enable progress monitor tools for instructors and students in their Ultra course.

Enabling Progress Tracking

For instructors and students to utilize the progress tracking tools in Ultra, instructors need to enable progress tracking in their course.

  1. From your course page, click Course Settings in the top-right corner.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Couse Main Page, Course Settings on the right top

     

  2. Scroll down to the Progress Tracking section and toggle the button to green to enable the setting.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Progress Tracking

     

Click the sections below to expand them.

Learning Modules, Folders, and Content (including Documents, videos, readings etc.) can have the following statuses: Unopened, Started, Marked Complete.

  • Unopened - indicates that a student has not clicked on this item

  • Started - indicates only that a student has clicked on the item… it does not represent any further level of engagement

  • Marked Complete - indicates that a student has manually clicked “mark complete” on the item

Because there is no submission associated with these content types, they can only have the “Marked Complete” status if students manually mark it as such. Students may/may not know that they can/should do so without instructor suggestion. We recommend providing guidance to students on using Ultra Progress Tracking features.

  1. To check student progress for a content item, module or folder, locate item. Click 3 dots, and then select Student Progress.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Student Progress option available

  2. The Progress Summary page, shows the progress of all students for that specific item. The Progress Status menu (shown below) allows you to search by student name or sort students by progress status.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Search bar in the Progress Tracking

  3. The Progress Summary page also allows you to message a set of students based on their progress status with that particular content.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Message Button

Progress Tracking for Assignments and Tests is different than Content since students are required to make submissions. As such Assignment and Test progress is tracked both in terms of:

  • Student Activity (Unopened, Opened, Draft started, Submitted)

    Screenshot of Blackboard Student Activity

  • Grading Status (Nothing to Grade, Needs Grading, Needs Posting, Completed)

    Screenshot of Blackboard Grading Status Filter

  1. To check student progress for an Assignment or Test, click 3 dots, and then select Student Activity.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Student Activity Access

  2. From this page, you can view the Student Activity tab and Submissions tab.

Progress Tracking for Discussions is similar to Content in that students must also manually mark their progress as complete. However because it is an assessment, progress is considered student activity.

Screenshot of Blackboard Student Activity from the three dot icon

Journals do not have progress tracking tools at this time.

  1. Under the Details and Actions menu, under Roster, click “View everyone in your course”.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Details and Actions

  2. From the Roster page, click the name of the student whose activity you wish to view.

  3. By default, it will open the Grades tab for that student. Click Progress to view which items the student has started and/or completed.

    Screenshot of Blackboard Progress tab

 

For more information or assistance with HuskyCT, please contact the Educational Technology Office at edtech@uconn.edu or (860) 486-5052