Discussion board in Blackboard provides analytics for both ungraded class level discussion and graded discussions.
Class level discussion (Ungraded)
You can access discussion analysis for the entire class by selecting the Student Activity tab on the discussion’s page. You can also access discussion analysis from the Course Content page by selecting Student Activity in the More options menu for a discussion.
If it’s a group discussion, information is displayed by the group and you can select which group to view from the Group menu at the top.
The Student Activity page summarises your class’s discussion participation.
You can view:
- Number of active students out of the entire class
- Average posts per student
- Average word count
- Average discussion grade
- Percentage of students who’ve participated
- Percentage of students who’ve opened the discussion
There’s a section displaying students who haven’t participated. You can select their name to send them a message about their participation, or message the entire group of non-participants by selecting the envelope icon to the right.
Responses with the most replies are displayed so that you can view what responses students engaged with the most. Select the response to go directly to the discussion thread.
Top participants are displayed on the page. Select the student to go to their individual discussion analysis page.