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Education Analytics
Education Analytics Involved Product
Blackboard Analytics
- Functionalities
- Student Management Suite. Improve Student Outcomes and Optimize Resources. Identify at-risk populations for early intervention. Align recruiting strategies and institutional aid awards with enrollment and retention objectives. Discover vital new insights into your student population. Manage course loads and class utilization. Help allocate resources more effectively. Blackboard Analytics™ offers two product modules that work together to support the challenges of the academic affairs and enrollment management offices: Student Management and Financial Aid.
- Student Management. With the Blackboard Analytics Student Management module you’ll have easy, self-service access to data that can help you make significant improvements—from developing more effective recruiting strategies and creating proactive retention plans to monitoring and influencing performance. Find out exactly what’s working and what needs to be improved in every aspect of the student information lifecycle: Effective Recruiting, Strategic Enrollment Management, Course Optimization, Performance Management, Student Retention, Early Intervention, Outcomes Management, Graduation
- Financial Aid. With the addition of our Financial Aid module you’ll have access to an integrated data set of financial aid, admissions, and enrollment data for targeted analyses to: Determine which combinations of student need and academic credential achieve the best admission yield; Better allocate financial aid to achieve the optimal yields; Track the status of the financial aid workflow; Understand how retention varies based on financial aid award patterns; Align offer strategies with retention objective.
- Analytics for Learn. Blackboard Analytics for Learn™ combines the extensive data from Blackboard Learn™ with student and course attributes from your SIS/ERP to create comprehensive reports and dashboards for your students, instructors, staff and leadership.
- Students. Get them engaged by giving them information to monitor their performance in courses and compared to peers. Student dashboards from Blackboard Analytics for Learn can be accessed by the students in their Blackboard Learn courses.
- Instructors. Give them a better, faster way to get to data that can help them help their students. Course dashboards and other reports from Blackboard Analytics for Learn are available to instructors in their Blackboard Learn courses.
- Staff and Leadership. With Blackboard Analytics for Learn, you have easy, self-service access to data that can help give you an enterprise-level perspective. Gain insight into user activity, course design and student grade and learning outcome data across departments and colleges, enabling you to improve your use of the Blackboard Learn platform in support of teaching, learning, and student success.
- Get Answers to Your Most Important Questions Like:
- What student activities are correlated to desired outcomes like grades and course completion?
- How can I easily find students who are at-risk?
- Who are the most innovative instructors?
- How are students performing on learning outcomes over time?
- What strategies to improve the quality of course design and instruction result in better student performance? Instructor training courses? Course reviews?
- Which tools are being used in courses the most? The least? Which are most effective to enhance student engagement & success?
- How many logins, time on task, and other metrics have occurred over time?
Canvas Analytics
- Functionalities
- What will Analytics tell me about my course?. Analytics include four main areas: student activity, assignments, grades, and student analytics. They will show you how well your students are interacting with your course and help you evaluate performance.
- View Activity Analytics
- View Assignments Analytics
- View Grades Analytics
- View Overview of Student Analytics
- Sort Student Analytics
