Hi all
This is something we are looking at, too (running BB Learn 9.1 SP6 in one pilot School, Vista still running elsewhere at the moment).
I have seen some interesting stuff about Astro - we were planning to look into this a little more, so the comment earlier about it not working with certain types of course names is disheartening. We've tentatively mentioned Business Objects to one of our reporting teams, so this is something we might go forward on too.
We are currently on Managed Hosting, but will not be after January, meaning it doesn't make much sense to invest too much time in this until we are self-hosted again.
Does anybody have a method of reporting on tool usage, system wide? If so, it'd be great to hear from you.
Additionally, Joseph - the SQL you mentioned sounds interesting; could you tell me more, offlist?
Thanks all
Alex
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joseph Gliddon
Sent: 24 November 2011 10:33
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Subject: Re: Usage stats
I dont have anything to do with stats in my current post.
But at the last place I worked I did lots, I found the best way was to
design queries to run against the Blackboard database.
As I was the only one with access I could make sure that it wasn't
affecting performance.
Things we did
Both for the whole college and for individual faculties
Users, Sessions, hits (dropped hits after a while as it wasn't particularly
useful) grouped by month.
Instructors, Instructor sessions, (hits) by month
Number of "active" courses by month and year
Users that access particular tabs by month
I also did something about number of courses using different tools which
proved quite interesting as it can show adoption rates of different things
(ie everyone is adding materials, most are using announcements, a
significant number are using assesments and a small amount using wikis and
blogs)
I found it useful to map the % of active courses using a particular tool
against Rogers adoption curve - that could then give me an idea of the type
of training we should be doing on it.
I have the SQL if people are interested (you WILL need access to the
Blackboard database - and having some idea of SQL yourself will help)
Regards
Joseph
--On 24 November 2011 09:42 +0000 Tyrone Knight <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear Jo
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> We currently don't extract much statistical data, as I have been doing
> a lot of housekeeping to get our Blackboard into the right place for
> potential stats to mean more.
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> We are managed hosted, are you?
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> We have now been prompted to use their new ASR process
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> I log daily usage figures, which isn't exact and only checked how many
> users logged in, which does tell me how many times or for how long.
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> I am finding identifying users to be an issue, for example HE / FE, due
> to the natural of how tutors have combined course areas set up. But I am
> looking into institution roles and now the hierarchy option.
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> Regards
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> Ty
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> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Jo Mrs
> (ITCS)
> Sent: 23 November 2011 15:55
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Usage stats
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> One of the things we are looking into at UEA is getting better usage
> stats out of Blackboard, I don't mean item or course statistics but
> overall VLE statistics.
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> I was wondering if anyone has experience of using the 'BbStats' or
> 'Project Astro' building blocks to get that type of information?
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> If you aren't using one of those building blocks, what methods do you
> use to get usage statistics? Has anyone done much with the Open Database
> initiative?
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> I'd also be really interested to hear how other people report upwards
> about the level of VLE adoption.
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> Many thanks,
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> Jo
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> p.s. we are on Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP6
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