Accessing Blackboard Student Activity Log

Issue/Question

How do I, the instructor, view activity of a specific student within my course?

Environment

  • Blackboard Ultra
    • Gradebook

Cause

Instructors may need to verify certain activity for a specific student within course. Student Activity logs (within Gradebook) provide the following on individual students:

  • Timestamps & activity details for accessing the course as a whole, course documents & Discussions
  • Assessment-specific start & submission logs:
    • Individual student assessment start & submission timestamps
    • Attempt time length, final grade, and submission receipt ID
Information on generalized student activity within a specific assignment can be found here.

Resolution

  1. Navigate to Ultra course in Blackboard.
  2. Click Gradebook tab.
  3. Click Students tab.
  4. Click the name of the student in question.
  5. Click Activity Log.
  6. If needed, click Download to download a CSV file of this log information.
    To access the Assessment submissions log:
  7. Click the bar graph icon in the assessment submission row, within the Attempt Log column.
The Student Activity log can take up to 20 minutes to update from the last time a student performs an action.
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