Brightspace Tip #108: Class Progress

The Class Progress tool helps track student progress in a course by measuring their completion of 9 different progress indicators. The Class Progress tool tracks students' overall progress as a class and individually. Instructors can use the Class Progress tool to do any of the following:

• Monitor progress for any or all users in the course
• View user profiles, email users, or instant message users
• Track when a user accesses the course and downloads course content
• Track a user's grades, completion of learning objectives, access of content topics, participation in discussions, assignment submissions, quiz submissions, checklist completion, survey responses, and login history
• Prepare progress reports
• Set up Intelligent Agents for users who are falling behind in a course

Instructors can customize the Class Progress page to make it easier to track and compare the performance of class participants.

Students can use Class Progress to keep track of all of their course-specific assignments and feedback.

Follow these steps to do it.

To access the Class Progress page, you should:

1. On the NavBar, click Course Admin.
2. Click on Class Progress.
3. Click on a student’s name or one of the progress indicators to get more information about the student's progress.

To email or instant message a student from the Class Progress page, you should:

1. On the Class Progress page, roll your mouse over the student’s profile picture (avatar) and click on the Send Email or the Send Instant Message button.

To change the Class Progress settings, you should:

1. On the NavBar, click Course Admin.
2. Click on Class Progress.
3. On the Class Progress page, click Settings.
4. From the context menu of the indicator you want to replace (i.e., the arrow on the right of the performance indicator name), select Replace.
5. In the Select Progress Indicator dialog box, click on the progress indicator that you want to use as a replacement.
6. To replace more progress indicators, repeat the previous steps.
7. From the context menu of a progress indicator, select Move Up or Move Down to rearrange the order in which it appears in Class Progress.
8. Click Save and Close.

Want more information?

Class and User Progress Quick Start Guide
Track Class progress
Understand and Modify the Class Progress page (video)

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