Summary
Learn how to access and navigate the Brightspace Insights Portal to view powerful analytics and reports that support student success. This guide walks instructors through the steps to open dashboards, interpret data, and leverage insights on engagement, performance, and course activity. Whether you're tracking learner progress or evaluating course effectiveness, this article will help you make the most of Brightspace’s reporting tools.
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Introduction:
The Brightspace Insights Portal offers a suite of dashboards and reports designed to help instructors monitor and improve student engagement, performance, and course effectiveness.
How to access the Insights Portal:
- 1. Log in to Brightspace.
- 2. Click on More > Insights Portal.
- 3. Select the report that you want to access.
- Engagement Dashboard
- Identifies at-risk and high-performing students.
- Tracks course access, time spent in content, and assignment progress.
- Helps instructors take timely action.
- Learner Engagement Dashboard
- Provides detailed metrics for individual learners across multiple courses.
- Includes assignment status, course history, and activity trends.
- Assessment Quality Dashboard
- Evaluates the effectiveness of quizzes and quiz questions.
- Useful for instructional designers and educators to improve assessment reliability.
Important: To view only student data in the dashboards, open any report, click on Settings, and under Role Filters, select the Student role. This ensures that only student-related information is displayed.
Tips:
- • Use the Engagement Dashboard to identify students who may be struggling or disengaged.
- • Use the Assessment Quality Dashboard to evaluate quiz and question performance.
- • The Learner Engagement Dashboard provides a detailed view of each student’s progress across courses.
- • Filter results by role and semester to reduce clutter and ensure you're analyzing the right data.
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