Student progress tracking; Assessments

3 Mar 2025

Ultra Focus – Progress tracking 

The Progress Tracking tool coming in Blackboard Ultra helps students track the content or activities they have accessed. Students can manually check-off resources as complete, supporting self-directed learning. Course coordinators can easily monitor student engagement with individual course resources (Echo360, 3m 17s). 


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Can students easily locate assessments on your course site? 

To make your assessment and related resources easy to locate, it is recommended to create a separate folder for each individual assessment within the Assessment area. Within each folder, the first item should be the submission link, followed by the relevant student instructions. 

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Respect at UQ training module

Students commencing at UQ in Semester 1, 2025 will be required to complete the mandatory ‘Respect at UQ’ training module by 5pm on Sunday 16 March 2025. Please be aware that students who have not completed the module by this time will have their Blackboard access removed until they complete the module, during which time you will be unable to mark any assessment work submitted by affected students within your course. 

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Setting up groups for learning, assessment and peer evaluation 

The Groups tool in Blackboard allows you to facilitate group tasks and assessments. Allocate+ groups are automatically created in Blackboard at the start of semester.  For peer evaluation, use Buddycheck to collect and moderate student responses on the contribution of their group members. 

View the Group Peer Assessment guide (Original) >>

View the Group Peer Assessment guide (Ultra) >>

Student understanding of assessment types 

The Types of Assignments module (within the Digital Essentials series) introduces students to different assignment types, resources and tools. It is designed to be embedded into courses so students can find the information they need, when they need it. 

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Student engagement with lecture recordings 

Echo360, our platform for video capture and storage, provides analytical data to help you monitor student engagement with lecture recordings. Staff can access the number of views on individual recordings including course, student, and engagement data. 

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See the guide (Ultra) >>

What's on

eLearning training (self-paced)

eLearning training (Zoom)

Other events and course

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Teaching and learning support

eLearning support

For technical support with central eLearning tools, email eLearning support

eLearning Advisers

To receive pedagogical advice from UQ's leading teaching technology experts on using our central eLearning tools, including how to select and configure learning technologies, book a Zoom consultation with an eLearning Adviser.

Workshops

Self-paced online workshops are available for a variety of systems and tools. eLearning advisers are available to deliver custom workshops in your school or faculty. Organise a custom workshop.

Teaching support

ITaLI staff are available to offer pedagogical advice. Please contact itali@uq.edu.au or book a 30-minute Zoom consultation.

Learning Designers

For faculty or school-level support, please refer to the list of Learning Designers in your area. 

 

 

 

 

 

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