Bb Grade Center: Smart views

Case Study

Joe wants to identify students who perform poorly on the first exam. To do this, he can quickly create a Smart View to filter students by score. In this case, Joe wants to identify students who earned less than 20 points out of 40 points possible on the first exam.

Here's how Joe creates and sees this smart view:

Go to Grade Center
Click Manage and select Smart Views

The user clicks the menu and then select Smart Views.

On the Smart Views screen, click Create Smart View

Create Smart View button on the Smart Views screen

In Section 1, enter a name such as "Exam 1 - Poor.
For Description (optional), describe the Smart View, such as "Less than 20 points on Exam 1."

Create Smart View screen with Name and Description entered

To immediately add this smart view to the Grade Center menu in the Control Panel, add a checkmark to the Add as Favorite checkbox.
In Section 2, instructors can select what type of view is needed. For this case, Joe selects "Performance. View specific users based on their performance on a single item" since Joe only wants to see information about a specific test.
For Select Criteria, choose the User Criteria required. For this case, Joe will choose Grade on Unit 1 Exam (Score).
For Condition, Joe will select Less than.
For Value, Joe enters 20.
For Filter Results - Columns to Display in Results, Joe selects Selected Columns Only and from the list, he selects Unit 1 Exam.

The selection criteria has been chosen for this case.

Click Submit

On the Smart View page, the new smart view is listed. The smart view can be further modified or removed from this screen.

The smart view titled Exam 1-Poor is displayed on the Smart View screen.

Click OK.

Using a Smart View

Since Joe made this Smart View a favorite, he can access it from Grade Center section in the Control Panel.

Exam 1- Poor smart view is shown on the Control Panel under Grade Center.

Or, any Smart View can be accessed from the Grade Center main page using the Filter button..

On the Grade Center main page, click Filter.
When the Filter menu opens, mouse over the Current View menu, and click the Smart View you would like to see.

A list of students who meet the Smart View's criteria (e.g., score on Unit 1 Exam is less than 20 points) will be displayed.

In the example below, note that the Current View of the Grade Center is Exam 1- Poor. Two students are listed since they meet the criteria from the Smart View (a score below 20/40 points).

A screenshot showing the Current View has changed to Exam 1 Poor. Two students are listed because they have scores less than 20 out of 40.

To return to the Full Grade Center view, mouse over the Current View menu and select Full Grade Center.

As described above, Performance allows an instructor to look at performance criteria on a single item such as an exam.

Other Smart Views allow other criteria to be examined:

Course Group: select a group which was previously created in the course.
User: focus on individual students.
Category and Status: Based on category, such as Assignment or Test, user or users, and grade status, such as Completed or Not Attempted.
Custom: This query combines the other views. The instructor may select from a list of student attributes, scores, conditions, and specify multiple search criteria. This view includes a formula editor.

Creating Smart Views (Blackboard 3:30 video tutorial)

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