Assessing Learners

Use Grade Center, surveys, assignments and course report to help measure your students' progress.

The UB Learns Help for Students website has information for students about viewing grades and feedback.

The Office of Educational Effectiveness website has additional information on grading and assessing students in virtual environments.

  • Assignments
    5/28/21
    Assignments allow students to submit files to the instructor. SafeAssign is now integrated into assignments.
  • Course Reports
    3/18/20
    Course Reports provide several different ways to view information about student activity, content usage, course standards and course objectives.
  • Grade Center
    5/26/21
    The Grade Center is a dynamic and interactive tool, allowing you to record data, calculate grades and monitor student progress.
  • Grade Center and HUB Grading
    5/28/21
    Upload your UB Learns grades to HUB.
  • Interactive Rubrics
    5/28/21
    Organize and display evaluation criteria.
  • Panopto Quiz
    7/1/21
    Use the Panopto Quiz tool to create a video quiz and have the grades automatically uploaded to your UB Learns course.
  • Performance Dashboard
    5/28/21
    Provides an up-to-date report of student participation, progress and grades.
  • Remark Grade Import
    5/28/21
    The Remark grade import tool allows machine-graded, bubble-sheet style exam scores to be directly imported into UB Learns Grade Center.
  • Respondus Assessment Tools
    8/18/21
    Respondus tools can be used to deter cheating in non-proctored exams in UB Learns as well as create and manage test questions.
  • Retention Center
    5/26/21
    The Retention Center is an instructor-only tool that enables you to give focused attention to students who need it. It replaces the Early Warning System feature with easy workflows while retaining all existing Early Warning System data and rules.
  • SafeAssign
    5/28/21
    SafeAssign is now integrated into Blackboard Learn assignments. SafeAssign allows students to submit files to the instructor and checks submissions for originality.
  • Self and Peer Assessment
    5/28/21
    Students evaluate peers and themselves using instructor criteria. Anonymous evaluations are an option.
  • Surveys
    5/28/21
    Gather ungraded data, including anonymous student data.
  • Tests
    5/28/21
    Make sets of questions that are graded to measure student performance.

Need additional help?

Use our contact form to submit a help ticket (you may be asked for your UBITName and password). After the form is submitted, a member of the UB Learns support team will follow up with you within one business day.

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