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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources to monitor student online course engagement

As UMBC continues an emphasis on online classes during COVID-19/Coronavirus, we have a variety of reports and resources to ensure that students are engaged with the courses. The reports below will assist you in determining whether and how recently students are using Blackboard to access their courses. More detailed reports are available inside every Blackboard course.

If you feel that one of your Undergraduate students needs academic assistance, please consider referring them to the Academic Advocates via the Advocate Referral Form. DoIT is collecting information we need to assist students who may not have an appropriate device to use. In those cases submit a help ticket.

Learn more about resources

Welcome to REX

REX is the reporting and decision support environment for UMBC’s data warehouse.  The UMBC data warehouse integrates  data from systems throughout UMBC.  REX allows authorized faculty, staff, and institutional researchers to report and analyze University data.  REX provides a few ways for reporting data from the data warehouse.

Guided Reports
Pre-written reports which allow authorized users to change options to suit their needs.  These reports reflect the prior day’s information.
Exploratory Analysis
Advanced users can explore the data warehouse and create their own reports. This requires additional training and authorization, and is not intended for the casual user.  This data reflects the prior day’s information.
Institutional Research, Analysis & Decision Support
Official data frozen on census dates is available for internal or external reporting.
REX Finance
These reports reflect the prior day’s information from the PeopleSoft Finance system.
Data Dictionary
An off-campus service (currently Data Cookbook) that allows REX to collect descriptions and definitions for reports, tables and fields used within REX.  Their web site will use UMBC credentials, so you may be requested to login if you have not already.
Data Gallery
Data posters presented at the Annual University Retreat.

 

UMBC complies with the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). In general, FERPA serves to protect the privacy of student education records. Specifically, FERPA limits the release of any information from a student’s education record without prior written consent from the student. FERPA allows for the disclosure of those records, without consent, to school officials with legitimate educational interests. For more information on FERPA visit: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html.