 EAC

This feature lets you connect specific learning goals or standards to individual rubric criteria in Blackboard Ultra. By aligning goals within your rubric, you can more easily measure and report on student achievement of key learning outcomes.

After Goals have been entered into Blackboard, course instructors, instructional designers and system administrators can make alignments directly to an assessment (assignment, discussion, journal or test) for accreditation purposes.

You can create a rubric, associate it with an assessment, journal, or discussion, and then use it for grading in your Blackboard course..

This article will walk you through how to create an offline assignment with a rubric in Blackboard Ultra.

This FAQ aims to address common questions and provide guidance on using Blackboard's EAC Visual Data solution more effectively.

This article contains EAC Visual Data release notes for updates that have been applied to GVSU's Blackboard Learn Ultra learning management system (LMS).

EAC Visual Data is the reporting tool for Blackboard's Assessment and Accreditation solution that seamlessly integrates into Learn Ultra to provide visualizations and robust analytics on rubric and test reliability. Some of the key functionality that EAC can provide includes individual student performance data on each row of a rubric's criteria and the overall reliability of a course's rubrics and tests for evaluating students.

Score a student's assignment submission with a rubric in Blackboard Ultra.

After Goals have been entered into Blackboard, course instructors, instructional designers and system administrators can make alignments to rubric rows and test questions. Since Goal alignments are typically reserved for accreditation purposes, please contact you Department coordinator/chair before making any Goal Alignments.

EAC Visual Data allows instructors to download and print rubrics used in their Learn Ultra courses for easier review, sharing, or record keeping. Rubrics can be exported as PDFs or Excel files, making it simple to view the full set of criteria, scores, and performance levels outside of Blackboard.

The EAC Rubric Report provides a detailed view of student performance on rubric-based assessments. You can explore results by overall scores, individual criteria, and grading patterns, and export the data for reporting or further analysis.

The EAC Goals Report provides an interactive way to view and explore student performance on selected learning goals. You can filter results by course, assessment, student, or term, and customize how achievement levels are displayed. The report can also be downloaded for further analysis or reporting.

This article will walk you through how to score an offline assignment using a rubric in Blackboard.

The EAC Visual Data tool has a Goals Manager area that allows instructors and assessment teams to view the existing alignment of goals to rubric rows or individual questions and to Edit, Add, or Remove alignments to rubric rows or individual questions. Since goal alignments are typically reserved for accreditation purposes, please contact your Department coordinator/chair before making any Goal Alignments.