How to set up courses for assessment

Step 1: Decide which option you are doing for assessment

1. Do you have SLO rubrics?
2.  If no, you are doing the “case-by-case” option below. 
3. If yes, answer question 2.
4. Will you be using the SAME ASSIGMENT in multiple sections of a course to assess an SLO?
5. If no, you are doing option “Independent” option below.
6. If yes, you are doing option “Standardize” option below.

 

Standardized option

Description: The key assignment is pre-loaded with outcomes and is pushed out to all sections.

Setup

1. Submit this form to create a development blueprint
2. Ensure Educational Effectiveness has created your outcome rows in Canvas.
3. Create the assignment in the blueprint, which will be used for assessing the SLO
4. Create a grading rubric for that assignment

-watch this tutorial on creating a rubric in Canvas

1. Find   your program outcome that is being assessed with this assignment
2. Add that outcome to your grading rubric (Pro tip: make sure “use this rubric for grading” is checked)

- watch this video to see how to do steps 5 and 6

Deploy

1. Remind all professors teaching sections of this class to use that rubric to grade/assess that assignment

Assess

1. After the semester is over, go to intelligent insights  “ask your data” 

 

Independent Option 

Description: There may be multiple sections of a course, but you don’t control the assignment in other professors’ sections of that course. Or you only teach a single section of this class, so don’t need a standardized option (above) at this time. You will be doing a report called "learning mastery"

Setup

1. Ensure Educational Effectiveness has created your outcome rows in Canvas
2. Find the assignment in your current version of your course, which will be used for assessing the SLO
3. Ensure there is a grading rubric for that assignment

-watch this tutorial on creating a rubric in Canvas

1. Find   your program outcome that is being assessed with this assignment
2. Add that outcome to your grading rubric (Pro tip: make sure “use this rubric for grading” is checked)

watch this video to see how to do steps 4 and 5

1. In course settings—>feature options, ensure that “learning mastery” is enabled

Deploy

1.  Use that rubric to grade/assess that assignment

Assess

1.  After the semester is over, go to gradebook, and click “grade book” dropdown menu, and select “learning mastery gradebook”.  See the Outcomes report for your class section  

-click this video to see how to use "learning mastery gradebook" views. 

 

Case-by-case Option 

Description: You don’t have SLO rubrics at this time.

Implement

1.  Consult your purple card “criteria for success” in Weave to see what benchmark you set. What assignment did you plan to use? How did you plan to measure student achievement? 

2.  Work with Educational Effectiveness to find a plan for assessing this outcome.