Assessment Process

The Course Selection Process

1. The Learning Outcomes Assessment office gathers all courses that are mapped to an ELO for the semester. Being mapped to an ELO simply means faculty and Counterparts have identified that a course has an assignment that applies to an ELO, and have mapped the course by updating Official Course Outlines in CIM.

2. Next, all CRNs for those courses are compiled and a random selection are chosen to submit student work, which will now become known as artifacts. Artifacts are exact, ungraded copies of student work that will be assessed for ELOs after the semester ends. It does not affect the student grade in any way.

Faculty Experience

3. Faculty are then notified well in advance of the start of the semester that their CRN has been chosen. Faculty are given instructions on how to align the assignment to the ELO. They can also collect their assignments in an ELO Blackboard site. There are also instructions regarding verbiage for their syllabi, and creating/uploading the assignment in case they don’t usually use Blackboard. CLOA members reach out to each individual faculty member to help them align, choose and upload the assignment.

4. Faculty upload the assignment to Blackboard as they usually would. The only difference is adding the alignment (a few short clicks). They inform students to submit the assignment as they normally would. The student experience is exactly the same whether the assignment is aligned or not.