Measurement and Assessment Tools
Assessment plays a critical role in the online learning process. Monitoring a student's understanding and progress within the subject in person is often difficult. The Learning Environment includes an unparalleled suite of measurement and assessment tools to evaluate user outcomes and perform formative and summative evaluations of the effectiveness of instructional programs.
Competencies
Competencies provide standardized assessment across courses and allow your organization to formalize program or degree requirements for certification or accreditation. The Learning Environment facilitates easy tracking of user progress by leveraging the organizational structure to share competencies across multiple courses. Competencies and learning objectives can be assessed at the organization, program or course level through quizzes, dropbox assignments (individual or group), discussions, grades, and surveys. The results can also be manually entered to meet any type of assessment appropriate to your institution. The competencies tool offers the power and flexibility to model competencies of any degree of complexity with an intuitive setup wizard.
Rubrics
Rubrics enable your organization to define transparent assessment criteria and create structured feedback. The Learning Environment supports qualitative and quantitative rubrics with unlimited achievement levels, empowering you to create assessment mechanisms to any degree of precision. You can use rubrics to manually or automatically evaluate performance on activities that are linked to competencies and learning objectives through a variety of course tools including quizzes, dropbox assignments, and discussions.
Quizzes
Users can be assessed using the quizzing tool, which includes a complete toolkit of question styles that can be adapted to any pedagogy. Quiz questions can be created with varying difficulty and randomized within a quiz. The consolidated question library empowers you to store questions in a common location where they can easily be shared across quizzes or reused in self assessments and surveys. To ensure quality, you can preview quizzes before releasing them. Share quizzes across multiple courses and compare outcomes between classes by leveraging your organizational structure.
Self-Assessment
The self assessment tool enables users to test their comprehension of course material and receive immediate feedback. Self assessments support the full range of questions available in quizzes and can be quickly assembled by reusing questions from the consolidated question library shared with the quizzing tool.
Survey
Capture valuable course or organization-wide feedback from your user community with the survey tool. The survey tool supports anonymous responses to ensure accurate and honest feedback, integration with course content, and a comprehensive range of standard question types, combined with the ability to email custom invitations and specify the number of responses. Use the tool's convenient built-in reports and statistics to analyze results, or export data to an external system for advanced analysis.
Reporting
The Learning Environment's powerful reporting features put a world of data at your fingertips. Choose from a diverse array of graph options (bar, line, etc.) and output settings to help identify important patterns from a range of data sets. System-level reports enable site administrators to monitor system performance, usage, user enrolment, logins and other vital data to ensure the system operates at peak efficiency. Course-level reports integrated into Learning Environment tools empower staff to assess the effectiveness of their instructional materials and monitor use of course content, participation in discussions, performance on quizzes, and a variety of additional activities.
