Measurement and Assessment
Assessment plays a critical role in the online learning process. Desire2Learn® Learning Environment includes an unparalleled suite of easy to use measurement and assessment tools to evaluate outcomes and perform diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments.
Measurement and Assessment Tools
Quizzes
Our robust Quizzing tool includes a range of delivery options and question styles that can be adapted to any pedagogy. Questions can be created with varying difficulty and randomized within a quiz. The Question Library stores questions in a common location where they can easily be shared or reused. Quizzes and questions can also be created and managed using third party tools. Quizzes, question sets, and individual questions may be aligned with learning objectives and standards to measure progress towards course goals.
Survey and Self-Assessments
Our Survey tool provides valuable course or organization-wide feedback. The Self-Assessment tool enables you to test users' comprehension of course material and receive immediate feedback. Surveys and self-assessments support the full range of questions available in quizzes and can be quickly assembled by reusing questions from the consolidated Question Library.
Dropbox
The Dropbox provides learners a convenient way to submit individual and group assignments from a computer, directly from their Locker, from ePortfolio, or by recording audio or video. The Dropbox tool then gives instructors the ability to manage these submissions; provide written, audio or video feedback; view and markup documents inline; and grade or assess assignments using rubrics, all from a single location. Grading workflow options also let instructors give feedback on submissions and control when learners can see it.
Seating Chart
The mobile-friendly seating chart tool adds drag-and-drop ease to the process of taking attendance, tracking class participation, and composing notes for formative assessment. You can easily identify areas of need by applying attendance, score and cold call filters to a class.
Gradebook
The Gradebook is a powerful tool for tracking the online grades of learners. With a powerful feature set and set-up wizard, the Gradebook simplifies tracking, calculating, and viewing of grades.
Flexible setup options provide freedom to implement the grading system that works best in your individual course. To save time, grades can be automatically imported from assessment tools and SCORM, entered in a simple spreadsheet-style interface, or imported from CSV-formatted files.
Within the Grades tool, instructors are provided with useful indicators of the current state of a user's submissions, along with easy access to those submissions. This makes it easy for instructors to navigate from Grades directly into learner submissions within the associated assessment tools.
Competencies
Learning Environment facilitates easy tracking of user progress by leveraging organizational structures to share competencies across multiple courses. Assess organization, program, and course-wide competencies and learning objectives through quizzes, assignments, discussions, grades, and surveys.
Rubrics
Rubrics help to define transparent assessment criteria and create structured feedback. In Learning Environment, rubrics can be used to evaluate quizzes, assignments, and discussions, along with activities that take place in other tools or outside the system altogether. Rubrics from your organization or courses can also be shared, copied, exported and imported, enabling colleagues to share with each other or across institutions.
