Creating and Managing Course Assessment Measures
Davenee James
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54 steps
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4 minutes
Watermarkinsights
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Navigate to [https://planning.watermarkinsights.com/](https://planning.watermarkinsights.com/)
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Click "Enter Course"
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Click "Course Information"
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Click "MANAGE MEASURES"
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Click "CREATE NEW MEASURE"
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Click here.
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Type " Midterm Exam"
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Click "Select Method"
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Click "Exam (Course)"
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Click here.
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Give it a description.
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Click the "Target" field.
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Type "80% of students will achieve an 80 and above." (Use your own target)
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Click "Add Alignment"
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Click "Select a source"
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Click "Canvas"
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Click "Next"
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Click "Align By Activity"
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Click "Next"
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Click "Select a term"
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Click "Fall 2024"
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Search for Assignment(s) Name or scroll through.
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Click "Exam 1 - Chapters 1, 3, 4, 8"
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Click "Exam 2 - Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12"
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Click "Next"
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Click "ALIGN ACTIVITIES"
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Click "Define Met Criteria"
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Click this text field.
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I said my met score would be 80 and above.
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Click "APPLY MET CRITERIA"
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Same thing again if you have multiple assignments.
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Click "Define Met Criteria"
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Click this text field.
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Type "80"
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Click "APPLY MET CRITERIA"
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Click "CREATE MEASURE"
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Click "Done"
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Click "In Progress"
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Click "2024-2025 Course Assessment Plan"
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Click in the Outcome that you created the Measure.
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Click on the three vertical dots next to your measure.
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Click "Measure Details"
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Now you get this beautiful bar that shows how many students met or haven't met the criteria you set.
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Click "Select Measure Status"
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I selected "Not Met" Because I said 80% of students would achieve a 80% and above, but from the bar graph only 76% of students met that 80% and above.
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Now you write your analysis on maybe why they didn't meet or etc...
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Now I may need to add an action plan, so I Click "Add New Action"
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I chose to revise benchmark/target so I Click, "Revise Benchmark / Target"
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Click in the Status dropdown.
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Click "In Progress"
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Click the "Action Description*" field.
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I then went ahead and Type "Revising the Benchmark/Target to maybe 75% and above will be met."
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Click "Create Action"
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Click "Save & Close"
All Complete!, then you'll do that for the next Outcome.
