Building Assessments and Grading Learners Overview
This self-paced and interactive course will help you to build assessments. This course will provide you with workflows, tips, and effective practices for assessment that will support every stage of learning. We will explore learning activities, grading, and using statistics to help your learners succeed.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Build a grade book with settings and grade items that support your course assessment goals
- Build a variety of assessment activities in Learning Environment
- Determine effective workflows for grading assessments
- Use assessment statistics to enhance your course and support your learners
- Use strategies to personalize your assessments to support a variety of learner needs
AUDIENCE
This course has been designed to benefit and appeal to both beginners and experienced Brightspace users.
Beginners: This course will guide you through the basics of setting up assessments. This course will walk you through key workflows needed to set up your grade book, build assessments, and grade assessment items. Once you have completed the course requirements, you will receive a completion certificate.
Experienced: This course will validate your knowledge of how to set up Brightspace assessments with a completion certificate. It will also provide experienced users with up-to-date information that reflects key changes to Brightspace Learning Environment.
DURATION
Expected effort: 12-18 hours
Building Assessments and Grading Learners Agenda
MODULE 1: SETTING UP YOUR GRADEBOOK
This module covers the workflows used at the beginning of a course to set up your grade book. This module shares tips on how to make decisions related to grade book settings.
MODULE 2: BUILDING ASSESSMENTS
This module includes workflows for all assessment tools. You will build assessments questions, create an assignment folder and rubric, and build a quiz. You will also learn about use cases for surveys and self-assessments.
MODULE 3: GRADING ASSESSMENTS
This module provides you with different workflows for grading assessment items. You will also learn how to interpret assessment tool statistics and make adjustments to your assessment activities.
MODULE 4: PERSONALIZING ASSESSMENTS
This module is focused on creating assessments that connect with all your learners. You will learn how to create learning paths with release conditions, use awards to increase learner motivation, and set up special access to quizzes and assignments.