Taking the Harvesting Gradebook to production

Last summer we took Gary’s Harvesting Gradebook idea from concept to implementation and during the school year we conducted two pilots in classes. Figure 1 is a diagram of the concept, showing how data can serve the needs of student, instructor and academic program. Here is a live demo you can try. One of our [...]

Enhance course evaluations with faculty data

Previously we have explored assessing assignments along with the student work the assignment prompted.  We have also experimented with a parallel idea in course evaluations. The work was done in the College of Agriculture Human and Natural Resource Sciences, with their college-wide course evaluation between 2008 and 2009. The course evaluation instrument contains several Likert [...]

Harvesting feedback on a course assignment

This post demonstrates harvesting rubric-based feedback in a course, and how the feedback can be used by instructors and programs, as well as students. It is being prepared for a Webinar hosted by the TLT group. (Update 7/28: Webinar archive here. Minutes 16-36 are our portion. Minutes 24-31 are music while participants work on the [...]

Mockups of Rain King Pages

FYI, the partial mockup I demo’ed last Thursday is available here. The mockup of a college page is here. The mockup of a college-year page is here. The mockup of a college-topic page is here. All of this is highly subject to change. – Joshua