Measurement and Assessment
Assessment plays a critical role in the online learning process. Desire2Learn® Learning Environment includes an unparalleled suite of measurement and assessment tools to evaluate outcomes and perform diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments.
Quizzes
Quiz & Self-Assessment/Survey | Fully accessible quizzing tool with options to provide special access to users with special needs
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.
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Survey and Self-Assessments
Our Survey tool provides our clients with valuable course or organization-wide feedback from their community. The Self-Assessment tool enables our clients to test their 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.
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Dropbox
Inline Document Viewer
The Dropbox provides a convenient way to submit individual and group assignments from a computer or directly from the Locker, from ePortfolio, or by recording audio. Our Dropbox tool gives clients the ability to manage submissions, provide written or audio feedback, markup documents, and grade or assess assignments using rubrics, all from a single location.
Within the Dropbox tool, the capability to view documents inline streamlines and simplifies and simplifies the process of grading submitted assignments allowing the process to all be done from within the learning system. Instructors can now save significant time by providing feedback and grading (including by rubric) while simultaneously viewing the submitted assignment – no downloading or uploading required.
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Seating Chart
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. Instructors can now easily identify areas of need by applying attendance, score and cold call filters to their class.
Gradebook
With a powerful feature set and set-up wizard, the Gradebook meets a multitude of skill sets. Flexible setup options provide our clients freedom to implement the grading system that works best for their individual course. To save time, grades can be entered in a simple spreadsheet-style interface or imported from Microsoft Excel® or CSV File Format.
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Competencies
Learning Environment facilitates easy tracking of user progress by leveraging organizational structures to share competencies across multiple courses. Our clients assess organization, program, and course-wide competencies and learning objectives through quizzes, assignments, discussions, grades, and surveys.
Rubrics
Rubrics enable our clients' organizations to define transparent assessment criteria and create structured feedback. Rubrics are used to evaluate quizzes, assignments, and discussions within Learning Environment, along with activities that take place in other tools or outside the system altogether.
With rubric visibility prior to the submission of an assessment, students are informed of the criteria for success. Automated transfer of rubric scores and feedback to the Gradebook increases grading efficiency and accuracy for instructors.
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