- Configuring the assessment model
- Creating a rubric
- Grading individual activities
- Adding an overall assessment
- Speeding up the assessment process
- Submission for assessment
Within eJournal, portfolios are comprised of many individual parts that, if so desired, can contribute towards an overall grade. This page provides an overview of what settings are available to tailor eJournal's assessment workflow to best fit your needs.
¶ Deciding on the assessment method
The second step in configuring your assessment workflow is deciding at which level the journals are evaluated.
Journals can be assessed based on their individual entries, given an overall assessment, or a combination of both. It is not required to assess individual entries to make use of an overall assessment or vice-versa.
¶ Working with an overall outcome
The first step in configuring your assessment workflow is deciding if you would like to work with an overall outcome. This outcome captures the end result of an assignment, and exists alongside any feedback on individual activities.
In this example the teacher has opted to work with an overall outcome, and defined the maximum obtainable outcome as 10 points.
It is not mandatory to work with an overall outcome, for example you might on category related feedback instead which transcends the boundaries of a single assignment.
¶ Overall outcome and your LMS
If you are working with a LMS such as Canvas, Brightspace, or Blackboard, the result of an overall outcome can be communicated with the LMS. So for each eJournal assignment, one outcome per student can be stored in the LMS.
It is still possible to give a student's journal a higher score, but the resulting grade in your LMS will be capped based on the value you configure.
¶ Assessing individual entries
You can provide feedback to each individual journal activity.
Do you not want to grade each individual entry?
An overall assessment might be a better fit for your workflow.
¶ Overall assessment
In addition to (or: instead of) grading individual journal entries, you can also provide an overall assessment for a journal.This may include a rubric to structure the assessment criteria. It is even possible to automatically integrate grades given to individual entries as part of your overall assessment.
In this example the overall assessment rubric is extended with a criterion that sums the grade of the individual journal entries.
It is up to your workflow what avenue fits best. Combine the assessment options as you see fit!
¶ When does assessment take place
By default an eJournal assignment is configured as a continuous process. Students work on their journals, teachers are notified of any updates, and a cycle of feedback and improvement takes place. If this is what you are looking for, you can skip this section, everything is already configured correctly!
In some cases you may want to delay the assessment until a student explicitly submits their journal for assessment. For this workflow we offer several settings, such as the ability to freeze journals once submitted for assessment, or the ability to mute updates about intermediate student progression.