Faculty Guidance

Faculty participation makes institution-wide Core Curriculum assessment possible. Detailed current-cycle instructions and deadlines will be posted as they are finalized.

What Participating Faculty Can Expect

1. Notification: Before the semester begins, faculty are notified when a Core Curriculum attribute associated with their course is scheduled for assessment.
2. Assignment identification: Faculty identify one summative assignment that allows students to demonstrate the applicable Core outcome.
3. Exact D2L assignment name: Faculty provide the assignment name exactly as it appears in D2L so the correct student work can be retrieved.
4. Supporting materials: Faculty submit the assignment prompt and the course-grading rubric, if one is used.
5. Student work collection: Student artifacts are collected from D2L during the scheduled assessment year.
6. Faculty assessment: Trained faculty assessors score sampled work using the institutional Core rubric. Individual course instructors do not have to score their students’ work with the Core rubric.

Selecting an Appropriate Assignment

A suitable assignment should be summative and should produce a student artifact that can be evaluated using the applicable Core rubric. Examples may include:

• Research papers or analytical essays
• Reflections
• Lab reports
• Selected examination responses
• Oral presentations
• Video submissions from Oral Communication (OCO) courses
• Assignments completed in languages other than English

When Students Do Not Normally Submit Through D2L

If students normally submit handwritten work, faculty may ask students to upload a single PDF to a D2L assignment folder created for assessment. Contact the Core Curriculum director when another collection method, such as scanning, may be needed.

Resources to Be Added

• Current-cycle dates and deadlines
• D2L setup directions
• Faculty survey instructions
• Assignment-alignment examples
• Sample prompts and signature assignments
• Workshop and assessor materials