Developing Assessments
In this module, you will learn strategies and best practices for designing both face-to-face and online assessments and add your assessment plan to your course blueprint. You will also explore examples of online assessments and learn about leveraging and creating rubrics for assessments.
Planning Blended Assessments
- Assessing Student Learning in Your Blended Course
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- NOTE: This chapter covers formative and summative assessments, holistic and analytic rubrics, how to determine whether face-to-face or online assessments will offer the best outcomes for your students in a variety of contexts, and making sure you are aligning your assessments to your course goals and objectives.
- NOTE: This chapter covers formative and summative assessments, holistic and analytic rubrics, how to determine whether face-to-face or online assessments will offer the best outcomes for your students in a variety of contexts, and making sure you are aligning your assessments to your course goals and objectives.
- Using Scaffolding to Support Assessment
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- NOTE: This page covers the use of Scaffolding as an assessment technique. The website also discusses several other pedagogical approaches and their use within Canvas. Feel free to explore other topics as you are able!
- NOTE: This page covers the use of Scaffolding as an assessment technique. The website also discusses several other pedagogical approaches and their use within Canvas. Feel free to explore other topics as you are able!
- Embed Tools for Teaching and Learning
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- NOTE: There are several websites and tools that offer embeddable content to enhance your Canvas courses. These tools can assist with enriching content, teaching skills, professional development, and formative assessment. Samples of tools are provided on this webpage. Please feel free to explore these tools as you are able.
Incorporating Assessments Into Your Blended Course Plan
- Complete Templates for Planning Face-to-Face and Online Assessments
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- Instructions: Complete the templates in tables 3.3, 3.4, and/or 3.5 from Chapter 3 of The Blended Course Design Workbook (pp. 42-43) to plan your blended course assessments and assure alignment to your objectives.
- Add Assessments to your Course Blueprint
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- Instructions: Return to your Course Blueprint and break your objectives down by unit or module. Match each course assessment to its learning objective.
NOTE: You must sign in to G Suite to make a copy of this document. If you already made a copy of the Course Blueprint in Module 2 and began to fill it in with your goals and objectives, continue working on that document in your personal Google Drive. If you have not worked on the Course Blueprint yet, it will be mentioned multiple times throughout the Learning Path. You only need to make a copy once - you should continue to add information to the file you have saved in your personal Google Drive.
- Instructions: Return to your Course Blueprint and break your objectives down by unit or module. Match each course assessment to its learning objective.
- Complete the Blended Course Assessment Checklist
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- Instructions: Complete the template in table 3.6 from Chapter 3 of The Blended Course Design Workbook (p. 44) to evaluate your overall blended course assessment plan.