Creating a Course Assessment Plan

In order to create a Course Assessment Plan, a user must first be assigned the Administrator role for Planning & Self Study. With this permission, users can create Course Assessment Plans by following the steps described below.

The process begins by selecting Plans on the left-hand administrative menu.

The 'Plans' option.

On the following screen, all existing Plans will display, along with a Start New Plan button in the top-right. The user would select this button to begin the process.

The 'Start New Plan' button.

This will produce a screen on which the Plan's settings will be put in place.

The first step is to name the Plan, and to provide an optional due date:

The Plan Details section showing fields for entering the plan title and selecting the due date.

The next step involves  adding the reporting year and selecting Course Plan as the plan type.

The Define Reporting Period section showing the selected reporting year, and its date range. Add New Reporting Year option is located on the right.
The reporting period section showing the selected year and the plan type options for program or course assessment.

*If the reporting year does not appear on the list of available years, click Add Reporting Year to add a new year. Only a single Reporting Year can be selected.

The next step involves defining the scope of the Plan. After clicking Define Scope, the user will select the Organization(s) to include and the system will show how many courses are included within the organization.

The user has the option to filter the organization hierarchy on the basis of an organization type. A Show drop-down will appear and it will have the option to view All Organizations, and a particular organization type.

*It is not possible to make selections at the Program level.

The Define Plan Scope section showing filter options for selecting organizations, with a dropdown open displaying All Organizations and Departments Only, and a search field below for locating specific courses.

To view the specific courses, or to de-select a course, click on the pencil icon next to the courses selected.

The Define Plan Scope section showing the list of organizations and contributors, with the Physics Department displaying selected courses. An arrow points to the link showing that 2 out of 2 courses are selected, with Cancel and Apply buttons in the bottom right corner.

After viewing the selected courses, click Save Selections, then click Apply after returning to the previous screen.

The Edit Course Selections for Physics Department page showing two selected courses which include Advanced Physics and Intermediate Physics, with options to search, select all, filter by selected courses only, and save selections. Back and Save Selections buttons are located in the bottom right corner.

Once the plan has been set up, the user would select Publish. This plan will now be published to all programs and courses defined in the scope.

The confirmation message showing that the plan is ready to publish with a Publish button displayed on the right.
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