Creating an Assessment Project

To create an Assessment Project, follow the steps below:

If the instructions in this article do not match what you see in your product, you might be using Watermark's Outcomes Assessment Projects. Please check the articles in Outcomes Assessment Projects (OAP) section for the correct guidance.
  1. Navigate to Academics & Offices, select an organization, select Assessment Projects
  2. Select New Project and select your project settings

The Assessment Projects page showing a list of projects for the College of Excellency, with tabs across the top and each project displaying its outcomes, creation date, and status.

Project Details

  1. Enter a Project Title

  2. Project Description - this is a description is available to administrators only

  3. Select Learning Outcomes

    • You have the option to select multiple learning outcomes to be assessed in the project, but you must select at least one

The New Assessment Project page showing fields to enter a project title and description, along with a dropdown to select learning outcomes and a save button at the top.

Scoring Details

  • Random Sampling

    • This is the percentage of artifacts you would like randomly selected for evaluation
  • Evaluation Count

    • The number of evaluators that should score a rubric for any given artifact
      • Assessment Projects allows for multiple learning outcomes to be assessed with one or more rubrics.
        • An Artifact can be scored using multiple rubrics
        • An Evaluation refers to the scored rubric submitted by each evaluator
        • Evaluation Count refers to the number of evaluators you would like assigned to submit a scored rubric for each artifact

Evaluation Details

  1. Anonymity

    • Allows you to anonymize students in the evaluator artifact queue
    • This setting does not redact or remove the student’s name from the artifact
  2. Unscorable Submissions

    • Allows evaluators to mark artifacts as unscorable
  3. Instructor Check

    • Prevents evaluators from being assigned to score their own students’ submissions
  4. Outcome Assignment

    • Allows you to indicate which evaluators are eligible to assess each learning outcome
  5. Select SAVE. Saving a project will direct you to the Project Overview page.

The New Assessment Project page showing the Evaluation Details section with options to enable anonymity, allow unscorable submissions, prevent evaluators from scoring their own students, and restrict evaluators to assigned outcomes.

To get help with the Project Overview and Activity set up, continue to this article: Creating Assessment Project Activities

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