Planning & Self-Study Release Notes for November 20, 2025

Overview

This release introduces the following features:

  • Enhanced Measure Results: Provides administrators and leads with detailed visibility into results associated with outcomes across multiple assessment plans.
  • New Aggregate Chart in the Outcome Performance Dashboard: Consolidates measure results from multiple assessment plans to help users quickly understand overall performance trends for each outcome.
  • Improved Outcome Details All Organizations Export: Now includes the Organization Code column for unique organization identification.
  • Improved Outcome Details All Courses Export: Now includes the Course Code column, and the existing "Course" column is renamed Course Title.
  • Tactics Status and Progress CSV Export: The export now includes a Tactic Description column, allowing users to view the description alongside the title for streamlined reporting.

Enhanced Measure Results View for Outcomes

We have introduced an enhanced Measure Results feature that allows administrators and leads to view detailed results associated with outcomes across assessment plans. This enhancement improves visibility into assessment data, supporting more informed decision-making.

Key Highlights:

  • Comprehensive Measure Listing: Administrators can now view all measures created for a selected outcome across all assessment plans where the outcome has been assessed.

    The Outcome Performance Dashboard highlighting the 'Measure Results' option.
  • Contextual Details: The performance dashboard displays the Organization and outcome titles. Assessment plans are listed in the order: Future, Current, and Past.

    The Measure Results page showing the individual measure results.
  • Measure Information: Each plan displays the outcome status and corresponding measures, including the Measure Title and Measure Method (with both method name and type—Direct or Indirect).
  • Result Visibility: Result sources (e.g., SLL, LMS Canvas, Blackboard, and D2L, etc.) are shown for each measure. The Overall status will also be available for each measure (or Unspecified if not added by the user).
  • View More Details Option: Users have the option to view more details about a specific measure, including its target, description, organization, and analysis.

    The Measure Results page showing the individual measure results and highlighting the 'View More Details' option.
    The Measure Results page highlighting the 'Design Project Evaluation' section.

New Aggregate Chart in Outcome Performance Dashboard

A new aggregate chart feature has been introduced to provide a comprehensive, data-driven view of outcome performance. This chart consolidates measure results from multiple assessment plans to help users quickly understand overall performance trends for each outcome.

The aggregate chart is available only to clients using an Advanced LMS Integration. 

Key Highlights:

  • Unified Outcome View: The chart displays total counts for all result categories (e.g., Met, Not Met, Approached, Exceeded) across all measures associated with a given outcome, spanning all assessment plans where the outcome has been assessed.
  • Included Result Sources: The aggregate chart incorporates results from Advanced and old LMS integrations, internal integrations (Student Learning & Licensure, Course Evaluations & Surveys, and Outcomes Assessment Projects), and individually entered counts by contributors.
  • Send Email Option: It includes categories into which scores fall (e.g., Met, Not Met) from the Send Email option.
  • Excluded Result Sources: The following sources are excluded: the Send Email option using the average of all scores and Upload results and write a summary.
  • Dynamic Category Display: If only "Met" and "Not Met" results exist across all measures, only these two categories are displayed. If any measure includes additional categories (e.g., Approached, Exceeded), all such categories are included in the chart.
  • Dynamic Updates: The aggregate chart automatically updates to reflect any changes in the underlying data or result sources, ensuring real-time accuracy.
The Measure Results page showing the aggregate results as a bar chart.

Tactics Status and Progress CSV Export

Based on user feedback, the Tactics Status and Progress CSV export has been updated to include a new column for Tactic Description. This enhancement allows users to view tactic descriptions directly in the CSV export for Strategic Plans.

Details:

The new column, Tactic Description, appears as the fourth column in the export, immediately following Tactic Title.

  • If a tactic has a description, it will now be displayed in this column.
  • If no description is provided for the tactic, the corresponding cell in the CSV will be left blank.

Improved Outcome Details Exports

The Outcome Details All Organizations and Outcome Details All Courses export have been updated to make them more informative and easier to use.

These improvements help analyze and distinguish between organizations and courses in exported data.

Details:

Outcome Details All Organizations export:

  • Now includes a new column: Organization Code.
  • This column helps you uniquely identify organizations even when their names are similar.

Outcome Details All Courses export:

  • Now features a new column: Course Code.
  • The existing Course column has been renamed to Course Title to display only the course name (without the code).
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