Assessment Leads have the option to incorporate rubric assessment results directly from D2L Brightspace into measure results in Watermark. The results pulled will be reflected in the plan’s annual reports.
Align Rubric Results from D2L Brightspace
Once the integration is activated, assessment leads can pull assessment results from D2L Brightspace into measures in Planning & Self-Study using their own accounts. To do this, an assessment lead will follow these steps:
Either create a new measure or add results to an existing one. Create a new measure and select “Align Rubric”.
Aligning rubric results from another system to a new measure.
“Add Results” to an existing measure and then select “I want to align results from another system.”
Aligning rubric results from another system to an existing measure
Select D2L Brightspace as the source from which to pull measure results. The assessment lead will then authenticate with their D2L credentials to authorize the system to access the rubric results data they have access to in D2L Brightspace.
Source options for aligning rubric results from another system.
- Select from two role options. If the user is an Administrator OR Admin-Limited within D2L, then they will select the Administrator role and search for the Courses to which they have access. If the user is an Instructor within D2L, they will select the Instructor option and can then select from the course(s) they have access to.
In D2L Brightspace, the "Admin" and "Admin - Limited" roles are designed to provide administrative access, but with different levels of permissions:
Admin Role:
- Full system-wide access across all courses, users, and tools.
- Can create, edit, and delete any course.
Admin Limited Role:
- Restricted administrative privileges, often limited to specific departments, org units, or tools.
- May only access certain courses or areas within the system as defined by organizational hierarchy.
- Can perform course-level tasks like editing or managing content, enrolling users, and setting up gradebooks, but only for the courses they are assigned to.
Once a role is selected, they can select a specific academic year from the dropdown menu. The academic years are specific to the academic/reporting years created in Planning and Self-Study. All of the available academic years for the institution are displayed in the dropdown.
After selecting an academic year, instructors will automatically see all courses falling within the date range of that academic year. Courses are displayed in a two-column format, showing course code and course name. Sorting of courses is alphanumeric. Courses are presented as single-select radio options. Once selected, the course is displayed in the footer beside the "Selected Course" option. If no course is selected, "None" is displayed.
Instructors can also use the search option to search for specific courses. If no results are found, a helpful message guides users to refine their search or select a different academic year. Pagination is implemented to display up to 50 records per page.
- After selecting a course and clicking next, users will be directed to selecting Artifacts, Assignments, Rubrics and Results Settings.
The rubric list will filter automatically based on the selected assignment/topic. The user will then be able to choose to pull either the overall rubric score or rubric criteria results into Planning & Self-Study.
Select the Rubric from the list & choose overall score or rubric criteria results.
Once aligned, the filtered results from D2L Brightspace will display in the measure in Planning & Self-Study, as well as in the Annual Report generated from within Planning & Self-Study.
D2L results displayed in the assessment plan in Planning & Self-Study.
The results from D2L displayed in the assessment report in Planning & Self-Study.