Organization Management

Tools for Organization Management  The Organization Management tool enables administrators to: Assign Leads to Organizations Add and Import Outcomes across Organizations Manage the Hierarchy Access Organization Assessment and Planning Profiles Download Course Enrollment data in CSV format Organization Management Homepage When you log in to your Planning & Self-Study A...

Definition and Permissions In Planning & Self-Study, each Organization in your hierarchy can have multiple Leads assigned to it.   Assigning someone as a Lead designates that individual as someone responsible for managing assessment and planning data related to that Organization.  A Lead has access to view and edit the following content for an Organization: Mission Sta...

  Create a New Mission Statement If you are entering an organization’s mission statement for the first time, click the Add Mission link for that organization.   You will be taken to the Information tab of the Organization Profile, where you will see a text box to enter your mission statement. You can either type the mission statement directly into the text area or cop...

Creating Outcomes To begin creating an outcome, a user would click the "Create Outcomes" link for that organization from the Organizational dashboard on their homepage. (Note: If outcomes already exist, this text will be replaced with the current number of outcomes, which would also be clicked in this step.)     Note: Administrators may not have this particular access ...

Importing Outcomes into Planning & Self Study Learning and Success Outcomes can be imported into Planning & Self Study in bulk, via CSV import. This capability is particularly useful for users coming to Planning & Self-Study from another system, or those that have their current outcomes documented elsewhere. This feature allows institutions to get up and running more qu...

All Organizations (Departments, Programs, Courses, etc.) in Planning & Self Study have the ability to create their own organizational Outcome set. This set is divided into Learning Outcomes and Success Outcomes, should both be in use by the Organization.  Learning Outcomes are fully-featured - Measures created against a Learning Outcome will contain ALL Measure Types, R...

Leads working in Planning & Self Study might be asked to contribute "mapping" connections to the Outcome Map and/or the Curriculum Map.   The Outcome Map The Outcome Map is a matrix that provides the means for an Organization to map, or illustrate a connection between, its own Outcomes and those of any other relevant Organization. In practice, this might be a Program m...

Outcome Mapping Outcomes entered into Planning & Self-Study can be mapped to outcomes created by other organizations that fall on higher or lower levels of the hierarchy. In other words, a Program may create its own set of Program Learning Outcomes. The Department that the Program falls under would likely have its own Department-level outcomes, just as the College that ...

  It is only possible to delete outcomes that are not pulled into any plans. If the delete option is available, then deletion is possible and the outcome has not yet been pulled into any plans.   If the Delete option is not available, then the outcome has been pulled into a plan and the steps below will show how to remove the outcome and proceed with deletion.   1. En...

As a contributor, when you log into Planning & Self-Study, you will see dashboards for each organization- such as a program, co-curricular or administrative unit- for which you have been assigned as a lead contributor to enter assessment and planning data. Each dashboard contains information about the assigned area as well as various links to access the area and enter d...

Curriculum Maps can be shared with external stakeholders via a web link or exporting to PDF. This allows leads to share curriculum maps with Deans, Provosts, or other faculty to facilitate discussions on the extent to which the courses that make up a degree program support the intended outcomes. Curriculum Maps can be shared two ways: Sharing as a Web Link and Exporting...