Overview

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Essential Skills:

• Creating Waypoint Elements: the Element Library
  • Learn how to create Elements from scratch and by searching the Waypoint Public Library.
  • View Creating Waypoint Elements: the Element Library.
• Creating Waypoint Assignments: the Assignment Library
  • Learn how to create an Assignment from scratch, copy an Assignment from the Waypoint Public Library, or import a rubric from RubiStar.
  • View Creating Waypoint Assignments: the Assignment Library.
• Creating Feedback and Data: Evaluate
  • Learn how to use the Waypoint Evaluate page efficiently to create exceptional feedback for students, or simply to generate data on their achievement.
  • View Evaluating Student Work.
• Annotating Documents: Attachment on Evaluate
  • Learn how to annotate a document and then return it, with your overall comments, to students via email or (if applicable) a Course Management System like Blackboard, Moodle, or Blackboard Vista/CE6/8.
  • View Annotating Documents.
• Sharing Waypoint Assignments: Waypoint Teams
  • Learn how to share Waypoint Assignments with your colleagues, whether your goal is to help colleagues build their own Assignment libraries or to deploy formal assessments for which you can easily aggregate data and review feedback created for students.
  • View Waypoint Teams.
• Creating Peer Review and Self-Assessments: Waypoint Projects
  • Learn how to can create Waypoint Assignments not only for your own use, but for students, Teaching Assistants, and even external reviewers to use. You may want to structure peer review, self-assessment, or the grading of labs or homework. Whatever the purpose, using Waypoint Projects makes it easy for you to share your expertise while helping others develop the language of response and understand the goals of a particular assignment.
  • View Waypoint Projects.

General Overview Videos: Pedagogy, Assessment, and Accreditation:

• Accreditation and Developing a Culture of Assessment
  • This overview is ideal for administrators and faculty involved in outcomes assessment.
• Waypoint Basics: Creating Exceptional Feedback
  • This detailed walk through is designed for instructors who assess and respond to subjective, authentic student work.
• Creating Exceptional Feedback. Faster
  • This six minute overview details Waypoint from an instructor's point of view.
• Overview of the Waypoint Outcomes Building Block for the Blackboard Academic Suite
  • Learn how Waypoint integrates with Blackboard.

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