Canvas Five Year LMS Accreditation Reporting Using Rubrics and Assignments

Abstract

There is a surprisingly large gap between measuring inputs to a program and outputs from that program. Accreditation requirements have added an increasingly burdensome workload to degree-plan and course administration. The ease with which one can design assignments and their corresponding rubrics does not freely translate to assessing student response to those assignments. The challenge is to deploy assessment tools that are easy to understand, administer, deploy, and learn from. This paper focuses on the assessment of assignments evaluated by detailed rubrics. We describe tools and processes that enable us to examine years of data at a granularity not directly supported by our LMS.