SLOlutions

Here is a preliminary list of tasks the SLOlutions software can accomplish:

• Actions on Student Learning Outcomes
  • Create, edit, and delete SLOs at course and program levels (including General Education, Basic Skills, Degrees and Certificates, and Student Services)
  • View the text of an SLO for any course or program
  • Designate SLOs as "active" (i.e. currently being assessed)
  • Adopt (i.e. copy) and modify an existing SLO from a course or program into another course or program
  • Create a rubric for each SLO, including the ability to define custom rubric scales
  • Indicate benchmarks for achievement for each outcome
  • Collect SLO assessment results from all faculty, using the rubric as a guide
  • Present SLO assessment data in graphical form
  • Prepare assessment reports/action plans in response to assessment data
  • Collect and combine course data for common SLOs associated with a program
• Communications Operations
  • Email and/or prepare a distribution list for all instructors teaching a course
  • Contact instructors who have not submitted outcomes data
• User Operations
  • Create new users
  • Users may change their contact information and passwords
    • All passwords are encrypted for security purposes
  • Instructors may selectively view SLOs associated with their courses
  • Access to the system's features are limited based on the user's role in the system, which include
    • General Users
    • Faculty in Charge of a Course
    • Program Administrators (i.e. Department Heads)
    • Division Administrators
    • Master Administrators

    Note that the term administrator here refers mainly to access roles in the software, and not necessarily to administrative roles at the institution. For example, division secretaries generally will have Division Administrator privileges, while the primary Master Administrator should be the SLO Coordinator (a faculty member). Decisions as to roles are entirely at the discretion of the adopting college.

• Course and Program Operations
  • Create, edit, and delete courses and programs in the system
  • Create and edit mission statements for Student Services programs
  • Create and edit descriptive/guiding text for all other programs
  • Create, edit, and delete course sections

  Depending on the abilities of the information system currently in place at your campus, it should be possible to import all course data each term. This will be handled on a college-by-college basis.

Additional features will be incorporated in subsequent versions of the software. In addition, some customization for individual colleges may be possible depending on the nature of the changes requested.