Participants in the seminar helped to brainstorm questions, pros, cons, and resources to construct the beginning of this alternative assessment guide. You can use this guide to help yourself design low-stakes assessments for your hybrid (or face-to-face!) class as part of a larger, holistic assessment plan that will help students to track their progress and will help you to know what your class has understood and what still needs to be clarified.
These are two evaluation rubrics that CTL Director Allison Lehr-Samuels uses in her classes.
1. Log into VOCAT (https://http://baruch.vocat.io) using your Baruch e-mail credentials, click on the course site link, and watch two of the three videos that are available there. See this instructional video for help additional help with navigating this.
2. Use the VOCAT annotation feature to create at least two annotations on each video. These can be comments, questions, observations, or responses to other people’s annotations.
3.Create a response that discusses how you approach assessment now and what you might like to try from the videos that you saw (if anything) in one of the following formats:
Upload your completed response to the group VOCAT project using the “Manage Media” button at the top right of the “Submission Media” box containing the assessment videos. (See screenshot below) Note: this assignment is set up as a “shared project” so please be careful not to delete the other media submissions when uploading yours.
For help on creating and uploading your response, see VOCAT’s documentation section.
Assignment Design (complete using google docs)
4) Revise your draft assignment based on the Session #2 workshop feedback, and consider potential assessment strategies that you might use to assess this assignment.
5) To share your assignment, make a Google Doc and put it in the folder with your CTL Buddy’s name on it:
Click here to share your assignment in Allison’s folder
Click here to share your assignment in Cheryl’s folder
Click here to share your assignment in Hamad’s folder
Click here to share your assignment in Lindsey’s folder
Click here to share your assignment in Tamara’s folder
Please try to make a Google Doc instead of uploading an MS Word doc into the folder so that it’s easy for your colleagues to give you feedback and to see each other’s feedback. For help with how to do this, you can watch this tutorial video.
Assessment VOCAT
6) Annotate at least three other seminar participant’s responses on VOCAT. By this, we mean that you should add comments to at least three other participants’ videos.
Assignment Design
7) Find the assignment(s) that were designed by the people who share a CTL Buddy with you. Using the Google Docs comment feature, make at least 3 comments on each assignment.
8) Based on your assignment, outline two weeks of your hybrid course considering deliverables, assessments, and deadlines. You can do this however you’d like, but here’s a worksheet and a sample outline to help you get started. Print this out and bring it with you to the session.
Glossary
9) Contribute additional terms and definitions to our collective Hybrid Seminar Glossary. You’ll find the instructions in this glossary doc and if you’d like to add a term that isn’t already listed, feel free to do so.
