There are many features in EvalTools® that you could choose to use as you see fit for your program’s learning and teaching or assessment and evaluation. The following gives a good indication of what is supported by EvalTools®, in particular, for assessment and evaluation of programs.
EvaTools®
Software Solutions – Higher Ed
EvalTools® is designed NOT only for day-to-day classroom activity, but also for gauging learning and teaching delivery in meeting standards. Its outcomes assessment module, in particular, integrates proven best assessment practices including a Rubric-driven Assessment Model and an FCAR Assessment Model.
EvalTools® Evaluator Portal
Why waste time in organizing all the hard objective evidence in a room, and then trash them after the accreditation visit. Go 100% Green with digital evidence that was organized according to outcomes. Save time and make Evaluator’s life easier. Happy Evaluator leads to happy results!
EvalTools® OAS
An Outcomes Assessment System that is unique in its class and covers best practices in the assessment community. It has proven 12 years record of aiding universities for ABET It has also enabled recently a university to achieve excellent results in Middle-States accreditation.
EvalTools® MeetingMinute
An effective means to track all meeting activities and records. You could create tasks list and assigned to any community groups. More importantly you could track the status of any understanding tasks.
EvalTools® CIMS
Continuous Improvement Management System that closes the loop for tracking assessment improvement. This is one of the toughest piece of tasks to perform in the assessment process. EvalTools® makes it easy for you.
EvalTools® Community
A self-managed community portal for any assigned group of users to interact and keep documents / material relevant to the group’s activities. The common usage is to track any committee’s activities within a college or for the whole campus.
EvalTools® Survey
Online survey system that handles end-of-term survey, alumni survey, senior-exit survey, employer survey and customizable surveys.
EvalTools® LMS
Covers essential elements for managing day-to-day classroom activities for lesson, assignments, gradebook, etc.
EvalTools®
Performance Indicators Evaluation
There are many features and modules provided by EvalTools®. Just on the EvalTools® OAS, the following are brief essentials:
- EvalTools® 6 is the most advanced toolset for outcomes assessment. It integrates proven best assessment practices, including a Rubric-driven Assessment Model and an FCAR Assessment
- EvalTools® has over 14 years of proven results in preparing programs for ABET accreditation.
- We have accomplished major achievements with ABET, Middle States accreditation at several programs with implementation of latest methodologies and systems for outcomes assessment.
- Our clients have submitted world class papers on several topics related to automation, continuous improvement and outcomes assessment at local and international conferences.
- Why pay for separate packages for Learning Management System (LMS), Outcomes Assessment Systems (OAS), and Online Survey Systems (OSS)? EvalTools® does it all for you, and the EvalTools® reporting tool streamlines the effort and time needed to produce self-study reports.
- EvalTools® 6 categorizes the quality improvement process into three levels: program educational objective assessment, student outcomes assessment, and course outcomes assessment.
- EvalTools® 6 provides rich and relevant features to support each of these three levels of assessment activities.
Specifically, EvalTools® OAS is designed to address the following important issues:
Modules provided by EvalTools®
Module Details
- EvalTools® 6 provides many ways to evaluate data.
- Data can be rolled up per term or across multiple terms for performance indicators or student outcomes using Performance Indicators Evaluation or Student Outcomes Evaluation modules.
- The Course Action Items Matrix module is used to close the loop.
- The Executive Summary module captures an overall report of a specific cycle of evaluation.
- There are many other modules: Objective Evidence Folders, Curriculum Outcomes Matrix, etc.
New Features
- PI Classification – Performance Indicators (PI) can be designed to measure breath or depth. In either case, the question remains on the roll-up data from each FCAR at course level being used to compute the aggregate average of a PI. EvalTools® 6 gives you a greater flexibility in classifying PI into three domains according to Bloom’s Taxonomy that applies to different levels of courses.
- Course-level Classification – In addition to PI Classification, if your PI definition focuses on breath, then course-level classification will give you another way of assessing your PI. The course-level classifications are: Introduction, Re-enforced, and Master/Assessed-Level.
- Major-Separation Assessment – This is the most advanced feature in outcomes assessment. You could refine and separate a class that has multiple-major students in meeting their corresponding programs’ outcomes. This feature is particularly useful for a department having multiple programs that have common courses in meeting different sets of student outcomes. EvalTools® is the ONLY toolset that has this feature.
- Evaluator Site – To make life easier for the ABET evaluator during a visit to your campus, EvalTools® 6 rolls up a complete electronic objective evidence site for the ease of examining the evidence extracted from the course portfolio in EvalTools® 6. NO MORE room full of hard copies of evidence. This is the first of the kind feature deployed at Gannon University for its ECE department’s 2017 ABET visit. Go Green completely! The department has achieved a flawless accreditation.
Instructional Improvement System
EvalTools® IIS
easy-to-use
EvalTools® LMS is more like an Instructional Improvement System (IIS)
rather than a traditional Learning Management System (LMS).
rather than a traditional Learning Management System (LMS).
Besides the following standard features of a LMS:
Class mail
Grade book
Attendance/roster
Lessons
Assignments
Online Quiz
Course Info/Course Syllabus
Customizable Lesson
A customizable lesson plan for each school to achieve a common platform for contents delivery
Comments Interface
Easy-to-use comments interface for communication between students in class and teacher
School Announcement
Class announcement or school announcement are on homepage for both teachers and students
Video Manager
You could have your own private video hosting site or import videos that you posted on YouTube. Private video site allows your school to keep intellectual properties all in one place
Live Meeting
In view of COVID-19 and the need for live meeting for future instructions, EvalTools® is designed to fulfill the daily online live remote instructions.
Integrated Modules
EvalTools® Live
EvalTools® Live is a fully intergated module into EvalTools®. That means you do Not need to separately invite students to your meeting. Once you set up a meeting, students join your meeting by simply a click when they are in your classroom.
- Chat – send public and private messages
- Webcams – host virtual meetings
- Audio – communicate using high quality audio
- Emojis – express yourself
- Breakout rooms – group users into breakout rooms for team collaboration
- Polling – poll your users anytime
- Screen sharing – share your screen
- Multi-user whiteboard – draw together
Principal Office:
EvalTools® provides dashboard features for principal to view the overall teachers’ activities.
EvalTools® 6 Survey
EvalTools® Survey is a comprehensive and easy-to-use survey creation and management toolset. It can generate surveys for use in a classroom environment or non-classroom environment. For a classroom environment survey such as the Course-Exit Survey, the users are the students in the class. The database for a classroom environment survey is usually automatically populated with the assistance of your system administrator. For a non-classroom environment such as the senior-exit survey, for example, are not necessary from any class roster. Hence, you will free to define or create your own users or survey participants. In either case, the survey creation process is entirely and easily customizable. EvalTools® Survey comes with the following types of questionnaires:
- Regular Likert section
- Weighted importance section
- Qualitative section
- Multiple selections section
- Multiple choices section
- Ranking section
EvalTools® Survey includes pre-defined templates for both categories of surveys. Regardless of how you intend to deploy your surveys for a specific study or a campus-wide survey to replace the traditional paper survey, EvalTools® is the solution for you
LMS Highlighted Features
Standard Course Info templateChair Office have instant access to all course syllabiA role-based design, that is, a Chair sees only his/her departmental info whereas a faculty sees only his coursesCourse information/syllabus can be easily ported from any past terms by facultyReporting feature allow selection of course syllabus components to be printed collectively. This will make a program chair’s job so much easier in preparing self-study report.Faculty can strategically select assignments that correlate to assessing a Course Outcome (CO), a Performance Indicator (PI) or a Student Outcome (SO).Color-coded performance vector to assist a faculty in identifying any concern areas real-time for improvement (formative assessment).
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