SLO Liaisons
Welcome!
At Grossmont College, we work collaboratively as a group of academic professionals
who care deeply about our students. The community of SLO Liaisons meets regularly
to discuss progress toward our goals for Outcomes Assessment, Student Learning, Student
Success and Equity. We will support each other in discussing our challenges as well
as our successes. We will support each other in striving to continuously improve the
college for our students. This community is made up of department chairs or the department's
designated assessment person, as well as any interested faculty or staff who are involved
in the work of outcomes assessment.
Please join in our collective effort to demonstrate student learning across the campus,
using the wonderful tools that Canvas provides.
Community of SLO Liaisons
The SLO Coordinator maintains the current list of SLO liaisons for each department or unit.
Are you a new SLO Liaison? Please enroll in our Canvas course on Outcomes Assessment.
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Role & Responsibilities
Each department should choose an SLO Liaison to help keep the department on track
with their scheduled assessment plan. The following are the primary responsibilities
recommended by the Grossmont Outcomes Assessment Task Force:
- As needed, attend SLO workshops or training sessions, and in particular stay up to
date on Nuventive [formerly TracDat] training; and in turn, train department peers;
- Assist the department with maintaining the assessment plan;
- Keep current on best practices in outcomes assessment by attending all college-wide
professional development activities related to outcomes assessment, and report back
to your department on the information gained at these events.
To ensure currency with assessments, liaisons may wish to adopt the following timeline:
A. The semester before scheduled assessments:
- Send out an email reminder to members of the department/unit informing them of upcoming
SLO assessments (e.g., send out a notice in the spring about assessments scheduled
in the fall). In this email, remind all faculty about the need to include SLOs on
course syllabi so that students are informed about what skills, knowledge, and abilities,
they can expect to learn by the end of the course.
B. Before the flex week department/unit meeting:
- Verify that assessment date(s) have been scheduled for the upcoming semester.
C. Before census date each semester:
- Verify that the SLOs on syllabi for the department are correct. Complete the SLO Syllabi
Verification form.
D. By week 10 of the semester:
- Ensure that the appropriate faculty member(s) have uploaded assessment results for
the previous semester's assessments into Nuventive [formerly TracDat].
- Consult with the faculty members involved in the assessment to ensure that they have
analyzed the results and have an improvement plan in place. Remind these faculty
members to upload the improvement plan as well as the date of the next assessment
into Nuventive.
Nuventive
Access Nuventive Improvement Platform to enter assessment results.
Training in Nuventive is provided in the Canvas resource course.
Syllabi Verification : Confirming Alignment of Syllabi & CORs
Syllabi Verification : Form for Confirming Alignment of Syllabi & CORs
This is our new College-wide process of verifying the accuracy of SLOs in syllabi
each semester. The inclusion and accuracy of these SLOs are an important part of the
way we ensure clarity and consistency in our teaching and learning.
You will need to confirm that you have performed a check to ensure that all course
syllabi in your department have current SLOs included in them. It is a good idea to
provide all faculty with a copy of the most current Course Outlines.
The official verification is due by the census date.
Late-start classes: If you have a working process for checking - and it already includes the review of
late-start classes - you can use this form to verify the checking process is happening
and working by Census for full-semester classes - and we will trust that it will include
the late start classes. Be sure to have faculty re-submit syllabi if you discover any missing or incorrect
SLOs before sending them to your dean.
Templates & Resources
Need to Make Changes to SLOs?
If you need to make changes to existing course SLOs (by adding, modifying, or deleting)
or PSLOs (program-level SLOs), please use the SLO Change form. Please note: this form is for current course outlines and must be submitted according to Curriculum deadlines and processes.
If you are changing elements of a course outline as well as the SLOs, please go to
the Curriculum web page and use the Course Modification form.