Welcome to IVC Tutorials for Using eLumen!

Step-by-step Instructions for Stating and Assessing SLOs

Approach I: Creating a SLO to Assess in all Sections of a Course

(This is for creating course level SLOs; however, this could serve Course, Program, or Institutional Level SLOs)

This section is for SLO “Coordinators” AND Instructional faculty only:

If you are a “Coordinator” or “Assessment Leader,” then you can write SLOs and create assessment plans that will apply to all sections of a course (see steps 1-5 below). If you are not a “Coordinator,” but are an instructional faculty member, then you do not have these features, but will still be able to review recommended assessments, accept the ones that you choose to use, and assess and score your students (see steps 2-5 below).

If you want to enter a SLO at the course level in one or more sections of that course, click on these tutorials:

1. Writing a SLO and Making Assessment Plans

2. Prepare Assessment for Implementation

3. Enter Students’ Scores

4. View Class Scores

5. Enter Action Plans

Approach II: Creating a SLO to Assess in all Sections of Different Courses

(This is for Course, Program or Institutional Level SLOs that could be tested in different courses)

This section is for “Coordinators” AND Instructional faculty only:

If you are a “Coordinators” and you want to be able to enter a SLO at the department, program, or institutional level and you plan to conduct assessments of that SLO in multiple sections of different types of courses (e.g., Psychology 1, Psychology 2, and Psychology 10), click on these tutorials (steps 1-5): If you are not a “Coordinator,” but are an instructional faculty member, then you do not have some of these features, but will still be able to review recommended assessments, accept the ones that you choose to use, and assess and score your students (see steps 3-5 below).

1. Creating and Entering Department or Program SLOs and Making Assessment Plans

Side note: How to Link Different “Achievement Areas” into a Group

2. Preparing Assessments for Implementation (for Use in Multiple or Different Types of Course Sections)

Side note: How to Make Rubrics through “Shared Parameters”

3. Accepting Assessment Plans (all instructors must accept the suggested assessments for their particular course offerings)

4. Entering Students’ Scores

5. Viewing Class Scores

6. Entering Action Plans

Other things you might want to do in eLumen:

Create an assessment using a rubric with multiple dimensions (e.g., grading one paper on clarity of a written paper, quality of the citations used, clarity of the thesis statement, etc., which are components of the overall grade). These multiple dimensions are created when you create multiple specific SLOs that are attached to one general SLO. When you score your students, these multiple dimensions will be included underneath each students’ name.