2. Background Story
• Gov’t of Ontario was giving money to various
projects around productivity and innovation
• University of Guelph and four other D2L
clients (McMaster, Mohawk College,
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier) part of the project
to work with D2L to improve
Analytics/Insights
3. Timeline
• September 2013 – submit proposal for
funding
• November 2013 – proposal accepted
• November 2013 – budget for spending from
April 2013, write a mid term report
• March 2014 – budget for spending up until
March
• June 2014 – start doing the work
4. Life Sciences
• Looking for alignment between course &
program outcomes
• Fall 2014 – one course, one outcome
• Winter 2015 – three courses, five outcomes
• Spring/Summer 2015 – five courses, all
outcomes
• Fall 2015 – full program
5. Geography and Earth Sciences
• Looking for alignment between course &
program outcomes
• Fall 2014 – four course, two outcomes
• Winter 2015 – six courses, three outcomes
• Fall 2015 – all courses, all outcomes
7. Org Structure
• Create “shadow” structure to the Org
– In our case Program
• Add competencies at the Org level
• Add competencies at the Program level
• Add objectives at the Template level
• Add activities at the Course Offering level
• Connect Offering > Template > Program
9. Lessons Learned
• Logic of Competencies are too rigid
• Year over year? How to manage?
• Introduced/Practiced/Mastered classification
• Global reporting was slow
– Fixed by D2L
• Structure of D2L system can be flexible
– Using the DOME/OrgUnit Editor to connect
courses allows for multiple levels of reporting
10. What’s Next - Engineering
• 140 external standards that need to be
assessed per student
• 4 levels of achievement – will be assessed
with different competencies…
– Problematic as reporting will not recognize two
“distinct” competencies are related (eg. Level 1 –
Numeric Literacy and Level 2 – Numeric Literacy)
11. What’s Next - Continuing Education
• Fall 2014 will compare/contrast same course
delivered in a blended approach and a face-to-
face approach
12. Beyond “Next”
• Extending to Nursing, MedRadSci
– Both programs have external accreditation that
must be reported to
– Both have unique challenges in the types of
information they require
• Reporting back to D2L