Elumen is a SaaS platform designed to enhance higher education institutions' assessment of student learning outcomes through data management and analytics. It focuses on competency-based assessment, enabling institutions to address accreditation requirements, improve remediation strategies, and track student progress effectively. The platform aims to support community colleges in innovating their approaches to competency-based education, ultimately enhancing student skills and readiness for the workforce.

1. Competency-Based
Assessment with eLumen
September 30, 2014

2. eLumisena SaaS platform that
empowers higher education
institutions to perform data
collection, management and
analytics around student learning
outcomes assessment.
We generate insights from outcomes

3. When a new client
conversation
starts with…
“Can you help us understand
patterns of student learning?”
We’re going to have a GREAT
conversation.
“Can you help us do SLOs?”
I know I have some work to do:
students are taking a back-seat to
binder-building. We get it: you HAVE
to do it, but let’s reframe this…

4. We know a bolder
vision is possible;
our foundations
are Competency-
Based
When you have to… we’ve made it
easy for you to comply with your
accreditation reporting requirements
(and program review)
When you want to… we enrich
your institution’s understanding
and/or use of student outcomes
data by enabling:
➔ Per-Student Assessment
➔ Remediation Strategies
➔ Cohort Tracking
➔ Competency-Based
Approaches

5. Who does
this…?We have a
variety of schools
— but mostly
VERY BIG
Community
Colleges.

6. We think community colleges will
be big innovators in competency-based
education.
And we think their needs will transform the power of
outcomes assessment in higher education.

7. So: How can We “Do SLOs” Better?
Start with: Accreditation and Program Review.
But then let’s think about possibilities for:
• Co-Remediation
• Retention Risk Management
• Completion with Job-Ready Skills
• Equity Strategies & Reporting
• Articulation and Transfer
Let’s go on an Outcomes Journey…

8. PSLOs ISLOs
PSLOs Prof. Standards General Educat ion
Course-Level Out comes
PSLOs ISLOs
PSLOs Prof. Standards General Educat ion
PSLOs ISLOs
PSLOs Prof. Standards General Educat ion
BIO 101
BIO 102
BIO 104
BIO 201B BIO 203 BIO 204
Problem Co-Remediat ion
Screening for basic
skills can work—but
can sometimes screen
out students who
would better benefit
from Co-Remediat ion.
Adopt ing Competency-Based
assessments into curriculum
-
allows you to do early format ive
assessments of core skills such
as writ ing and math while also
engaging students in the skills
development t hey’ll need in
their program.
Wit h eLumen’s abilit y t o score
individual students, map
program-and
skills from course to Gen Ed outcomes, -
as well
as t rack Demographics, you
can send one set of remedial
students to the Writ ing Center
and another to ESL Mentoring.
Problem Retent ion
Specific skills can be
a challenge over t ime,
even if a student is
progressing through
their program.
Competency-Based offerings
allow you to build alternat ive
offerings that address specific
skills-gaps or skills-emphases.
eLumen allows you to define
alternat ive assessment st rategies,
as well as t rack both individuals
and cohorts over t ime. This
combinat ion of variable st rategic
initat ive and invidual student-t
racking can change what the
game for assessm- ent .
Problem Skills-Ready
St udent s—and t heir
fut ure employers—
-
want to know that
they are leaving your
skills-ready.”
inst it ut ion “ Are t hey?
Accreditor demands,
Program Review, and other
academic process supports
are reasons enough to do
some form of outcomes
modeling and assessment.
But t he real reason—t he
reason eLumen was formed
as a company—is t hat by
paying at tention to student
skills, by designing courses
and programs to deliver
those skills, we do better by
our students, enabling them
to live the lives they have
imagined.

9. “So… How do you make that
possible?”

10. Competency-Modeling
Great screen
shot #1:
Curriculum
Map
eLumen is the most-powerful tool available.
Great screen
shot #2: SI
Great screen
shot #3:
Distribution
Calendar
Painlessly align course
SLOs to program and
institutional SLOs (including
VALUE Rubrics
and Program Standards)
Assign Achievement
Expectations: Formative,
Course-Level, or Program-
Ending
Design Weighted Rubrics
with Assessment Modality,
Activity Type, and Evidence
Collection

11. Continuous Aligning to Strategies Improvement is a Process (not a Template)
Great screen
shot #1: SI
Great screen
shot #2:
Purpose Built
RFI
Great screen
shot #3:
Action Plan
detail
Align all activities that
feed program review in
a single view
Distribute Assessment
instruments and Action
Plans/Reflections
Monitor Activity and
Completion on Campus

12. Faculty Experience is Key Student Data Stays with Student, not Section
Great screen
shot #1: SI
Great screen
shot #2:
Purpose Built
RFI
Great screen
shot #3:
Action Plan
detail
Scoring Assessments is
Simple; Evidence
Collection is Easy
LTI enables real-time
integration with LMS
(Moodle is seamless)
Action Plans and
Reflections can be tied
to Assessments

13. Course-Embedded Changes the Game on Your Campus
Assessment
Great screen
shot #1: SI
Great screen
shot #2:
Purpose Built
RFI
Great screen
shot #3:
Action Plan
detail
Assessment Patterns
can be Discovered in
Real-Time
At-Risk Cohorts
Automatically Inserted in
Remedial Settings
Program Review and
Accreditation are One-
Click Report Options

14. A New Conversation Let’s Imagine… About Learning Outcomes
Accreditation and
Program Review
are first-order
NECESSITIES
(made easy).
Institutional
strategies for
Remediation,
Retention, and
Skills-Readiness
become POSSIBLE
Faculty can engage
Learners in their
Outcomes Journeys
with tools they own,
on THEIR terms.
eLumen can make that possible—while meeting you where you are today.

15. Let’s Talk.
Joel Hernandez
Chief Executive Officer
joel@elumen.info
612.501.4250