Beyond Grades—Comprehensive Student Assessment Using Common Desktop Tools

As the pressures of increasingly large lecture classes combine with shrinking support staff-- student assessment is often reduced to an anonymous equation in a gradebook. Simultaneously the limitations of one-dimensional assessment schemes are creating pressure to provide multi-dimensional assessment for students in order to differentiate student performance. The questions becomes, “How does an instructor provide feedback to students in an efficient and effective way?” It might surprise you to learn that the answer is sitting on your desktop.