Hacking Your Course Assessments (Fall 2025)

November 3  – 23, 2025

Short Course

Description

How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you will examine the assessments in your course and assure they effectively and equitably measure student achievement. Key topics include:

• Selecting assessments that align with learning objectives
• Applying equitable practices to traditional and authentic assessments
• Crafting effective scoring rubrics and providing feedback, and
• Creating assessments with technology, like D2L Brightspace.

From the Facilitator

Direct link: Hacking Your Course Assessments Welcome Video (3:33 minutes)

Course Learning Objectives

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

1. Align an assessment tool with a learning objective to measure student learning. 
2. Create an assessment aligned with a learning objective. 
3. Create a rubric to support equitable outcomes. 
4. Build an equitable and aligned assessment plan. 

Materials Required

Prior to beginning this course, you should complete the following activities:

• Select a course and related assessments to which you’d like to apply these concepts
• Contact Tech Support to set up a D2L Brightspace “Sample/Sandbox” Course if you do not have one

Suggested Audience

Faculty (Full-time and part-time), Instructional Designers and Technologists, and Faculty Developers/Trainers, Assessment Coordinators, Institutional Researchers.

Reflect on your Professional Development

As you progress through this course, please consider how you can use the assignments as a way to highlight your work on your Professional Development Plan. Consider sharing your work with your leadership team.

Estimated Time Commitment

Most participants are able to complete this course by committing 4-6 hours per week.

Accommodations

The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
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Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
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Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.
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Questions?

Contact the Network for Educational Development.

Registration Required

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