Assessment overview
Within eJournal, portfolios are comprised of many individual parts that together contribute towards an overall grade. This page provides an overview of what settings are available to tailor eJournal's assessment workflow to best fit your needs.
Representing a perfect score
The first step in configuring your assessment workflow is deciding what score represents a perfect score for the assignment.
It is still possible to give a student's journal a higher score, but the resulting grade will be capped based on the value you configure. This value is also used to communicate what the eJournal grade should represent within your LMS.
Configure the perfect score in the assessment model
Working with pass and fail
The perfect score does not have to be a numeric grade. For example, by working with 1 or 0 we can represent pass or fail.
Deciding on the assessment method
The second step in configuring your assessment workflow is deciding at which level the journals are evaluated.
Journals can be assessed based on their individual entries, given an overall assessment, or a combination of both. It is not required to assess individual entries to make use of an overall assessment or vice-versa.
Assessing individual entries
You can grade and provide feedback to each individual journal entry. By default, the sum of all entry grades forms the overall score of the journal.
If your assignment's assessment model is fairly straightforward, and does not require a rubric, simply grading each individual entry without adding an overall assessment to the journal could be a good fit for your workflow.
Read more about assessing individual journal entries
Do you not want to grade each individual entry?
An overall assessment might be a better fit for your workflow.
Overall assessment
In addition to (or: instead of) grading individual journal entries, you can also provide an overall assessment for a journal. This may include a rubric to structure the assessment criteria. It is even possible to automatically integrate grades given to individual entries as part of your overall assessment.
It is up to your workflow what avenue fits best. Combine the assessment options as you see fit!
When does assessment take place
By default an eJournal assignment is configured as a continuous process. Students work on their journals, teachers are notified of any updates, and a cycle of feedback and improvement takes place. If this is what you are looking for, you can skip this section, everything is already configured correctly!
In some cases you may want to delay the assessment until a student explicitly submits their journal for assessment. For this workflow we offer several settings, such as the ability to freeze journals once submitted for assessment, or the ability to mute updates about intermediate student progression.