WIDS OVERVIEW

Terri Johnson

WIDS Consultant

Online—Access Anytime/Anywhere

Custom URL and banner for your college

Can be connected to active directory

Organization

Program

Course

Three Design Modules

Your Home Page

Find Any Program or Course in Your College

• Never lose a course! • Always work with the most recent version.• Simple search capability

Program Module

Set up the program (program and related outcomes)

Assign outcomes to courses Build course configurations Design program PATs (TSA) Create program improvement plans

Role-Based Editing

Decide who can VIEW and who can VIEW

AND EDIT

Assign Roles by Project

View and Edit Managed Through

Roles

Develop/Associate Outcomes

Define criteria too

Managed by the college. One change

at the college –edits appear everywhere.

Build a Course List

Associated

Courses

Child Courses• Courses the program owns. • Course information can be edited

here.

Assign Outcomes Assign outcomes to courses using a matrix

Use levels you can

customize

Configurations

Layout multiple configurations:• Full time• Part time• Certificates

Layout courses in semesters

or terms

Design Scoring Guides and. . .

Multi-Columned Rubrics

Store your TSA rubric in

WIDS

Assign the Rubric to a Course where it will be used!

The rubric will appear

in the course where

assigned!

Create Program Assessment Plans

If desired base it on a rubric in

WIDS

Link in documents or assign to someone in

the organization

Analyze Results

Plan for Improvem

ent

Request Approval

Review

Write review Item under review User Date

Approve Pending

Approve or decline Item under review Future date User Date Reviews

Revision and Approval History

Course Module

Design a course Layout a syllabus Create learning plans Create performance assessment tasks

(rubrics/checklists/scoring guides)

Courses

Course Outcome Summary: Course information that belongs to the college (i.e.

course description, number, credits, outcomes) Common for all sections of a course Subject to approval Requires an editing role to make changes

Course Outcome Summary

DEVELOPERS CAN CREATE AND EDIT

ALL USERS CAN VIEW AND USE DATA TO CREATE A SYLLABUS

They cannot edit approved data

COS: College Owned Data

Populate data

common to all sections

Associate learning plans and PATs with the course so

they are accessible to all faculty

Learning Plans and PATs

Curriculum the Faculty Owns – Shared or Not

Curriculum the College Owns—Shared with all

Faculty

Share Learning Materials

Upload and link related

learning materials for sharing and

storage

Courses

My Syllabi: Belongs to the individual instructor Uses course information (read only) to

build a syllabus

Syllabus

Create a master

syllabus as a starting point for

other faculty

Start with a copy of your

previous syllabus

Syllabus

Start Date controls version of Course

Information used for the Syllabus

Read Only Course Information

NO EDITVIEW ONLY

Syllabus Schedule

Create Syllabus by day, week or session

Add up to four

customized columns

Submit Syllabus for Approval

Approve Syllabi and Archive

Hotlink to Syllabus Reports

Once approved cannot be deleted