1. Aqua Training Webinar for Refinement Year Participants
Why assessment management is critical for your institution’s success

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Uploading Assignments, Artifacts and Demographic Data in Aqua
Andrea Costa
Janine Fusco
January 30, 2017
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3. VALUE Initiative
The Multi-State Collaborative (MSC) to Advance Quality Student Learning
Cross-institution, cross-sector project to assess essential learning outcomes with authentic student work scored by faculty using VALUE rubrics

4. Accessing Aqua for the Refinement Year
We will cover
Accessing the Refinement Year project with your account
Entering assignment information and uploading artifacts
Providing student demographics

5. Accessing the Refinement Year project with your account
What you need to know:
Taskstream will activate accounts after confirmation from AAC&U and SHEEO
If you had access for the Demonstration Year, your same account ( and password) will work.
You will get an notification from Aqua when your account has been activated.

6. Demo

7. Entering assignment information and uploading artifacts
What you need to know:
You will create an assignment in Aqua under “Manage Evidence” for each unique assignment from which you have collected artifacts.
After completing the assignment information, you will upload the artifacts by selecting “manage evidence” for the assignment.
Detailed student demographic information will be provided in a separate file

8. Entering assignment information and uploading artifacts
What you need to know:
Create an assignment in Aqua where you enter the “coversheet” information
Assignment name
Student Prompt / Instructions
Learning Outcome(s)!
Outcome dimensions (select no more than 2)
Answer key or supplementary attachments to support scoring
Assignment Metadata
Course Level
Assignment Difficulty
Course Discipline

9. Demo

10. Providing student demographics
What you need to know:
For the Refinement Year, this is a separate file that will be ed to
The file should cover your entire sample across all assignment
The student ID should be unique and match the ID’s used in the artifact upload
The file can include demographic records for all possible student submissions.
If you ultimately do not upload artifacts for a given record, that is OK. They will be excluded from reports.

11. Artifact data and student demographics: how they relate
Student ID
Course Code
Section ID
Term
Course Grade
Assignment Grade
Filename
Fall2016 A 95
Doc1.doc B 84
Doc2.pdf B+ 89
Doc3.docx C+ 78
Doc4.doc
Information provided for each assignment
Student ID
Birth Year
Gender
Race/Ethnicity
PELL Eligibility
Term
Major
GPA
Degree Level
Class Level
Credits Earned
1990
Male
Hispanic Latino No
Fall2016
Bachelors
Early
1952
Female
White
2.75
Associate
Late 43
1992
Black or African American
3.07 12
1986
Two or more races
Yes ;
3.65
110
1989 4
3.4
1987
Unknown
2.3
1978
1994
1997
1980
1983
Spring2017
1998
1996
Demographics provided in a single file

12. Questions and Discussion

13. Support: Documentation Mentoring Services help@taskstream.com

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