Improving Student Learning at KSU

Kennesaw State is committed to enhancing student learning through effective assessment practices. The introduction of uHoo Analytics simplifies the assessment process for faculty while providing valuable insights to improve teaching strategies, curriculum design, and overall student success. By utilizing uHoo Analytics within D2L, faculty can make data-driven decisions that enhance both formative and summative assessments. Additionally, program coordinators can leverage the uHoo Program Coordinator Dashboard to gather and report assessment data.

Explore the available tools and resources to optimize your assessment efforts and contribute to continuous improvement at KSU!

uHoo Analytics 

It is KSU's mission to provide students an exceptional learning experience and to prepare them for life after graduation. If done well, assessment tells us how well we are fulfilling that mission and how to best improve our teaching strategies, our curriculum, and the student experience.

The use of uHoo Analytics will make the assessment process more meaningful and manageable for faculty, as well as more impactful for students. Consider visiting the ​uHoo Analytics webpage below to discover how to access and use the learning analytics that are currently available in D2L. These analytics will be helpful for both formative and summative assessment. This resource guide may be helpful as you decide which D2L learning analytics to access and how to use them to improve student learning, your teaching strategies, the curriculum, and/or your assessment instruments (i.e., test items and rubrics).

Please contact uhoo@kennesaw.edu if you have any questions about learning analytics.

View Introduction to uHoo Analytics

uHoo Program Coordinator Dashboards

Additionally, program coordinators may want to set up and use the new uHoo Program Coordinator Dashboard to collect assessment data and report findings. 
Please review the Guide to Setting Up and Using the uHoo Program Coordinator Dashboards for more information.

Please Note: We are currently piloting these dashboards. Through the pilot process, we may identify dashboard functions that need improvement.

Guiding Questions

Programs can make assessment more meaningful and manageable by:

  • Focusing on outcomes and measures most in need of improvement.
  • Discussing assessment results and improvement strategies at faculty meetings.
  • Implementing targeted strategies to improve learning and your overall program.
  • Reporting on the continuous improvement activities that are already taking place. 

Use the following questions to guide your discussions of assessment at faculty meetings:

Faculty Team Meeting: Guiding Questions about Assessment (PPT)

Academic Assessment Council

The Academic Assessment Council supports a process of continual self-evaluation and improvement at Kennesaw State University. The primary purpose is to oversee ongoing assessment to improve educational programs and student-learning. It seeks to foster full participation in outcomes-based assessment.

The Academic Assessment Council serves in a variety of ways:

  • Monitors the quality of program assessment results, reports, and plans.
  • Serves as a cross-campus forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and advice on methods and practices of assessment.
  • Keeps units apprised of expectations for assessment, including expectations related to KSU’s regional accreditation.
  • Works with those who engage in assessment activities to help them understand and enhance their activities.
  • Promotes collaboration and optimization of the use of shared tools and resources among areas.

Academic Assessment Council Membership

University Assessment Council membership consists of the assessment team members and the associate deans for assessment from each college. The council also includes select members from other areas of the university, such as CETL.

Additional External Resources

Additional external resources below to help support your program assessment efforts.