WIDS Blog

Colleges have curriculum information in multiple places: program details may be on the college website, course outcomes on a teacher’s syllabus, and a syllabus in the Learning Management System (LMS).  How can colleges guarantee that information is accurate, consistent, and available to everyone who needs it?

Follow a WIDS and WTCS collaborative process for developing prior learning assessments. 

Assessment data is helpful if it is used to affirm student success or to confirm a gap in student learning is evident. WIDS Outcome Assessment Planning and Analysis function helps you continue to focus on what's really important -- student learning.

You oversee accreditation review at your college. You have curriculum. You have assessment plans and results. You've the established process for quality review and have all documentation stored...somewhere. Learn how Blackhawk Technical College (BTC) used WIDS for their HLC AQIP Action Project needs. 

If you're in education, you've been in the thick of needing, right now,  the correct document, curricular pieces, or assessment reports. But, often you can't easily find what you need and when you do, you're not 100% sure you have the latest data or document version.