Faculty Guide - What is Student Learning & Licensure (SL&L)?
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Efolio is the College of Education and Liberal Art's electronic portfolio system previously housed on Taskstream that is moving to Watermark’s Student Learning and Licensure (SL&L) effective fall 2023. The system is used for documenting and tracking candidate mastery of program competencies. Candidates upload core signature assessments through Canvas and faculty determine whether a candidate has met, not met, or reached the target on the identified elements/standards. The College is held accountable for ensuring that candidates meet these competencies in their programs to assure quality and provide data to support evidence-based accreditation.
What is Watermark – Student Learning and Licensure?
Watermark – SL&L will now be the electronic portfolio system used by the College for documenting and tracking candidate mastery of program competencies. Candidates will submit assignments on Canvas that will directly pass through to SL&L. Candidates must demonstrate competency at the 3.0 level on a four (4)-point scale for each Program Competency to successfully complete the program. Faculty can access the submissions through their Canvas course which will connect automatically to SL&L. After grading is complete in the external tool (SL&L), the grades will be transferred back to Canvas automatically.
How do candidates submit activities/assignments?
Candidates will access key assessments through individual courses on Canvas to submit work. Faculty can access the submissions through their Canvas course which will connect automatically to SL&L. After grading is complete in the external tool (SL&L), the grades will be transferred back to Canvas automatically.
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Providing Feedback
Feedback is an essential part of the evaluation process, as it helps candidates understand their strengths and areas for improvement. SL&L offers various waysfor faculty members to provide feedback to candidates. Comments can be left directly within text submissions or on the evaluation rubric. Below are two free annotation tools available outside of Canvas that you can use to markup documents when evaluating candidate work. These tools offer various annotation features and can be used independently. SL&L will be launching its own markup tool spring 2024.
Kami: Kami is a web-based PDF and document annotation tool. It offers a range of annotation features such as highlighting, underlining, drawing, adding text comments, and inserting shapes. It integrates with Google Drive and Google Classroom, making it convenient for evaluating student work.
Drawboard PDF: Drawboard PDF is a Windows-based PDF annotation tool. It provides features like highlighting, underlining, adding comments, inserting shapes, and drawing freehand. Drawboard PDF also supports stylus input for more precise annotations.
What if a candidate does not have an SL&L account?
Users are automatically enrolled in SL&L once they register for their program’s E-folio lab course and follow the steps provided in their Efolio Canvas course.
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs
Doctoral Programs
Certificate Programs
EDU 102 E-folio
MED 6102 E-folio
EDD 6102 E-folio
MED 6102 E-folio
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How to evaluate an activity/course requirement on SL&L …
Introducing SL&L Scoring: Click on the video to the right and watch it in its entirety. Note that WilmU uses the Grade Pass Back feature [not covered in this video] on some assessments, so please continue to Step Three for more information.
You should also BOOKMARK the video link for future reference
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Step One: Key assessments can be found in your Canvas course. It is important that you make sure it is in the correct module and point values are assigned. DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ACTIVITY as this will break the link to SL&L. Be sure to advise students in your course to submit to the correct assignment, particularly in courses with students from multiple degree programs (See example below). Click on the activity you wish to evaluate; this will transport you to a screen in SL&L.
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Step Two: Here you will see a list of candidates and their current status of the activity [awaiting submission, awaiting assessment, or done]. Click on the name of the candidate you wish to evaluate.
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Step Three: Evaluate candidate’s work.
A. Click on the eyeball or download icon to review a candidate’s submission.,
B. Click on View Rubric Details to open the rubric in another window. Score the candidate’s work and provide meaningful feedback within the rubric.
C. The score component in SL&L is set to 100 points and uses the percentage calculated from the rubric. Enter the percentage points in the Scoring area (must be a whole number). When that value is sent back to the Canvas Gradebook, the LTI will take that percentage and convert it based on the number of points set for that assignment in the Canvas gradebook. Point values must be assigned in Canvas in order for the grade pass back feature to work.
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Requesting a Revision: You may return an item to a candidate by using this feature.
Note that if a revision is requested, candidates will not automatically see this request. To view any pending revisions request, candidates must log in directly to SL&L to manually check their notification requests by clicking on the bell icon located on their SL&L Dashboard. You may want to notify the candidate that a revision has been requested.
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How do candidates check their progress on assignments and required activities in SL&L?
Candidates should click on In Progress to view the status of their Program Competencies and Requirements
Candidates can click on Timeline to locate previous submissions?
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the recommended browser for SL&L? The recommended browser is Firefox or Google Chrome.
How can candidates view completed work from previous semesters?
How long do SL&L account memberships remain active?
Where can I get additional assistance or information related to my SLL account?
Why is the submit button greyed out for a candidate?
How will candidates know when a revision has been requested from an instructor?
The "Timeline" tab allows candidates to access completed assignments from previous semesters. All submissions are retained on their Timeline in the order they were submitted.
SL&L accounts are valid for each required efolio course until candidates complete their degrees.
Go to the Watermark Student Help Center from within your SLL account by clicking on the question mark icon in the upper right-hand corner of the SLL webpage, located here .
Candidates MUST submit all required activities through the Canvas activity link, NOT through the “SL&L Students” access point on the left course menu.
Candidates must log in directly to SL&L to view their Dashboard. From here, notifications can be located by clicking on the bell icon in the upper righthand corner.
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Contact Mentoring Services for help via phone at 1-800-311-5656 (follow the prompts) or by submitting a request for help
For more information contact: The Office of Technology, Assessment, and Compliance email: tac@wilmu.edu
