The Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Maryland had been working on a assessment system for a number of months. When they went looking for software to help them manage the process they were disappointed in the available tools. The tools they found were either too rigid, too complicated, or didn't work with their existing Course Management System, Blackboard.

Dr. Norman Sedgley worked with faculty to develop a library of rubrics in Waypoint®. Faculty from each department used Waypoint to assess samples of student work from key courses. Faculty also use Waypoint as a response tool to create exceptional feedback for students.

According to Salvatore Lenzo , a Loyola professor and Director of Information Systems, “Waypoint provides a means to collect data which allows professors to improve the way they teach, and provides academic administrators with enough data to improve the curriculum.  The best aspect of all is that Waypoint is non-intrusive, in that professors do not have to devote additional hours to assessment.  Grading and assessment become one process instead of two or even three.”

Drexel University's LeBow College of Business uses Waypoint as a course-embedded assessment tool, to compliment their eportfolio initiative and to assess oral presentations. They have also taken a unique approach to assessing student writing using outside assessors, detailed in the following article that appears in the January 2009 edition of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication.