The Waypoint Fellows Program is intended to help institutions build grassroots knowledge of rubrics and Waypoint, and to help faculty create exceptional feedback for students. Faculty can build, share, and use rich interactive rubrics to create exceptional feedback for students and generate meaningful assessment data.

The Fellows Edition includes connectivity to your institution’s Learning Management System of choice so that faculty can send feedback and grades to an online gradebook. LMS platforms currently supported include Blackboard Learn (v7.3 – v9.x), Blackboard CE/Vista, and Moodle (v1.7 – 1.9).

Participation in an introductory group webinar is required of all Waypoint Fellows.  

The Waypoint Fellows Program is free of charge.

Interested institutions or faculty simply need to complete a short proposal describing their use (or intended use) of rubrics and assessment. Participation in the Authentic Assessment online course is not required, but is strongly encouraged so that faculty can design the best rubrics possible while leveraging Waypoint’s strengths and networking with colleagues at other institutions.

Institutions interested in efficiently sharing rubrics across multiple courses/instructors and aggregating and data for reporting should consider a Team, College/School, or Enterprise Edition license.

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Fellows Program FAQ:
 

We intend the Fellows Program to help individual teachers create exceptional feedback for their students along with detailed data on student achievement. Institutions with Waypoint Fellows on staff can even install our Building Block, PowerLink, or Moodle Module to make it easy to send grades and feedback, in bulk, to online gradebooks. We do, however, hope that institutions that start with the Fellows program will consider a paid license to access Waypoint's powerful collaboration and analysis tools.

• Is there a catch? Some cut-off after which my institution will receive a bill?
  Fellows Program members can use Waypoint as much as they like. Our detailed support wiki is included in the license, but live support is not. The Fellows license allows individual faculty to create and use interactive rubrics, even to send feedback and grades to an LMS like Blackboard or Moodle, if applicable, but Fellows Program members cannot share rubrics with their colleagues or aggregate data across multiple assessments/instructors.
• Is there a time limit?
  The Fellows Program does require a formal contract, which is a legal formality to protect both parties. There is no license fee, and our standard contract lasts one year.
• As a Fellows Program member can I use Waypoint for peer review or self-assessment with my students?
  Absolutely. However, the Fellows Program does not cover TAs or outside assessors that you may want involved in your assessment and feedback initiatives.