Waypoint and Moodle

If you are familiar with Moodle and web-based software, it will probably be quite easy for you to get started with Waypoint via Moodle.

To begin using Waypoint with Moodle, you will need to install the Moodle Module which can be downloaded here.

Note: Waypoint is role-based, and identifies faculty, TAs, and students. Users with a General Administrator role in Moodle cannot fully use Waypoint. To use Waypoint to evaluate student work, a user must have the role of 'teacher.'

High Level Summary

From inside a Moodle course, make sure Editing is on. You will add the WpAssessment Activity to a Moodle page, just as you would add any other activity. The WpAssessment activity is based largely on the standard Moodle Assignment activity - it just adds connectivity to Waypoint and the option to provide students or outside assessors/TAs with access to rubrics to complete assessment, peer review or self-assessment activities.

Important: You must turn off pop-up blocking for your Moodle website and http://subjectivemetrics.com.

To gain access to Waypoint from Moodle you must add a WpAssessment activity to at least one page.

1. Make sure Moodle editing is on.
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2. Click on the "Add an activity" drop-down.
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3. Choose WpAssessment.
4. Fill out the basic information for a regular Moodle Assignment.
   • The process for creating a WpAssessment differs from the process for creating a standard Moodle Assignment only if you wish to create a specific kind of Waypoint rubric called a Waypoint Project. When creating a Waypoint Project you must add a "Reviewer Password". In a Waypoint Project, a student or an external reviewer uses this password to access interactive rubrics for peer review, self-assessment, or to take a course survey.
5. Click Next and then Continue to finish creating the WpAssessment.
   • Students can use the WpAssessment in much the same way they use a Moodle Assignment - to drop off their work for review.''

Access Waypoint and Evaluate Students

1. Click on the name of a WpAssessment in Moodle.
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2. Click on the resulting Waypoint Outcomes image to gain access to Waypoint.
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   • If this is your first visit to Waypoint, an account will be created for you automatically.

A new browser window will open containing Waypoint. Note that Moodle is still available in the other browser window, and you can work in Moodle and Waypoint independently from this point on.

Important: When creating an Assignment through your Course Management System, whether it be Blackboard (version 6.x - 9.x), Blackboard Vista/CE6/8, or Moodle, make sure there are no special characters (for example: !@#$) within the Assignment's name.

1. A necessary step is to click Synch Student Roster to bring your student roster from Moodle into Waypoint.
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   • Select Make visible in Waypoint only those students currently active in Moodle in the resulting pop up window.
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2. Click Continue. Your students, including first name, last name, and email address, will be pulled down from Moodle to populate your Waypoint Student Roster.

Note: The option for creating a reviewer record will allow you to set up peer review Projects in Waypoint for your students to review each others' work or self-assess their own work. This feature can also be used to give outside assessors, TAs, or similar assessors access to Waypoint's interactive rubrics. Uncheck this option if you aren't interested in peer review or self-assessment.

You can create Assignments in Waypoint, assess your students, and email feedback to them all without returning to Moodle.

Returning Feedback and Grades to the Moodle Gradebook

You can print feedback or email it directly to students from within Waypoint. You can also return feedback to the Moodle Gradebook.

Note: Only numeric grades are returned from Waypoint to Moodle!

To send feedback and grades from Waypoint to Moodle:

1. Create feedback for your students in Waypoint using the Evaluate page.
2. Select the Manage option from the Waypoint menu.
3. Select the Waypoint Assignment that you have used to create feedback.

Note: You should grade the Assignment using the Points Possible defined in the Moodle WpAssessment.

1. Place a checkmark in the ToCMS column (or choose individual students).
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2. Click Send results to CMS Gradebook (just above the Name column).
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3. Make sure the Moodle WpAssessment to which the feedback and a grade will be sent is correct.
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4. Click Continue.

Note: The Possible Points defined for the Assignment in Moodle are displayed. If the Assessment is not the one to which you want to send grades and feedback, close Waypoint, return to Moodle, and enter Waypoint through the WpAssessment to which you do want to return feedback/grades.

Feedback for each student, and a grade, is exported from Waypoint and sent to the Moodle Gradebook for the Moodle WpAssessment. The feedback is attached as a file. If you were to repeat the process, a second file would be attached to the response in Moodle (so feedback is never overwritten). The file is attached in much the same way you might attach an edited document manually to your response in Moodle. The grade is displayed as if you entered it manually.

Last modified 03/17/2010 10:43 AM by wp_client_services