Seton Hall University's Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) graduate program is granted full national recognition by the National Council for Teacher Accreditation (NCATE). NCATE request permission to publish the full report, as an exemplar of a successful accreditation cycle. The full report is available here. Seton Hall University describes its use of Waypoint:

Candidate data for all IDAT assessments is obtained using Waypoint software, making the grading of projects more manageable and linking accreditation standards to candidate learning outcomes a reality. Additionally, faculty have come together to share ideas for developing multiple aspects of rubrics. Faculty rdeveloped multi-purpose Waypoint rubrics that allow for grading candidate performance on multiple levels. The results are rich, authentic data that foster candidate learning. The education faculty link course projects to INTASC standards, state standards, and other professional affiliations, especially important for reporting candidate-learning outcomes.

The use of Waypoint through Blackboard has allowed the IDAT program to synchronize their course roster to the rubrics, making the process of reporting more efficiaent. There is tremendous benefit in sharing assignments and rubrics with other faculty and candidates. Many faculty members are encouraged to revist and expand upon their rubrics as well as to organize candidate/peer evaluations and even teams of evaluators that share assignments and rubrics. We have just begun to grasp the full impact of Waypoint on our teaching and learning environment; however, the evidence with regard to reporting is clear. Faculty now have the needed tools to work toward improving the quality of assessment. There is no doubt that we will continue to utilize Waypoint as a means of reflection for curriculum refinement, candidate feedbac and improvement, and quality assessment for meeting accreditation standards.

The University of North Carolina - Pembroke contracts with Waypoint Outcomes® to help improve writing instruction across the institution. As part of its SACS reaccreditation QEP process, UNCP is dramatically redesigning courses in multiple disciplines to include more writing. Waypoint "will allow the university to assess our progression, support classroom learning and ensure we achieve our milestones," said Dr. Elizabeth Normandy, Director of UNCP's Center for Teaching and Learning. "Waypoint is an intricate part of our 5-year plan," she continued. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes Chief Executive Officer Andrew J. McCann will speak at the Society for Applied Learning Technology Conference being held March 3-5 in Orlando, Fla. The New Learning Techniques Conference, Knowledge Management Track, includes best practices for successfully implementing learning management systems as well as factors in selecting technology. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes announces Michael Jones appointment to the newly created position of Director of Product Experience. “I am honored to lead Waypoint’s strategies and to be a part of the academic assessment industry in its infancy.” Jones said. “Waypoint leads the way in defining institutional standards and providing measurement tools to benefit universities and ensure student success.” “Michael’s deep experience building user-focused software will help fulfill Waypoint’s mission of uniting teaching and assessment,” Andrew McCann, chief executive officer of Waypoint Outcomes, said. Read More >>

Baker College Center for Graduate Studies contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to assist the graduate school in improving student communication and critical thinking in the classroom.

Dr. Jill Langen, dean of the master of business administration program at Baker College, said Waypoint helps the college better serve students. “This technology gives us the capability to provide individual feedback to support students in their learning process,” she said. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes Chief Executive Officer Andrew J. McCann speaks at the ninth annual Educause Mid–Atlantic Regional Conference.

McCann and co-speaker Craig Bach, associate vice provost for curriculum and assessment for Drexel University, will present a case history on how a Drexel faculty member successfully addressed issues of online student communication and assessment. They will demonstrate how rubric and self assessment technologies resulted in improved student learning data; better, more efficient and higher quality feedback to students; and development of course dashboards. Read More >>

South Carolina State University contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to assist the university in improving student communication and critical thinking in the classroom.

The College of Business and Applied Professional Sciences will implement Waypoint in an effort to achieve one of its top goals of improving student student's writing. Ten courses in the college will begin using Waypoint during the spring semester.

Dr. Barbara Adams, the university’s chair of Accounting, Agribusiness and Economics, said Waypoint will ensure academic proficiency and development. “By clearly defining the strength and weaknesses of students’ writing, this program will benefit them in all subject areas, not only business, and assist them in becoming overall better communicators,” she said. By providing a platform to improve student/teacher interaction, the university furthers its commitment to academic success, she added. Read More >>

St. Thomas Aquinas College contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to support National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education requirements and improve communication and critical thinking in the classroom. “Having a program that collects data decreases the possibility of human error in manually transferring data,” Dr. Suzanne Reynolds, the college’s associate professor of teacher education and NCATE coordinator, said. “We can dedicate more time to analyzing data to make curriculum enhancements rather than feeling the pressure of collecting it,” she said. Read More >>

The Bournemouth University presents a poster titled, "Enhancing student feedback on assessments using Waypoint" at Blackboard World 2009. Dr. Barbara Newland described Waypoint as, "truly enhancing student learning."

Bournemouth also presented "SUE @ BU - Evaluating every course using Blackboard", detailing its use of Waypoint to deliver surveys into hundreds of courses.

Kaye Shelton, from Dallas Baptist University, presented the session, "Assessing and Aggregating Learning Outcomes: Easier Than Herding Cats?" Dean Shelton discussed her program's systematic data gathering and analysis processes, but noted that the "best part to using Waypoint has been the faculty response." In particular, DBU faculty like being able to quickly create feedback and appreciate how Waypoint helps mitigate grade inflation.