{"id":8203,"date":"2018-04-27T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:57","slug":"canvas-data-nursing-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/27\/canvas-data-nursing-evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS uses Canvas data to improve Undergraduate Nursing program\u2019s clinical evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Lauren Stuart, Undergraduate Admissions)<\/p><\/div>\n

ITS Teaching & Learning data concierge Jeff Ziegler recently completed a project for the School of Nursing\u2019s Undergraduate Nursing program\u00a0that has greatly improved their student evaluation process.<\/p>\n

Working with clinical instructor Diane Accurso and student advisors Rachel Patterson and Chad Gorski, Ziegler designed and implemented a custom solution for their Professional Nursing Education (PNE) clinical course that uses data extracted from the university\u2019s Canvas learning management system to capture the final evaluations entered by each class\u2019s instructors in Canvas, and provides it in electronic format to the advising team. This data is critical because it not only represents the final pass\/fail clinical evaluation for students in the program, but it is also used for grading audits and disciplinary actions.<\/p>\n

A time-consuming, cumbersome process<\/span><\/h1>\n

The previous process for collecting final evaluations was a somewhat cumbersome, paper-based workflow that required each PNE instructor to enter their students\u2019 final evaluations into paper forms and drop them off at the advising office. According to Gorski, \u201cAt the end of each term, paperwork for approximately 700 PNE students from more than 140 PNE courses was stacked on a table in our office where they would sit until all evaluations had been received. Then the advising team would sit down together and begin sorting and filing them, a process which took about three weeks.”

We now no longer have to print, collate, or scan any of the information\u2014it’s all electronic with easy access in Canvas.<\/p>