Do you have a challenge with feedback or assessments for your course?

Are you curious about different approaches to feedback and assessment?

We invite instructors to join a new Feedback and Assessment Learning Community, facilitated by CITL, to discuss and work through your challenges with your colleagues. Together, participants will identify, explore and integrate effective, inclusive assessment and feedback practices that ultimately improve your teaching and learning practices.

This active learning community includes:

• Facilitated sessions.
• Collaborative and reflective activities.
• Self-guided learning.

The first 90-minute community session is 2-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9 in CSF 1203. Please register in advance online.

Goals and Guiding Principles

The community is learner-centred and guided by the following principles:

• Participatory: Learn with and from each other by sharing experiences, strategies and challenges.
• Supportive: Build knowledge, explore solutions and take practical steps toward creating inclusive, effective assessments.
• Outcomes-based: Ensure assessments, activities, materials, technologies and teaching practices align with intended learning outcomes.
• Evidence-guided: Ground decisions in scholarship and innovative practices.
• Continuous improvement: Encourage reflection, professional growth and iterative design of feedback and assessment.
• Scholarship-informed: Apply scholarly research to evaluate assessment strategies, share findings and contribute to collective learning.

Learning Outcomes

By joining the community, instructors will have the opportunity to:

• Reflect on their values and beliefs about assessment and feedback.
• Explore examples of effective assessment and feedback practices.
• Connect assessments and feedback directly to course learning outcomes.
• Use diagnostic, formative and summative assessments to support learning.
• Apply a variety of assessment strategies to let students show what they know.
• Create feedback approaches that guide student progress and improvement.
• Set meaningful goals for enhancing their assessment and feedback practices.
• Build an action plan to work toward those goals.
• Evaluate and share the impact of new strategies, including insights from students.

To participate in the Feedback and Assessment Learning Community, please register online. For more information, please contact: