Nuventive

“We wanted to share our good news, we passed the NCA focused visit on assessment. They indicated one of the indicators of the college having built a culture of assessment was our work in using TracDat. We owe you a big thank you for your assistance through this process. We achieved 100% input from all academic departments of their current Assessment Plan and observations and transformations documented for one or more objectives. In 6+ months we are very pleased with our progress.”

Faculty Development Chair
McHenry County College

“TracDat is an important tool in managing the assessment plan process because it facilitates efficient and consistent collection and storage of important records related to the plan, the results, and implementation of appropriate changes that the data might suggest. Perhaps more important, the TracDat system is more than a record keeping tool. It is a system that helps clarify and guide assessment planning for the entire university.”

Dean of Natural Sciences
St. Edward’s University

“TracDat has played a significant role in our transition from a cumbersome paper–based system to a fully-electronic system for storing and organizing data. Now that the system is up and running, the number of individuals and departments that are able to access and utilize the system has grown significantly. The information doesn't just sit on a shelf and gather dust. It is now available in a format where all will be able to read and make better informed decisions associated with curriculum. And with the reporting capabilities of TracDat, we now have the tools we need to clearly communicate our findings to our stakeholders and accrediting bodies.”

Director of Sciences
Rock Valley College

“TracDat is a valuable tool for Merritt’s strategic planning process. It allows faculty and staff to access their web-based departmental/unit plans around-the-clock through a web browser. It also helps the college to implement a common language and culture for planning and assessment and drives the building of measurable action plans that directly support student learning outcomes.”

Vice President of Student Services [responsible for College Research and Planning]
Merritt College

“TracDat is a valuable tool that supports the collection and storage of evidence about campus-wide continuous program improvement efforts that will ultimately enable the college to track progress towards its mission.”

Research and Planning Officer
Merritt College

“TracDat is a unifying instrument that helps us report outcomes assessment in a consistent manner.”

Distinguished Professor, Graduate School &
Executive Advisor to the President
Bay Path College

“TracDat presents a systematic approach to the entire assessment cycle. The software provides the capability to coordinate objectives among all levels of the institution - from individual courses to institutional mission. In addition to allowing the management of a wide variety of assessment data, it also facilitates the use of assessment data for program evaluation and improvement. Needed program changes can be identified, followed-up and succinctly documented. TracDat provided faculty with a common understanding of the assessment process. The ease with which assessment plans can be documented and revised proved significant in gaining departmental cooperation for program implementation. TracDat was instrumental in helping us meet accreditation requirements.”

Associate Professor of Psychology
West Virginia Wesleyan College

“We are finding TracDat an excellent tool in keeping assessment a dynamic process versus documents that sit in file drawers.”

Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Assessment
School of Pharmacy & Health Professions
Creighton University

The most frequent comment from faculty regarding the adoption of TracDat has been “Why didn’t we have this sooner?” TracDat provides a shared “assessment vocabulary” for faculty in multiple departments and colleges. Department-level committees have found that TracDat has encouraged discussion about the substantive issues of assessment by helping to eliminate some of the uncertainty about the format or structure of an assessment plan. The organization of data for accreditation has also been well served by the implementation of TracDat, through the creation of “virtual departments” that reflect the standards of various external agencies. The most compelling aspect of TracDat, from my perspective, has been its focus on the observations, remedies, and follow-up that result from the assessment process. TracDat has served as a great reminder that the major goal of assessment is continuous program improvement.

Associate Dean
College of Education
Western Michigan University

“TracDat provides us with an excellent software package to manage our strategic planning and assessment processes. TracDat allows us to manage electronically a large number of planning and reporting units, is flexible, allows linkages to a number of external and internal goals such as accrediting agencies, and enables us to prepare reports easily. Its format supports the conceptual framework of assessment.”

Associate Vice President for University Programs
Eastern Kentucky University

“TracDat helped us tremendously to organize for our NCA visit. With its latest update, we have had more faculty interest in using it and have found it more effective in organizing our assessment efforts and linking them to various internal and external standards. We are looking forward to using features that allows us to create campus-defined units such as general education, integrative experience, etc. We passed NCA partially due to the effectiveness of TracDat reports as a communication tool.”

TracDat Coordinator
Mount Union College

“For years, we started and stopped with the assessment of student learning. We purchased TracDat for the purpose of a standardized, yet flexible approach to recording goals, objectives, and results. Faculty and administrators can use the system from their offices. This makes recording assessment-related data less arduous. The main benefit is that a big part of the training we received specifically for the product also helped to provide information on assessment in general, and has helped us make a big leap toward continuous improvement.”

Dean of Faculty Development and Assessment
University of Sioux Falls

“TracDat has really helped faculty and administrators document the evidence, analysis, interpretation, and decisions made about their program outcomes. In addition, it has helped identify areas where assessment connects with core values in undergraduate education and how programs tie into those values.”

Director of Assessment
North Carolina State University

“TracDat is a user friendly aid in the difficult task of organizing and reporting assessment information and results.”

Director of Assessment
Providence College

“We chose TracDat after a lengthy and systematic search because the solution fit the unique assessment needs of our institution and it was highly recommended by other post-secondary institutions. In particular, the Dynamic Labeling feature of TracDat facilitated the transition from the paper process to the electronic environment. We avoided confusion with our users by continuing to employ the same terminologies that they have grown accustomed to in prior years while at the same time adopting a new electronic process.”

“We are proud to have developed a virtual tour of our assessment process for our WASC accreditors prior to their arrival on campus. TracDat played a large part in making this project possible. We gave our visiting team full access to TracDat because we are confident that our growing body of assessment evidence would give our accreditors a chance to explore a wide array of materials ranging from assessment plans and reports to student artifacts. TracDat is delivering on the promise of helping Guam Community College substantially improve the process for demonstrating continuous improvement”

Asst. Director
Office of Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness
Guam Community College

"TracDat is helping us transform the student assessment process from a cumbersome obligation for faculty
to an easy, accessible and exciting way to continuously improve teaching and learning."

John Thibodeau
Associate Vice President
Institutional Effectiveness
Gateway Technical College

“In my first review of the application, I immediately recognized the value of TracDat.”

“CCBC found that TracDat’s reporting capabilities are very valuable, particularly those that illustrate the alignment between course objectives and the program and institutional objectives.”

“TracDat prompts the user to consider program goals and how they relate to institution goals...if the relationship cannot be determined, the program goal must be reexamined. This goal and objective alignment is essential at every level.”

VP for Learning and Assessment
Community College of Beaver County

“TracDat has not only proved to be an effective platform for our planning, assessment, and reporting needs, but has also helped energize the planning and evaluation efforts across the institution. Because the system works well and its value is evident to the campus users, they are more receptive to the university’s efforts to improve unit plans and the evaluation and documentation of results.”

Executive Vice President and Chief Planning Officer
Our Lady of the Lake University

“Nuventive really listened to the customers when developing TracDat.”

Institutional Advancement Coordinator
Blackhawk Technical College

“Through the use of TracDat, we’ve made significant progress at taking different forms and processes, then implementing a unified system for sharing data collection and reporting the information. TracDat has demonstrated to the Higher Learning Commission that Blackhawk is serious about student outcomes assessment. With the work we’ve done the past few years, BTC has assumed a leadership role in the area of student outcomes assessment. We’re on the forefront of the use of TracDat, and as a small technical college, we’re excited about what this can do for us.”

Learning Services Coordinator
Blackhawk Technical College

“TracDat makes it easier to pinpoint whether students are meeting standards and to change the curriculum in progress”.

“TracDat is not just for compliance. It does make the accreditation process much easier, but you have to think of student outcomes assessment in terms of continuous improvement. TracDat helps you look at your institution and your program and your learning. If you’re just using it for compliance, you’re missing the point.”

VP of Learning Support
Blackhawk Technical College

“It (TracDat) provides the best reporting of any solution we considered—we can get great information from our database without a whole lot of effort. And the level of discussion that can now occur is amazing. Instead of debating definitions and details, we can focus on how to move forward.”

“We strive for continuous improvement. We wanted an application that would guide us through ongoing and systematic improvement, rather than tying our assessment activities only to accreditation visits every five years. TracDat automates the assessment process by providing a best-practice framework for how we approach continuous quality improvement.”

“A key benefit of TracDat is its participatory approach. The application guides the contributors through a collaborative process. It has ‘stopping points’ along the way for others to read and contribute to content. TracDat gives faculty and staff the opportunity to actively participate in the assessment process, to better understand their role in it, and to understand why the process is so important. It is much more collaborative and dynamic than passing around an assessment on a piece of paper.”

“The College has always had a strategic plan in place, but it was difficult for individuals to understand how their assessment plans related to it and supported it. TracDat is configured to enable departments and programs to easily link their goals and objectives to the internal goals and objectives we’ve identified in our strategic plan. Also Delgado has external standards that we must also comply with, for example, those required by specialized and regional accreditation associations. With TracDat, we can align the same goals and objectives that support our mission to those external requirements. We no longer need to write or maintain separate plans or reports. It’s all in one place, and it is easy to see how an objective supports an internal or external standard. Even more critical, it’s easy to see if we’re not addressing a particular goal or requirement so that we can put corrective action in place.”

“If we can’t identify our faults, we can’t fit them and become an even greater institution. TracDat will help show us where we need to spend our time and money to become even more learner centered.”

“We didn’t have a common understanding of assessment, nor were we able to have productive assessment discussions on our campuses, but TracDat is helping us. The process is straightforward and easy to follow.”

“We can make decisions based on the support of learning outcomes, not just on budget. Now our responses in terms of resources and budget can be tied to desired outcomes, not just a department member telling us he needs more staff.”

Director of Institutional Effectiveness
Delgado Community College

“The response from the division chairs, our first users, has been very positive. People are eager to use it because they see it as something that will be productive. The navigation for the product is excellent. It is intuitive and easy to use.”

“In the past, faculty have seen planning and assessment as an added chore, not something that will move the College forward. TracDat will help us change that mindset. The linkage will make it easier for individuals to understand how their assessment and planning efforts support the goals of the College.”

“TracDat steers everyone to focus on student learning outcomes, at both the department level and the student level. In the past everyone’s work was focused on the process of managing departments. We didn’t measure student outcomes. TracDat will help us emphasize student learning, which is ultimately the purpose of the College. And it will help us fulfill the requirements of our accrediting agency.”

“Because the solution is readily accessible, we will do a better job of planning and assessment. It will also let more people throughout the College understand better what is taking place.”

“In the past, we were unable to link our various plans together. We have a marketing plan, distance education plan, student recruitment and retention plans, technology plans –12 plans altogether. However, our individual units haven’t been able to align any of their work to these plans that are critical for the College; and not one of the 12 was linked to the College’s strategic plan. With TracDat, we have a mechanism where the planning is linked all the way down to the lowest, budgetary level and all the way up to the strategic plan. It will also be an excellent tool for tracking major projects.”

VP of Administrative Services
Wharton County Junior College

“TracDat is a valuable tool for the College’s strategic and institutional planning. The application guides contributors to align their program, department, and unit goals to the internal goals and objectives that support the College’s strategic plan.”

President
Wharton County Junior College

“Before, we would print three years’ worth of unit objectives and distribute them every fall. Now people will be able to view the information whenever they want, even on a day-to-day basis. This will make it easier for them to see trends and change direction as needed. Having the information and tools available to the departments will also encourage them to take ownership of their goals and be more accountable.”

Institutional Research Technician
Wharton County Junior College

“The ability to enter data at any time also will improve reporting. People can enter information at any time rather than trying to remember everything that has taken place and recording it annually.”

Institutional Research Programmer Analyst
Wharton County Junior College