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Taskstream How-to’s and Resources


    Taskstream’s Accountability Management System (AMS) is a web-based portal designed to help you manage and document processes for assessment and continuous improvement. The archiving capabilities of AMS save time by minimizing the repetition of work from year to year, accreditation cycle to accreditation cycle. For example, existing assessment plans can be copied and adapted for the next cycle, enabling you to demonstrate long-term progress more easily. Within the system, academic programs, general education courses, and co-curricular units are referred to as participating areas. Each participating area has been assigned to a workspace—that is, a template that provides data entry categories and structured prompts to guide the inclusion of important information. Depending on your role, you may have access to a single workspace or more than one. Although the workspaces may look slightly different from one another, they’re all navigated the same way. The resources below will help you learn to navigate AMS workspaces.

     

    -Adapted From The University of Alabama’s “Taskstream AMS Quick Start Guide: Navigating a Workspace”

    Taskstream Resources and Presentations

     

  • Taskstream Log-In

    Login to Taskstream Powerpoint Presentation

  • Student Learning Outcomes

    To document program, course and administrative outcomes in Taskstream and create alignments for a complete curriculum, please see the resources below:

    More specifically these resources will assist you to: 

    • Enter and Edit PLOs and Outcome Sets in Taskstream, including:
      • How to “Hide” Discontinued Outcomes
    • Align or “Map” PLOs to other sets, including:
      • Prescribed Standards Sets
      • ULOs
    • Add Learning Outcome Sets to Annual Cycles
  • Curriculum Mapping

    To learn to leverage Taskstream to create a curriculum map to document a program’s curricular story and how to share a map with others, please see resources below:

     More specifically these resources will assist you to:

    • Create and Edit Curriculum Map in Taskstream
      • Adding Courses/Activities to Maps
      • Adding Headings to Maps
      • “Marking” Maps
     
  • Assessment Plans including Direct and Indirect Measures

    To be able accurately and thoroughly report all aspects of direct and indirect measures in Taskstream, please read below:

    More specifically these resources will assist you to:

    • Accurately and thoroughly report all aspects of a measure, including:
      • Detailed Description
        • Course name, expected student enrollment (for example: Juniors, pre-program-admission, etc.), venue (for example: Final Exam, First Speech, BFA review, etc.)
        • Type of measure, for example: exam, speech, evaluation, etc.
      • Benchmark
        • Write a Benchmark that accurately depicts the expected data of the measure
      • Implementation Plan
        • When, how often and next cycle of collection
      • Key/Responsible Personnel 
  • Assessment Findings including Data Informed Decisions

    To be able to clearly and thoroughly report student learning assessment data in Taskstream, please read below:

     More specifically these resources will assist you to:

    • How to report data accurately and clearly
      • Summary of Findings that includes frequency/demographic information of students (number of students, level, etc.), date/semester of measure, item/rubric analysis, etc.
      • Sampling Methodology if applicable
      • Include all raw substantiating evidence
  • Action Plans for Continuous Improvement

    To learn to accurately and thoroughly report all aspects of action planning in Taskstream, please read below:

    More specifically these resources will assist you to:

    • Create “New Operational Plan” in Taskstream per Annual Cycle
    • Accurately and thoroughly report all aspects of action planning, including:
      • Action Summary
      • Implementation Timeline
      • Responsible Personnel
      • Priority Level to Leadership
  • Reporting and Archiving in Taskstream

    To learn how to run reports in Taskstream for the purpose of assessment and accreditation and how to archive documents for continuous improvement, please read below:

    More specifically these resources will assist you to:

    • Run reports by Program Workspace for the following:
      • Alignment between Outcome Sets
      • Assessment Detail and Summary of Annual Cycles
      • Operational Detail and Summary of Annual Cycles
    • Use these reports for internal and/or external assessment and accreditation reporting
    • Use the Archive Documents space to save all internal and/or external assessment and accreditation documents

Taskstream How-to’s and Resources
Contact Office of Accreditation & Assessment

Phone: (870) 972-2989

Room: 610
Dean B. Ellis Library

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 1945
State University, AR  72467