GE ePortfolio Program 

Dr. Douglas Fraleigh, University Director of Assessment
Office Phone: 559-278-4292

Ms. JoLynne Blake, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence
universityassessment@mail.fresnostate.edu

All students who started at Fresno State in Fall 2018 or later have an ePortfolio.  The ePortfolio displays in Canvas, along with your other courses.  In the past, students were responsbile for submitting one assignment to their ePortfolio, designated by their instructor in each GE course.  This is no longer a requirement for students.

Fresno State has contracted with Canvas to create a new process for getting assignments into your GE ePortfolio, beginning with the Fall 2023 semester.  When you submit the ePortfolio assignment to your professor, the system will automatically put a copy of your assignment into your GE ePortfolio.  This means that you no longer need to submit the assignment to your ePortfolio yourself.  Furthermore, there will no longer be ePortfolio registration holds or graduation checks.

Your GE ePortfolio is very important because it is used by the university to assess student learning in GE courses.  In each GE course, your professor will select one ePortfolio assignment when they set up the course in Canvas.  This ensures that the assignment will be submitted to your professor and your ePortfolio simultaneously.  Your professor will assign the grade on the assignment.  The GE Assessment Subcommittee also reviews student work, but they do not assign a grade to you.  They report overall results for Fresno State in each GE Area.

The WASC Senior College and University Commission accredits Fresno State.  This accreditation is essential because only accredited universities may offer financial aid and issue valid degrees.  Our GE assessment process must be in good standing to achieve accreditation.  If you delete your ePortfolio course, we will need to work with you to activate it again, and that is a time-consuming process.

 ** PLEASE DO NOT DELETE YOUR EPORTFOLIO COURSE FROM CANVAS.  You can, however, hide the course from your dashboard. Click the three vertical dots in the upper-right corner of the card tile on the dashboard > Move > Unfavorite. This will add the course to your All Courses area. **

Comprehensive assessment of the GE Program Portfolio will enable Fresno State to do all of the following:

*further support student learning and student success by studying the results of our evaluation of student learning in GE courses.

*obtain valuable information about student learning from the brief reflections that students write outside of class

*maintain good standing with WSCUC which accredits Fresno State. Only Universities that are accredited can offer financial aid and issue valid degrees.

Welcome to GE Assessment

• All ten student learning outcomes for GE Areas A1, A2, and A3 were evaluated during the 2018-2019 AY. 
  • GE Area A1 Evaluation
  • GE Area A2 Evaluation
  • GE Area A3 Evaluation

• All student learning outcomes for GE Areas B1, B2, and B4 were evaluated during the the 2019-2020 AY. 
  • GE Area B Evaluation

• The student learning outcomes for GE Areas C1 and C2 were evaluated during the 2020-21 AY.
  • GE Area C1 Evaluation
  • GE Area C2 Evaluation