Office of Institutional Effectiveness

General Education

STUDENTS: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

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.

Your GE ePortfolio will display each semester in your Canvas dashboard, along with your other courses.

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.

PLEASE DO NOT DELETE YOUR EPORTFOLIO COURSE FROM CANVAS. 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.

Contact Us

Douglas Fraleigh
University Faculty Director of Assessment and Professor of Communication
universityassessment@mail.fresnostate.edu
559-278-4292

GE Policies and Documents

GE Requirement Sheet 2020-2021 AY

GE Requirement Sheet as of 2018-2019 AY

GE Requirement Sheet through 2017-2018 AY

GE Writing Requirements 2012

GE Procedures

APM 215 GE Assessment Section Only

GE Program ePortfolio Handout for Faculty (GE Syllabi Requirements)

GE Student Learning Outcomes:

Rubrics for each GE SLO: Approved by the GE Assessment Sub-Committee

Rubrics for each GE SLO
Resources
GE Area A1	GE Area A2	GE Area A3
GE Area B1 outcome 1	GE Area B1 outcome 2
GE Area B2 outcome 1	GE Area B2 outcome 2
GE Area B4 outcome 1	GE Area B4 outcome 2	GE Area B4 outcome 3
GE Area C1 outcome 1	GE Area C1 outcome 2	GE Area C1 outcome 3
GE Area C2 outcome 1	GE Area C2 outcome 2	GE Area C2 outcome 3
GE Area D1 outcome 1	GE Area D1 outcome 2	GE Area D1 outcome 3
GE Area D2 outcome 1	GE Area D2 outcome 2	GE Area D2 outcome 3
GE Area D3 outcome 1	GE Area D3 outcome 2	GE Area D3 outcome 3
GE Area E outcome 1	GE Area E outcome 2

GE Areas
Resources
GE Area IB outcome 1	GE Area IB outcome 2
GE Area IC outcome 1	GE Area IC outcome 2
GE Area ID outcome 1	GE Area ID outcome 2

GE ePortfolio Program

All freshmen and transfer students admitted to Fresno State Fall 2018 will have a GE ePortfolio.

Faculty members teaching GE courses will designate an assignment that aligns with one or more of the GE Learning Outcomes for that GE area for students to submit to their ePortfolio. This designation should be made when setting up your course in Canvas. Once you have designated the assignment in Canvas, when students submit the assignment to you, it will be seamlessly copied and placed in the student's ePortfolio.

Resources for Faculty

There is a Canvas site for GE Faculty that contains information about GE Learning Outcomes, alignment of your designated assignment to one or more GE Learning Outcomes, and the Canvas GE designation tool (also available below), and other GE assessment topics. If you have not been added to the site, please email University Director of Assessment, Douglas Fraleigh (douglasf@csufresno.edu) to be added.

GE ePortfolio Designation Tool

ePortfolio Information for Students

Students access their ePortfolio through Canvas. All students admitted to Fresno State in Fall 2018 or later are automatically added to a GE ePortfolio course, which should display in the dashboard with their other courses. The homepage of the ePortfolio course has information for students about the ePortfolio program and links for submitting assignments. If a student cannot access their ePortfolio course, please check FAQ #5 and #6 at the link below.

If you have any questions about your ePortfolio, please see the following:

ePortfolio FAQ

Students are also welcome to email questions to:

Dr. Douglas Fraleigh, University Director of Assessment and Ms. JoLynne Blake, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence:

universityassessment@mail.fresnostate.edu

ePortfolio Information for Faculty, Staff, Administrators, and Stakeholders

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.

Resources for Academic Advisors

GE Program Portfolio Handout for Academic Advisors

Questions?

Dr. Douglas Fraleigh
universityassessment@mail.fresnostate.edu

Office Phone: 559-278-4292

JoLynne Blake
universityassessment@mail.fresnostate.edu

Analysis of GE learning outcomes reports:

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

The student learning outcomes for GE Areas D1 and D2 were evaluated during the 2021-22 AY. Student reflecton papers for Area D were also analyzed.

GE Area D1 Evaluation

GE Area D2 Evaluation

Student Reflection Papers for Area D

The student learning outcomes for GE Areas IB, IC, and ID were evaluated during the 2022-23 AY. Student reflection papers for areas IB, IC, and ID were also assessed.

GE Area IB

GE Area IC

GE Area ID

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