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 Student Learning Outcomes

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


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 Area F outcome 1
GE Area F outcome 2	GE Area F outcome 3	GE Area F outcome 4
GE Area F outcome 5
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

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

All students who began at Fresno State in the Fall 2018 semester or later have an ePortfolio. The ePortfolio displays in Canvas, along with the courses you are taking. Before Fall 2023, students were responsible for uploading designated assignments to their ePortfolio. This system for submitting assignments has changed.

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. **

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