Pathways are a learning outline you can create for students to guide them through defined activities to demonstrate their learning. Pathways are made of milestones and requirements, which are activities designed for students to provide evidence of competencies. Reviewers will evaluate student work based on a strategy defined by the coordinator. Pathways can only be created by admins and instructional designers.
All the work students submit for the pathway, and badges they receive upon completion, can be added to their Portfolium portfolio.
As soon as students start submitting work for the pathway, you may no longer be able to edit portions of the pathway. The following restrictions apply:
Locked requirements, milestones, and pathways are not editable. Additionally, students are not able to submit additional work to a locked requirement, milestone, or pathway. Once a pathway locks, you cannot change the reviewers or review strategy.
In the toolbar, click the Pathways icon.
Click the Add New Pathway button.
In the Pathway Details pane, enter a name [1] and description [2] for the pathway. To add hyperlinks in the description, use markdown formatting. Type the text you want to link in brackets [3] and then type the destination URL between parentheses [4].
If you have Badges added to your assessment library, you can add a completion badge to the pathway [5].
To save the pathway details and move to the next step, click the Next button [6].
In the Milestone and Requirements section, you can define milestones for the pathway and the requirements to define a milestone's completion. Enter a name [1] and description [2] for the milestone. To add hyperlinks in the description, use markdown formatting. Type the text you want to link in brackets [3] and then type the destination URL between parentheses [4].
To add additional milestones, click the Add another milestone link [5].
In the Requirements section, you can add specific requirements for students to complete the milestone. To add a requirement, click the Add a Requirement link.
To set a requirement, click the desired requirement type. A requirement can be one of five types:
If you have Badges added to your Assessment Library, you can add a completion badge to the milestone.
On the Reviewers and Coordinators tab, you can assign specific users to be a coordinator or reviewer for the pathway. Coordinators can create and edit the pathway, and reviewers will be able to review and score submissions.
As the pathway creator, you will automatically be added as a coordinator to the pathway. To change your role or the role of another user, select Coordinator, Pathway Reviewer, or Both from the Role drop-down menu [1] next to the user's name.
To add a user to the pathway, type their name or email address in the search field [2].
Note: Requirement reviewers can be defined for project and experience requirement types. Adding a requirement reviewer only allows the reviewer access to their specified requirement. Requirement reviewers do not display in the Reviewers & Coordinators tab.
After you have defined your reviewers, you can define the review strategy for the pathway. Click the Review Strategy tab [1]. You can set how many reviews are required for each submission [2] and how the submissions should be distributed among the reviewers [3].
The review strategy can be configured in the following combinations:
When you have entered the pathway details, you will be prompted to review any incomplete steps before you can publish the pathway. To review and complete a step, click the Open Step link.
When you have reviewed and completed all the steps of the pathway, you can publish the pathway. To publish the pathway, click the Publish Now button [1]. To save the pathway to publish later, click the Save and exit to publish later link [2].