Office of Institutional Effectiveness – Administrative Support and Student/Academic Services Unit Assessment

Administrative Support Units: Offices or units that support institutional performance goals and strategic planning- assessed through operational objectives.

Student/Academic Services: Services or units that support student success and student achievement- assessed through student-focused objectives.

TRACDAT

SAGU uses the TracDat database to manage our institutional effectiveness processes. This includes planning for assessment, recording data, and following up on action plans that arise from the assessment process.
To log in to the TracDat program with your faculty or staff credentials, click here .

TracDat Tutorials

• Adding New OOs, Tools-Targets
• Choosing New Oos for the Year
• Using Filters to Display 1 Year
• Entering Data – Results
• Adding Improvement Plans
• Adding Follow-up to Improvements
• Adding a Document to the Repository
• Relating a Document to a Data Entry

TracDat Training Videos

These videos are designed to help you through the basic processes of the TracDat system. If you need help with a specific issue, contact [email protected]

(In all training videos, the term “non-academic” was used to describe all Administrative Support and Student/Academic Services Units)

• TracDat 5 Introduction and Overview
• Choosing Yearly Outcomes or Objectives and Using Filters
• Administrative Support and Student/Academic Services Unit- Entering Assessment Data/Results/Improvements
• Document Repository- Uploading and Using Documents in TracDat
• Administrative Support and Student/Academic Services Unit- Entering and Editing Operational Objectives/Outcomes
• TracDat Page Management- moving, retiring, filtering SLOs and OOs
• Entering Budgetary Needs as part of the Assessment Cycle

Basic Assessment Training:

• Introduction to Operational Objectives
• Operational Objective Overview
• Student/Academic Services Unit Student-focused Objectives Assessment (2018)
• Administrative Support Unit Operational Objective Assessment (2018)
• O/O Assessment Processes – Tools, Targets, Actions
• The Why’s and How’s of Administrative Support Unit Assessment – Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
• Steps for Successful Assessment