The benefits of using the Creatrix Curriculum Mapping tool
The hustle behind curriculum planning, designing, and mapping can be laboriously overwhelming to the team involved. We know this pain, for we have a team of experts from academic backgrounds, who have worked with institutions and experienced this firsthand. They have undergone similar groans and sighs when it comes to curriculum planning, mapping, and coordination. The blog in detail discusses the benefits of using the Creatrix Mapping Tool.
The reason for this plight in most higher education institutions is because instructional designing, curriculum mapping, assessment design, and outcomes mapping happens in silos, with the committee toiling in spreadsheets and documents.
Creatrix Campus higher education software offers a cost-effective solution that automates the entire process into an intuitively designed visual interface so the stakeholders involved in the curriculum mapping process can work in a centralized platform, and see an impact on the efforts everyone is making.
Benefits of Creatrix Mapping Tool
1. Helps build an Outcome-based Education curriculum culture with Bloom’s complaint curriculum mapping
Creatrix has an Integrated Curriculum Mind Mapping View (CMMV) that enables five levels of Bloom’s Complaint Mapping with threshold values for effective learning outcomes.
Faculty can map various levels of Bloom’s and Solo Taxonomies for an outcome-based education model. It then connects the learning objectives to assessments to see how the students fair in their understanding.
The system allows the generation of course and program-level reports, with individual student attainment reports, assessment activity comparisons, and more.
2. Design a curriculum that makes an impact
The tool gives you a clear picture of the learning objectives, competencies, and accreditation criteria, and how they impact institutional effectiveness and student success.
It helps create a learner-centered curriculum by connecting outcomes and assessments with Bloom’s Taxonomy standards, which produces skill-based students who are ready to face the future workspace.
3. Promotes quality assessment and instructional design
Creatrix Curriculum Mapping facilitates perfect instructional planning and quality assessment.
With visual mapping design, Creatrix gives you a big picture of the course-, program-level attainment of the student(s), so you can, keep your team organized, build a quality curriculum, identify learning gaps, and prepare for accreditation. The cutting-edge software system makes the whole process apparent and visually understanding to the whole team.
All that’s required is to simply map the program/course outcomes, assessments, syllabus, and questions with High, Medium, and Low correlations, and build a curriculum map that is easy to edit. The intuitive interface makes it easy to outline, organize, audit, and revise your curriculum, however, complex it may be.
4. Results in faculty engagement and outcomes-focused teaching/learning
Creatrix Curriculum Mapping tool greatly impacts faculty engagement and teaching. If you were to ask, “can a curriculum mapping tool change the way faculty teach?” Yes, it could.
Creatrix allows faculty to see their courses from a whole new way by nudging them toward a student outcome focus. As a result, they create the most engaging, well-directed, quality teaching with a completely mapped curriculum, that’s compliant with Bloom’s Taxonomy and assessment design tools.
The result of using the Creatrix mapping tool will help create outcome-based and competency-based education with thoughtful online tests that are aligned to institutional goals and objectives towards student success. Faculty in short get a renewed sense of life in their course design and teaching.
5. Fosters team to collaborate and innovate
There never can be a single person who could design and develop a curriculum for an entire program in higher education. The process involves teams of all shapes and sizes coming together to communicate in the same workplace.
Creatrix facilitates a centralized platform with open discussions, chat, tasks, and meetings, with the complete track of changes. Thanks to its communication and workflow tools that promote collaboration and unlock innovation across your institution.
The entire team can stay focused, be away from the strain of coordinating schedules, reduce or minimize the risk of overlooking standards, thus saving valuable time and resources by eliminating the need for spreadsheets or paper-based methods.
6. Streamlined curriculum designing process with powerful project and user management tools
Curriculum design has several stages and approval processes. Creatrix curriculum management tool gives users the chance to create structure, manage the process, and keep the curriculum progress moving. It has a suite of project management tools that offers a helping hand to Curriculum Managers, Assessment Coordinators, and Directors of Learning.
The role-based dashboards are inherently built to have a track of the task done and pending. There are task lists, form builder, workflow, report builder, security, boards, portfolios, and more just to plan, collaborate, deliver, and report.
7. A boon to the stakeholders—the saver of time and effort
With Creatrix’s cloud-based solution, higher education institutions get access to a patented curriculum mapping tool. The entire team comes along throughout the journey of implementation and offers adept support, frequent onboarding check-ins, necessary ongoing training throughout the year. The pieces of training are customized as per institutional goals and needs.
With the option to powerfully integrate with existing systems, the initial data importing process is extremely seamless, so institutions can focus on addressing gaps and working on continuous improvement.
8. Gives the confidence to face Accreditation
Creatrix Curriculum Mapping tool is more than a mere alignment tool. It has built-in reporting features that use real-time data to identify specific needs for improving curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
With the data available, the entire team is made to stay confident with its ability to demonstrate the level of teaching done with the intended results. What’s more special is the outcomes mapping dashboard that gives a one-click report of the mappings done with threshold achievement data, allowing stakeholders to proactively respond to addressing gaps at the right time.
Are you ready to transform your curriculum?
Creatrix Curriculum Management delivers a centralized place to design, manage, plan your curriculum to improve learning outcomes. With its unique visual curriculum mapping, the tool lets faculty, staff, and leadership focus on the big picture while revealing how learning objectives, competencies, and accreditation criteria impact student outcomes. Thanks to its communication and workflow tools that promote collaboration and unlock innovation across your institution.
If you wish to know more about how we have been helping institutions, contact us now or request for a live demo.
