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STEP 1: Create a Community-Based Learning Agreement
Purpose of Community-Based Learning Agreements
To clarify expectations and learning objectives.
To keep a record of students involved in Community-Based Learning.
To facilitate communications with community partners.
To promote safety and reduce risk.
The CBL Program will work with you to create a submission process for Learning Agreements that best suite your CBL assignment/project
The CBL Program will work with you to create a submission process for Learning Agreements that best suite your CBL assignment/project
These steps are for the standard way Community-Based Learning Agreements are set up for CBL project(s)/assignment(s). The Community-Based Learning Agreement is located in under Surveys in your class dashboard.
Watch the video below on how to navigate the workflow for reviewing student learning agreement submissions in GivePulse.
Instructor provides information for CBL Learning Agreement (suggestion for where students can find this info: assignment/project description, syllabus, or course’s GivePulse group)
After making arrangements and reviewing the CBL Learning Agreement with their Community Partner, student completes CBL Learning Agreement using the CRN specific link for the course
Instructor & CBL Program are notified of submission
Instructor completes the initial review
Community Partner completes secondary review
CBL notifies student that they are able to start community engagement activities
GP_CBL Learning Agreement Review.movSTEP 2: {Optional} Creating a Learning Agreement for a specific Course Partnership
Use this type of Learning Agreement if you have made arrangements with a specific community partner for your course(s). This will allow community partners to sign off on a single learning agreement that can be applied to all students who engaged with them through your course(s).
As the instructor, you are responsible for communicating the CBL Learning Agreement Expectations with students and the community partner.
Please submit to the CBL Program with either hard signatures, electronic signatures, or email acknowledgement by the community partner.
This Learning Agreement will be applied across all students in your course who are engaging with the specific Community Partner
Students will still need to submit their portion of the Learning Agreement.
*Click on the button below to get started. Please note you will need to make a copy of the form.
STEP 3: Learn about Tracking "Impacts"
What is an Impact?
An "impact" is used as an umbrella term to describe all potential forms of community engagement. An impact most often represents volunteer hours served, but can also be used to track money donated, goods donated, training received, or a generic other. Other I would say is a good option for tracking deliverables where time might be hard to track like the creation of a brochure, editing a website, or building a tinyhouse. Impacts provide data for reporting purposes, to get feedback on the quality of the experience, and to better understand the impact of students efforts as part of your course.
As students complete their community engagement activities, they will be adding impacts in GivePulse. As an instructor, it may be useful to you to track if your students are making timely progress to meet their assignment/project goals.
View student impacts from the Course Dashboard. In the left side navigation menu, click "Impacts". From that drop down menu, click "Manage Impacts".
STEP 4: Learn how to Promote the Community Partner Database to your students
You can use GivePulse to search potential community partners and/or identify specific events that you could recommend to your students. The same goes for your students. Any community partner that is affiliated with us in GivePulse has acknowledge our Criteria for Community Partnership.
Search for Opportunities
There are a ton of filters, take note of the PCC highlighted in blue, you have the option to turn that filter off.
When you are logged in through PCC, GivePulse filters the search results for PCC affiliated groups. Deselecting that filter will allow you to see everything and all the groups on GivePulse.
You can toogle between events and group
Narrow down your search by distance
There is even a calendar view and map view
2. Promoting Opportunities
Once you find an opportunity in GivePulse, you can share it with students by selecting "Promote"
Promoting an event will allow it to be listed in your specific course’s list of opportunities
Select the Promote button
Select where (specific course) you want to promote the event
If you aren't seeing it listed in your course, please contact the CBL Program for assistance
STEP 5: Create a Final Reflection Survey
Creating a final reflection survey in GivePulse will allow the instructor and CBL office to capture important data for evaluating the CBL component of your course overall, as well as having a central place to track student experiences.
Create Reflection Questions
All the reflection questions have optional response fields - Students have the ability to answer, or not answer. When sharing this survey with students, you may want to instruct them about which questions you would like them to answer for your course.
Reflection questions include:
Learning Objectives: How did this project connect to your class learning objectives?
Obstacles: What problems or obstacles did you encounter and how did you resolve them?
Academic Impact: How did this CBL assignment/project enhance your academic growth (PCC experience)? How has it impacted your success as a student and the quality of education at PCC?
Engagement: How did this CBL assignment/project change/deepen/enhance your engagement with your classes, the PCC community, and the larger community that we live in?
Community and You: How did this CBL assignment/project support you to think differently about the connections between institutions, education, and community? What do you want us to know about your experience with the CBL assignment/project?
2. Invite your Students to Respond to the Survey
Option 1: Share this link: https://bit.ly/CBL_Final_Reflection
Any responses that indicate you are the instructor will be shared with you.
Option 2: Create an invitation link for your specific class. Creating an invitation link will allow you to automatically send invites to specific students or the entire class, associate responses with your specific class, manage responses and see charts related to responses, and Navigate to your course's dashboard in Givepulse.
Create and invitation link:
On the right navigation menu of the course dashboard, click on "Surveys" and select "Manage Surveys" from the drop down menu to see all the surveys you have access to
To find the Final Student Reflection, you'll need to do the following in the searchable filter fields:
Clear out “Owner” field
Type “final” into the "Title" Field
Locate the Survey Titled "Final Student Reflection on CBL Experience" and from the Action (drop down menu) select "Invite" (see below for visual)
When you create the invitation, select from either of these 2 options:
Manually Share - Copy and share the url created from this survey for people to take.
Invite Members from a Group - Every member of the group will be sent an email with the survey link.
3. Review Responses
Follow steps above for how to create an invitation link
Locate the Survey Titled "Final Student Reflection on CBL Experience" and from the Action (drop down menu) select "View"
From the list of Responders, use the Action drop down menu and select "View" to see their response
STEP 6: {Optional} Recognize a Student
You will also have the option to nominate any of the students for the CBL Community Engagement Award.
From the list of Responders, use the Action drop down menu to "Add reviewer"
In the following drop down menu, choose "Select Existing User from Network"
In the Select User field, you will be able to select your name.
Check your email for a notification to complete the review which is the nomination form.
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