QEP Requirements

The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a plan, required by our accreditation body SACSCOC (The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges), to improve some element of the institution. Our QEP goal is to improve student writing. We do this with common assignments, common rubrics, and the support of our Writing Center.

SACSCOC requires that, "Course content and rigor of dual enrollment courses are comparable to that of the same courses taught to the institution’s other students." Dual Enrollment courses should be following the QEP to maintain that standard. Click the link below to read more about the QEP.

As an FYI, the QEP is changing and the changes will be implemented on campus this semester (Fall 2023). Full implementation, including DE, will take place Fall 2024, so be prepared for so program changes, including changes to SLOs, required assignments, and rubric. We are not implementing with DE at this time as not all rubrics are finalized. That will take place Fall 2023.

QEP Website

Required Assignments

For ENC 1101 the following assignments are required:

Narrative
Annotated Bibliography
Argumentative Essay
Instructor's Choice Assignment
Final Portfolio

*Additionally, you should create an assignment of your choice that is appropriate to college-level English and exercises one of the Student Learning Outcomes.

Here are the Student Learning Outcomes:

SLO1: Rhetorical Knowledge : Writers will develop the ability to analyze contexts and audiences and then to act on that analysis in comprehending and creating texts.

SLO 2: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing: Writers will demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information, situations, and texts.

SLO 3: Process : Writers will use the composing process to demonstrate their knowledge of the recursive nature of writing as they conceptualize, develop, and finalize writing projects.

SLO 4: Knowledge of Conventions : Writers will understand, analyze, and practice the conventions common to academic writing which include the formal rules that define writing genres, and negotiate the conventions based on the audience, purpose, and theme of the essay.

Required Rubrics

The rubrics on this site should be used in Moodle for all major assignments.

Each major assignment should have a rubric attached to it in Moodle that is used to grade each student's submission. It should be clear why each student received every major assignment grade.

The rubric for your "instructor's choice" assignment should be placed in the assignment in Moodle.

LMS - Moodle

You will have a course shell set up in Moodle. Major assignments and grading should be in Moodle. Your syllabus should be available at the top of the course and the course should be visible to students on Day 1 of classes.

There is a course shell I will import into each course that contains the required assignments with rubrics already attached. You can then customize.

QEP Reporting

Data will be gathered directly from your rubrics in Moodle and from your assignments. Each major assignment will have a "passing" grade of 70% of the total. This is for internal assessment only and does not need to indicate that the student has actually failed the assignment. hat setting is already enabled in the assignment. If you change the point value of an assignment (default is 100 points), change the "grade to pass" accordingly to make it 70% of the available points. For example, if you change it to a 10 point assignment, change the "grade to pass" to 7 points. A report is generated by this setting .

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