Self-study & planning software

Curriculum Strategy focuses on the process of managing curricular changes and publishing your course catalog. Student Learning & Licensure focuses on measuring student learning and tracking readiness. Planning & Self-Study focuses on managing and driving engagement in the continuous improvement processes that document and showcase institutional effectiveness, from annual assessment cycles to accreditation self-studies and program reviews.

Planning & Self-Study is used by institutional effectiveness offices, academic leaders, accreditation teams, program chairs, and faculty committees responsible for institutional planning, course and program assessment, accreditation preparation, and curricular innovation.

Planning & Self-Study is fundamentally designed to be your campus hub for year-round institutional effectiveness. Instead of treating assessment as a frantic, periodic event, the software allows academic and non-academic units to track learning and success outcomes, manage program review reporting and feedback workflows, and measure progress against your strategic goals and objectives continuously. By housing all data in a single ecosystem, leadership has real-time visibility into what is working and where resources should be allocated every single semester.

Our software makes it easy to get a full picture of outcome alignment with intelligent curriculum mapping. With Planning & Self-Study, you can plan for assessments, align your measures, and incorporate learning outcomes assessment results as they occur. Over time, you can improve the design of your curriculum based on evidence of student learning, and easily identify gaps where outcomes can be layered in.

A major roadblock in higher education is documenting what happens after assessment data is collected. Planning & Self-Study solves this by allowing users to build onto their program reviews year after year within a unified framework. The system creates a clear, chronological narrative: student learning outcomes - measures - actions taken - curricular or operational changes - adapted outcomes. This dynamic history provides tangible evidence of data-driven decision-making and continuous quality improvement in action.

Yes. Planning & Self-Study features native integrations with major LMS platforms like Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard. Instead of forcing faculty to manually export spreadsheets or double-enter data, the software pulls student performance data directly from account-level rubrics, quizzes, and signature assignments. This automation ensures that everyday classroom learning feeds directly into your macro-level assessment plans without adding to faculty administrative burdens.

Absolutely. True institutional effectiveness requires campus-wide alignment. Planning & Self-Study unifies both academic programs and non-academic/operational units (such as student affairs, admissions, and facilities) within the same platform. It allows non-academic departments to operationalize Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) standards, align their departmental goals with the institution’s overarching strategic plan, and track performance metrics unique to their operations.

Instead of static, siloed documents, Planning & Self Study acts as a centralized data repository. Because assessment data can be compared across reporting periods, administrators and program coordinators can generate a longitudinal view in just a couple of clicks to easily identify long-term trends. You can visualize how outcomes perform over time, filter LMS results by specific attributes like major, gender, race, and Pell eligibility, and leverage those insights to map out concrete action items, such as curricular revisions, to drive continuous institutional improvement.

Yes. By pairing Planning & Self-Study with Course Evaluations & Surveys, you can combine direct measures of student learning (like grades and rubric scores) with indirect measures (like student feedback, focus groups, and end-of-course surveys). This dual-lens approach provides a holistic, multi-dimensional view of program quality, allowing faculty to make highly informed adjustments to their pedagogy.

Ensuring educational parity is essential for modern institutional growth. Planning & Self-Study allows you to aggregate and disaggregate learning outcomes data by course modality. With a few clicks, you can compare the success rates of online sections against on-campus sections to verify equity of instruction, uncover potential achievement gaps, and implement targeted instructional design updates where they are needed most.