Compass: Mentor
Introduction
This involves providing timely feedback on the students’ self assessment in each phase. This is to create a collaborative environment where both Mentor and Student can work together.
The compass activity will also send notifications to mentors, when one of their allocated students has completed their next phase submission.
Mentoring students with the compass activity
When using Compass to mentor students’ self-assessment, please note the following:
- You will only view students with whom you are pre-grouped.
- Each phase will be enabled only during the exact timing allocated.
- Each phase will be available first to students to submit, then once they have completed, then the mentor submission form will be available.
- If the phase is for mentors only, this will not apply of course!
- The feedback chat section becomes available once a student has submitted their first phase submission.
To mentor students with the compass activity:
- Ensure you are in a group with the students.
- You will receive a notification whenever a student submits a competency phase.
- Go to a course.
- Go to a Compass activity.
- Ensure that the phase you are concerned about is currently active for submissions.
- Click the Show competencies link.
- Select the relevant values for each competency and click on Submit.
- Provide feedback to the student, if needed, in the text area.
- Click the Send button.
Please note this is repeated for each phase and the student can also provide feedback to their mentor, as soon as the feedback has been initiated by the mentor. The first phase must have concluded for the feedback to become visible to the student.
Viewing the Compass reports
Please refer to the “Viewing the Compass reports” section in the “Teacher” section for more information on viewing Compass reports for students.