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☛ What is AEFIS? --------------------------- AEFIS is the web-based solution for continuous improvement, assessment, and accreditation knowledge management for higher education. ☛ Here is how AEFIS will serve your institution: --------------------------------------------------------------------- ☑ Higher Education Evolution Connect assessment to teaching and learning on your campus ☑ Academic Quality. Assured Close the loop with transparency and efficiency ☑ Teaching and Learning. Improved Create a comprehensive road map for continuous improvement and accreditation success ☑ Your Process. Simplified Integrate your academic systems and data with our cloud based solution ☛ Single Source for Empowering Continuous Improvement ☛ Accountability for Assessment ------------------------------------------------ AEFIS commands the necessary accountability for assessment, on the parts of administrators, faculty, students, and alumni and industry, by giving users the complete set of tools in a single software solution to ensure that both direct and indirect assessment findings are mechanisms for continuously improving educational experiences. ☛ Integrates With Existing LMS & SMS ---------------------------------------------------------- Integration with your existing campus systems such as Learning Management Systems or Student Management Systems also ensures that your current information resources will generate further value in natively supporting the only software you will need for continuous improvement organization wide. ☛ Simple & Flexible Customization ---------------------------------------------------- AEFIS as a platform embraces and supports this change to a culture of assessment—by shifting focus from what instructors are teaching to what students are learning. Highly customizable features manageable by the end-users allow AEFIS to easily adapt to organizational deployments that are evolutionary, as opposed to revolutionary

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Page 1: What is AEFIS's ☛ Higher Education ☛ Assessment ☛ Continuous Improvement ☛ Accreditation ☛ Web Based ☛ Knowledge Management System

Continuously Improving Higher Education

www.AEFIS.com 234 Market Street, 2nd Floor West

Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone 877.674.3122

Fax 215.873.0801

2/25/14

CONFIDENTIAL

Copyright © 2014. Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback and Intervention System—AEFIS is a trademark ofAEFIS, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

What is AEFIS? With rising costs of higher education, institutions are feeling pressure from accrediting and government agencies to document student performance and deliver the return on investment for educational practices. AEFIS is the web-based solution for continuous improvement, assessment, and accreditation knowledge management for higher education. Here is how AEFIS will serve your institution:

! Higher Ed. Evolved. — Connect assessment to teaching and learning on your campus. ! Academic Quality. Assured. — Close the loop with transparency and efficiency. ! Teaching and Learning. Improved. — Create a comprehensive road map for continuous improvement and

accreditation success. ! Your Process. Simplified. — Integrate your academic systems and data with our cloud - based solution.

“Single Source for Empowering Continuous Improvement” AEFIS commands the necessary accountability for assessment, on the parts of administrators, faculty, students, and alumni and industry, by giving users the complete set of tools in a single software solution to ensure that both direct and indirect assessment findings are mechanisms for continuously improving educational experiences. Integration with your existing campus systems such as Learning Management Systems or Student Management Systems also ensures that your current information resources will generate further value in natively supporting the only software you will need for continuous improvement organization wide. “Many Sizes, Fits All” AEFIS as a platform embraces and supports this change to a culture of assessment—by shifting focus from what instructors are teaching to what students are learning. Highly customizable features manageable by the end-users allow AEFIS to easily adapt to organizational deployments that are evolutionary, as opposed to revolutionary. This results in providing a customized best practices framework for assessment organization wide, while allowing critical variability to accommodate different levels and flavors of assessment activities to easily exist between different programs, departments or colleges. “Full Set of Tools — All included!” All of the features listed below are standard components of AEFIS implementations; there’s no picking and choosing necessary to get started. You choose who has access to tools with no limits on the number of administrative users. And our team is ready to help you implement the tools most effectively.

AEFIS Main Tools and Features ! AEFIS Core System

" Unified web-based portal for all assessment activity " User specific dashboards for Administrators, Faculty, Students, and Alumni & Industry " Easy Integration with academic systems through automated data import

! Course Syllabi Management " Develop and manage course syllabi and view history " Link Course Student Learning Outcomes or Objectives to Program Learning Outcomes " View and attach Notes and Recommendations

! Course Evaluations and Survey Management " Create and manage custom surveys for internal and external users " Student and Faculty Course Evaluation Surveys " Comprehensive reporting that can be documented in MS Excel and Adobe PDF

! Assessment Measures Management " Implement Direct and Embedded Assessment Measures " Manage assessment activities across institutional levels " Document and track Intervention Plans to ensure continuous improvement

! Program Design and Alignment Tool " Create and manage academic program curricula " Map Outcomes and Performance Criteria to program and course levels " Efficient inheritance across institutional levels

! Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Management " Manage Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

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Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback and Intervention System – AEFIS “What is AEFIS?”

2/25/14

CONFIDENTIAL

Copyright © 20134 Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback and Intervention System—AEFIS is a trademark of AEFIS, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

" Manage Performance Criteria and develop rubrics " Manage Outcomes across institutional levels

! Instructional Decision Support System (IDSSTM) " Incoming Student/Course Profiles (ISCP) " Course Rationale and History Profiles (CRHP) show how courses fit into the curriculum " Evaluation Results Notes and Recommendations (ERNR)

! Accreditation Document & Meeting Minutes Management " Context based document repository for assessment and accreditation documentation " Search functionalities to manage and reference Meeting Minutes and documents " Secure data management