ASSESSMENT SOLUTIONS
iSocrates Software Development
Educators often feel like drowning in assessment paperwork. When my husband and I found ourselves in that exact situation at the beginning of our academic careers—spending countless hours crafting individual rubrics and struggling with inconsistent evaluation processes—we saw an opportunity to transform this pain point into an elegant digital solution. iSocrates Assessment and Feedback Systems was born!
iSOCRATES EXPLAINED
iSocrates emerged from this vision: a streamlined educational software program we developed in Xojo that revolutionizes how instructors approach student evaluation. Rather than starting from scratch with each assessment, educators can now create comprehensive digital rubrics in minutes, not hours. Our software addresses the core challenges we identified in the assessment workflow:
Smart Efficiency Features:
- Customizable criteria pull-down menus populated with instructors' most frequently used feedback comments, eliminating repetitive typing
- Dual-perspective evaluation system that captures both qualitative insights and quantitative data points
- Automated scoring algorithms that compute weighted performance scores based on instructor-defined priorities
Practical Output Solutions:
- Professional printable rubrics ready to return to students with detailed, consistent feedback
- Flexible formatting that adapts to virtually any assignment type or subject area
By combining our deep understanding of educational assessment needs with practical programming solutions, we created a tool that doesn't just digitize the rubric process—it fundamentally streamlines and enhances it.
INNOVATIVE ASSESSMENT SOLUTION
As an educator and trainer I understand the need for innovative assessment and feedback to monitor learner progress and track learning outcomes to meet accreditation requirements and long-term assessment plans. For many years I have spear-headed our department’s assessment efforts identifying innovative solutions that provide ongoing positive adjustments to our program. That's why I developed an assessment software program called iSocrates, which allows users to quickly and easily create digital evaluation rubrics for virtually any assignment – including presentations, group projects, written assignments, and media projects.
THE IDEA BEHIND iSOCRATES
MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK. PEDAGOGICALLY SOUND.Recognizing that educators were trapped in a feedback paradox—needing to provide detailed, meaningful assessments while facing ever-increasing time constraints—my husband and I engineered iSocrates as our solution to this widespread challenge.
We identified the core inefficiency: instructors were recreating assessment wheels for every assignment, typing the same feedback comments repeatedly, and struggling to maintain consistency across evaluations. Our response was to develop intelligent software that transforms this cumbersome process into a streamlined digital workflow.
iSocrates empowers instructors and trainers to deliver substantially higher-quality feedback in dramatically less time through our innovative approach to electronic rubric creation. The software allows users to build fully customized grading frameworks tailored to their specific assignment criteria, then leverage these templates to generate consistent, comprehensive evaluations efficiently.
