An Invitation to an F2F Workshop on the iOBE Software

SEEING BEYOND THE STANDARD OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT

An iOBE Workshop @ USM, Penang | National Training Week 2025

📅 Friday, 20 June 2025

🕗 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

📍 Auditorium 3, Kompleks Eureka, USM

👋 A Warm Invitation to Educators and Program Coordinators

If you're an educator or program coordinator who’s looking for a better way to understand and improve your student assessment results, I’d like to personally invite you to join a focused, face-to-face workshop at USM Penang.

This session is part of National Training Week (NTW) 2025, and it’s designed to help you rethink how you interpret student outcomes—with the help of a powerful yet easy-to-use software tool called The Integrated OBE (iOBE) Software.

❓ Why This Workshop Matters

Let’s be honest — many of us track student results using averages, total marks, or spreadsheet tables. But often, the outcomes data we collect just sits there — unanalyzed, uncommunicated, and underutilized.

What if we could do more with that data? Imagine turning it into simple, visual graphs that you could share with your students—showing how they performed in a midterm test, a final exam, a project, or even the course overall. These visuals can help students see not just their individual scores, but also where they stand in relation to the rest of the class.

When performance is made visible and meaningful, students often feel more motivated to improve, and educators gain clearer insights into how to adapt their teaching strategies.

This workshop is designed to help you realize that potential — by showing you how to identify patterns, communicate outcomes, and make informed improvements using easy-to-read graphs generated with the iOBE software.

💡 What iOBE Brings to the Table

The iOBE software is a smart, lightweight, and versatile tool designed specifically for educators to compute, analyze, and visualize student learning outcomes at both the course and program levels.

At the course level, you can:

• Assess outcomes from tests, assignments, projects, exams, and the overall course
• Generate compact graphs and statistical summaries for quick decision-making
• Communicate results directly to students using visual tools like box plots and population graphs

At the program level, iOBE scales up to:

• Aggregate results from multiple courses
• Support structured CQI and accreditation reportin
• Provide visual clarity when presenting outcomes across course groups

Whether you’re working solo on your course or contributing to program-level reviews, iOBE gives you the insights you need—fast.

🧠 What You'll Experience in the 2-Hour Session

This isn't a theory-only session. It’s designed to be interactive and immediately useful, broken into three engaging parts:

1. Conceptual Session: We’ll start by revisiting the fundamentals of outcome-based assessment, and explore how computed outcomes (rather than raw marks alone) offer deeper insights into student learning and course performance.
2. Software Demonstration: A guided walk-through of how the iOBE software works, using real or sample datasets. You’ll see how outcomes are mapped, processed, and visualized.
3. Practical Hands-On Session: You’ll try it out yourself—entering sample data, generating graphs, and discussing how the outputs can inform your teaching and CQI strategies.

🎯 Who Should Join?

This session is designed for:

• Lecturers, educators, and program coordinators at tertiary institutions
• Anyone involved in course assessment, CQI documentation, or accreditation processes
• Educators who want to present assessment results more clearly to students in their classes
• Those new to OBE tools — you don’t need technical expertise to benefit

If you’re curious about improving how you see, interpret, and act on student outcomes, this session is for you.

📝 How to Register

This workshop is part of National Training Week (NTW) 2025, and registration is open now through the official portal:

🔗 https://www.nationaltrainingweek.gov.my

📌 Once you’re on the site:

• Click on “Individual Login” (or create an account if you're new)
• Go to the Courses section
• Search for “Universiti Sains Malaysia”
• Find the session titled “Seeing Beyond the Standard Outcomes Assessment”

Click ENROL NOW to secure your spot!