Mission et raison d’être
This community brings college teachers together around the Labo Codex application. The application is used to plan and align courses, evaluate student work, track individual progress and the structure of learning outcomes, and adjust teaching interventions based on these observations throughout the session.
The community provides a space to share observations, experiment with practices, collaboratively develop open-source resources (Creative Commons), and help evolve the application itself (which is still under development) through user feedback and contributions.
The application is free, open-source and independent. It runs entirely offline on the teacher’s computer—no account creation, no data leaving the workstation, no built-in artificial intelligence, and no competency in computer skills required.
Who is it for?
This community of practice is for those who wish to reflect on and improve their practice based on empirical data collected in the classroom, including:
Teachers who want to experiment with new practices of observation, intervention or grading (standards-, specification-, or objectives-based) while retaining the option to continue using traditional summative grading.
Pedagogical counsellors who support these initiatives in their institutions, as well as program teams and academic deans interested in approaches based on classroom data.
Objectives
Support the implementation of Labo Codex.
Foster exchanges among practitioners engaged in aligned planning, criteria-based evaluation, and structured feedback.
Provide tools for experimenting with alternative grading practices without requiring a break from current practices.
Co-create and share transferable resources under a Creative Commons license, such as rubrics, performance criteria, feedback templates, and intervention scenarios.
Help Labo Codex evolve by identifying its blind spots and testing its concepts in various disciplinary contexts.
