Outcomes
Outcomes allow the administration and faculty to track mastery in a course. You can create nested outcomes by dragging and dropping outcomes to create structure. This can be done at the account, sub-account or course-level. Remember the hierarchical structure of top-level accounts, sub-accounts, and courses.
Outcomes enables the administration and faculty to track students’ progress as measured by pedagogical goals or desired outcomes. Assessments created to test student knowledge or to require students to demonstrate a specific skill resulting from a learning activity can be aligned to learning outcomes using rubrics Links to an external site. (which can be used for grading simultaneously).
Grading student work automatically collects and compiles data on student progress for the Outcomes. The data is available for reporting to support teaching improvement, identify at-risk students, and support the accreditation process. This unified, streamlined approach dramatically reduces the amount of work required to implement Learning Outcomes through the intelligent reuse of assessment workflows in the grading process.
Use Outcomes to:
- Focus students' attention on the most important skills and activities in your course (find Links to an external site. existing outcomes or create Links to an external site. new ones)
- Align Quizzes Links to an external site. and Assignments to different kinds of mastery
- Run reports Links to an external site. at the account-level about student artifacts of learning mastery
- Assess student progress through calculation methods Links to an external site.
- Track student progress on a learning outcome or overall in the Learning Mastery Gradebook Links to an external site.
Video
Watch this video to learn more about Outcomes in Canvas:
Or take a look at these guides:
- What calculation methods are available for outcomes? Links to an external site.
- How do I create an outcome for a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I create outcome groups for a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit or delete an outcome or outcome group in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I create custom course outcome names for students? Links to an external site.
- How do I move outcomes and outcome groups in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I find an existing outcome to add to a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I align an outcome with a question bank? Links to an external site.
- How do I view all aligned items and artifacts within an outcome? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view outcomes or student results individually in the Learning Mastery Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I view the outcomes results report for an individual student in a course? Links to an external site.