Using Outcomes for Tracking Student Mastery
Why Use Outcomes?
Outcomes in Canvas course work in conjunction with rubrics and assignments to track student outcomes. The outcomes tool in Canvas allows instructors to add the course outcomes to the course. The outcomes can then be attached to rubrics that are attached to assignments. The outcomes will also display in the Mastery Learning Gradebook which allows instructors and students to track student mastery over content. The Mastery Learning Gradebook and Student Mastery Gradebook are course level feature options that must be enabled in a course. See course settings tutorial for details on how to enable feature options. View the video tutorial and Canvas Guides below for more information.
Video Tutorial
View the video.
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Important Notes
Outcomes can be imported into a rubric. When an outcome is imported into a rubric, the default option is to include the outcome rating as graded criteria option. If you don't want the outcome to be included as graded criteria, be sure to uncheck this option.
In the current quiz tool, a rubric with an outcome can be aligned with the quiz.
With quizzes in the new quiz tool, you cannot add rubrics to the quiz. You can align an outcome with a quiz or question.
Canvas Guides
Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site.. Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Lake Land College instance of Canvas. If you have a question about a feature mentioned in these guides, please review Getting Help page for details on who to contact at Lake Land College.
- 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 import outcomes for a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit or delete an outcome in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit or delete an 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 find Learning Standards to add to a course-level outcome? 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.