Use learning outcomes to align course content with your course objectives and review how outcomes are covered across your course. You can align outcomes to modules and activities to support curriculum mapping and identify gaps in coverage. To evaluate learner achievement, align outcomes to assessment activities such as assignments, discussions, quizzes, or rubrics.
Before you begin
- Learning Outcomes must be enabled for your organization.
- A default achievement scale must be configured.
- At least one Outcome Set must be imported into your course.
- The New Content Experience is enabled.
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Note: The name of the Learning Outcomes tool and some menu items and links therein depend on the language term defined by your organization. Based on that setting, the Outcomes link in Content might be labeled Competencies, Expectations, Objectives, or Standards. |
Review and manage outcome coverage and alignments
Use Outcomes Coverage to review and manage learning outcome alignments in one place. Review outcome coverage across your course, explore alignments by module, and view or bulk edit activity alignments without leaving the page. Use Outcomes Coverage to identify outcomes that do not have aligned course content.
Navigating the Outcomes Coverage page
To access the Edit Outcomes Coverage page, navigate to Content > Outcomes. If you have the full-screen table of contents enabled, navigate to Content, click More and select Outcomes.
- Filter: Use the filter to select which outcomes you want to display from the selected Outcome Set. Choose from:
- All outcomes to display all outcomes.
- No content aligned to display only outcomes without content aligned.
- No assessments aligned to display outcomes with no aligned assessments.
- Manage Outcomes: Click Manage Outcomes to navigate to Course Admin > Learning Outcomes, where you can import and manage your course outcomes.
- Outcome Set: Select an Outcome Set from the list to review outcome coverage and alignments. Only outcomes imported to your course are available in the list. The selected outcome and sub-outcomes appear in the first column.
- Content: Course content appears in this row, organized by unit. When alignments are present, the grid displays alignments to modules with a check mark and the number of aligned activities for each outcome and content unit. For example, if 3 activities in a unit are aligned to an outcome, the corresponding cell displays 3. You can hover over the number to see a list of the aligned activities.
The Total Units column displays how many alignments exist across all units for each sub-outcome.
Click a unit title to view the activities in that unit. The alignment matrix displays which activities are aligned to each outcome and allows you to review and manage alignments.
- Outcomes Coverage Summary: Displays the number of outcomes aligned to at least one activity or module in the course and provides a visual overview of outcome coverage.
Outcomes Coverage grid key
The Outcomes Coverage grid displays different icons to help you quickly identify types of alignments in your course.
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Overlays other icons to indicate outcome coverage. |
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Overlays other icons to indicate outcome coverage on an assessment. |
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Indicates the number of aligned activities. |
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Indicates a direct alignment with an outcome. |
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Indicates alignment to one or more rubrics. |
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Indicates alignment to one or more questions. |
Manage learning outcome alignment
Watch this video to learn how to associate course content with learning outcomes and identify gaps in Learning Outcomes. Review the written steps below.
Use the Edit Outcomes Coverage page to review, add, and remove learning outcomes from your course content.
To manage learning outcome alignment for a module
- Navigate to Content on the course navbar and click Outcomes.
- From the Filter drop-down list, select All outcomes.
- Locate the module and the outcome you want to change, then click the corresponding grid cell to align the outcome to the module.
A check mark appears in the grid when it is aligned. If there are alignments within the module, the check mark appears beside the number of alignments. To remove the alignment, click the grid cell.
- To align another module, repeat step 3 as needed.
- Click Save and Close.
To manage learning outcome alignment
- Navigate to Content on the course navbar and click Outcomes.
- From the Filter drop-down list, select All outcomes.
- Click a unit in Content to view the available activity and outcome alignments.
- Locate the activity and the outcome you want to change, then click the corresponding grid cell to align the outcome to the activity.
A check mark appears in the grid when it is aligned. To remove the alignment, click the grid cell.
- To make changes to another unit, click Content in the table header, then select a different unit.
- Click Save and Close.
Identify gaps in Learning Outcomes
To identify gaps in Learning Outcomes
- Navigate to Content on the course navbar and do one of the following:
- Click Outcomes.
- Navigate to an activity, then from the Actions menu, select Align Outcomes.
- From the Filter drop-down list, select No content aligned.
- Click a unit in Content to view the available activity and outcome alignments.
- Locate the activity and the outcome, then click the corresponding grid cell to align the outcome to the activity. The outcome disappears from the list because it now has content aligned to it.
- Click Save and Close.
Add learning outcomes to new content topics
Add learning outcomes while creating new content topic types including:
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Pages
- Uploaded files (such as PDF documents)
- Weblinks
- LTI
- LOR and SCORM Packages
- Media (audio and video) files
To add Learning Outcomes to new content topics
- From Content, click Create New and choose a content topic type that supports learning outcomes alignment.
- On the New [content type] page, enter the details in the relevant fields, then click Outcomes.
- Select the check boxes for the outcomes that align to your content topic.
- Click Save.
For more information on aligning outcomes with assessable activities, refer to: Align learning outcomes to course content and activities.
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