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Associate course content with learning outcomes

Use learning outcomes to associate course content with learning expectations and to add value to your learners' coursework.

Notes:

Learning Outcomes must be enabled and set up for your organization to see these options in Content.
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 Standards link in Content might be labeled Competencies, Expectations, Objectives, or Learning Outcomes.

Review and manage outcome coverage and alignments

The Edit Outcomes Coverage page provides a centralized workflow for reviewing and managing learning outcome alignments from course content. You can review learning outcome coverage across a course, explore outcome alignments by module, and view or bulk edit outcome alignments at the activity level, without leaving the page. This helps you identify covered and uncovered outcomes and keep outcome alignments accurate as your course evolves.

Navigating the Edit 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.

Edit Outcomes Coverage page showing outcome filters outcome set content mapping grid and coverage progress indicator

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. The grid displays 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 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 to quickly identify types of alignments in your course.

Icon	Description
	Overlays other icons to indicate outcome coverage.
	Overlays other icons to indicate outcome coverage on an assessment.
	Indicates the number of aligned activities.
	Indicates a direct alignment with an outcome.
	Indicates alignment to one or more rubrics.
	Indicates alignment to one or more questions.

Manage learning outcome alignment

Use the Edit Outcomes Coverage page to review, add, and remove learning outcomes from your course content.

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.

Video: Edit Course Standards Alignment

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Video: Locate Gaps in Course Standards Coverage

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