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Administrator Documentation

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Set up Learning Outcomes

Before you can use Learning Outcomes to align outcomes and measure achievement, you must enable the tool, configure its terminology, and ensure the required organizational settings are in place.

Assign Learning Outcomes permissions

Before administrators and instructors can use Learning Outcomes, assign the appropriate Learning Outcomes permissions to each role. For information about the required permissions, refer to Learning Outcomes permissions.

Enable the Learning Outcomes tool

You can access the Outcomes Coverage gauge, view Outcome Sets, and import standards from the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) by enabling the Learning Outcomes tool in Organization Tools.

To enable the Learning Outcomes tool

Navigate to Admin Tools > Organization Tools.

On the Tool Availability page, scroll down to Learning Outcomes and toggle it ON.

The Learning Outcomes tool.

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Important: Do not disable the Competencies tool in your environment, even if you plan to only use the Learning Outcomes tool. The Competencies and Rubrics tools have dependencies in the current implementation. Disabling the Competencies tool prevents you from attaching rubrics to assignments and may cause other unexpected issues.

Customize the language term

To customize the language term used to describe learning outcomes, navigate to Admin Tools > Config Variable Browser and then set the d2l.Languages.Terminology.LearningOutcomes configuration variable to one of the available options: Standards, Competencies, Expectations, Objectives, or Outcomes. This configuration variable changes the terminology displayed throughout Brightspace to match your organization's preferred language.

Verify prerequisites for assessable activities

Before you can use learning outcomes in quizzes, assignments, and discussions, ensure that:

Learning outcomes are enabled in the course.
At least one learning outcome has been added to the course using the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) or created manually.
An achievement scale has been created in the organization and set as the default scale.

After completing these steps, Learning Outcomes is enabled and configured, and instructors can associate learning outcomes with supported assessable activities.

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