Outcomes

In the following tabs, participants will learn more advanced options for assessing students on Canvas and tracking student mastery of skills and concepts. It is recommended that participants be familiar with assignment and quiz creation, as well as rubric creation, prior to completing these activities.

Learning Intentions

I can explain what an Outcome is and can create an Outcome in Canvas.
I can create a question bank and align it to an Outcome.
I can create a rubric using Outcomes.
I can explain how the Learning Mastery Gradebook can be used to improve instruction.

ISTE Standard: Leader

To meet this standard, educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning. Educators:

2.a. Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology by engaging with education stakeholders.
2.b. Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content, and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students.
2.c. Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning.

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Teachers who assess using Canvas Outcomes are Leaders because they advocate for and enable competency-based learning and data-based scaffolding of instruction. Additionally, teacher Leaders who assess with Canvas Outcomes provide opportunities for students to easily track their own progress toward content area mastery, thus engaging and empowering students to reflect on their learning process and outcomes.

Outcomes

Outcomes are a standardized measure used to track competency or mastery throughout the duration of a course. Outcomes can be aligned to assignments, quizzes, and discussions to track students' development of desired learning targets as they complete practice opportunities and assessments. Choosing course standards or objectives for learning targets can help facilitate standards-based grading.

Standards-based Grading Review

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Video: Creating Outcomes
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Your Turn!

1. Choose a unit from a class you teach.

2. Grab your curriculum map, standards, or "I Can" statements for that unit.

3. For each standard/"I Can" statement, create an Outcome.

Tip: If your Outcomes are derived from standards that are broken down into numerous smaller objectives, especially the kind only assessed once or twice in a unit, assessment can become tedious. If needed, "chunk" your standards or identify priority standards for assessment in Canvas.

Similarly, if your Outcomes are too broad, it becomes more challenging for students to identify areas for improvement. If this is the case, try unpacking your standards before creating Outcomes.

The Learning Mastery Gradebook helps teachers track student mastery of Outcomes in a color-coded format for easy reference. Use the video below to explore its features and what it has to offer above and beyond the traditional gradebook.

Video: Learning Mastery Gradebook
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Your Turn!

If you haven't already, turn on the Learning Mastery Gradebook in one of your courses. Get ready to assign some rubrics and track student mastery in the Learning Mastery Gradebook!

Aligning Rubrics to Outcomes

You can align any Outcome in your course to a rubric. Rubrics are used to help students understand expectations for an assignment and how their submissions will be graded. Outcomes can be aligned with a rubric for additional assessment and measurable performance.

Video: Making an Outcomes-aligned Rubric
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Tip: You can create an Outcomes-aligned rubric before creating any assignments. To do so:

1. Select "Outcomes" from the sidebar navigation.

2. Select the "more" icon and then "Manage Rubrics."

3. Select "+ Add Rubric."

You can align course-level outcomes to an assessment question in New Quizzes. Aligning an outcome allows you to measure student assessment performance using rating scales and mastery levels.

You can also align outcomes to an assessment Links to an external site..

Notes:

If you cannot see outcomes in New Quizzes, they have not been configured for your course. Contact your Canvas administrator for assistance.
Outcomes scores from New Quizzes can only be viewed in the Outcomes Analysis report in New Quizzes. Outcomes scores cannot be viewed in the Learning Mastery Gradebook.
It may take up to 48 hours before newly-created outcomes can be aligned to New Quizzes assessments.

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