• Ability to rate and track student performance on a proficiency scale with a variety of calculation methods.
• Empowers faculty to make informed adjustments to teaching methods, review sessions, tutoring opportunities, content selection, and lesson plans.
• Gives student visibility of learning standard alignment in each course and faculty the tools to communicate outcome performance on student assessments.
• Supports the choice to implement outcomes at the course level or program level. Simultaneous use of course-level and program-level outcomes is also supported. 
• Program-level use provides administration with term data across every course in one spreadsheet.
• Creates assessment artifact data that can contribute to accreditation documentation. 

• Account-level location is managed by the UIW Instructional Technology team.
• This program option offers a results report of raw data on every outcome/assessment/student for all courses taught in a term.
• Account-level outcomes are required for administration seeking the results report. 
• This method provides evidence of student performance without asking each instructor to submit an individual report.

• Course-level location is managed by each individual instructor. 
• This option does not offer a consolidated report across courses like the program-level method.
• Instructors can export their Learning Mastery Gradebook for a course report.
• Course-level outcomes cannot be changed to account-level outcomes later.

• Individual use of outcomes is good for tracking unique course goals not connected with program standards.

• Document program decisions for using Canvas Outcomes features and assessment expectations.
• Contact your department leadership or designated contact for clarity.
• Inform technical support of assessment processes when asking for assistance with a feature.
• Ensure your use of Canvas Outcomes aligns with course syllabi and grading policies. 
• Schools may designate an Assessment Specialist to support faculty setting up their course rubrics and assessments.
• The Assessment Specialist role has administrative access to all courses in the assigned Canvas account but is restricted from viewing student or grade information unless enrolled in the course by the Instructor of Record.
• As schools consist of multiple departments sharing Canvas account space, folder structures and clear naming conventions are required. 
• Do not use outcomes labeled for other departments or practice with UIW or program outcomes. 
• Testing negatively impacts data reporting, but sandbox practice examples are available in sandbox courses and safe to use for learning.
• Sandbox practice outcomes will not match program outcomes - we are unable to duplicate the experience you have in your academic courses.
• Schools are advised to share one proficiency rating scale, which is set to default by Instructional Technology.
• To not impact student traditional grades, outcomes must be added to rubrics with the scoring option disabled.
• Complete/Incomplete grading is recommended scored at mastery or no evidence - programs are advised to coordinate these types of decisions.

To get started, faculty must find program-level outcomes for course alignment. If appropriate for your needs, this is also when you create course-level outcomes. Once outcomes are connected to the course, you add outcomes as criteria on an enhanced rubric. If you have disabled enhanced rubrics in your course settings, adding outcomes on standard rubrics is slightly different.

Note: UIW Canvas courses have the Improved Outcomes Management appearance, however instructors using course outcomes are allowed to set per-outcome criterion ratings and calculation methods. This unique configuration ensures programs sharing account space have some flexibility to customize for different degree needs. Schools are encouraged to use the same criterion rating scale but can adjust calculation methods. These settings cause some features in Canvas guides to look different than your course.

Common Issues with Rubrics:

• If not using outcomes to give grades, ensure you deselect "Use this criterion for scoring" when you add outcomes to a rubric. 
• If you forget to deselect scoring box, your rubric total points will be inaccurate. To correct mistakes, remove the incorrect outcome and re-add it with the box deselected.
• Do not use the rubric Duplicate feature unless scoring with outcomes. A known issues causes Duplicate to always include scoring. Canvas has been notified of this issue.

Next, you add rubrics to Assignments, Graded Discussions, and/or Classic Quizzes to use the Speedgrader features, Learning Mastery Gradebook, and reporting options. If you're using New Quizzes, that's covered in step three since New Quizzes work differently.

Outcome performance on rubrics is scored manually by the instructor in Speedgrader: 

• Most faculty will use enhanced rubrics to grade submissions.
• If you have disabled enhanced rubrics in your course settings, then standard rubric grading is a little different.

New Quizzes calculate outcome performance automatically, they do not use rubrics and there is no action taken by the instructor in Speedgrader. Instructors can align outcomes to an entire quiz, to select individual quiz questions, or both within the Build area of New Quizzes. Consult your program for guidance on assessment expectations before choosing a method.

Aligning Outcomes to an Entire Quiz: Aligning outcomes to an entire quiz rates student performance based on the overall quiz grade, so performance on every question contributes. Scoring is automatic after students submit their responses. For example, students take a 5-question quiz worth 100 points that's aligned to outcomes using a 0-5 proficiency scale with 4 as satisfactory. 6 levels with 4 out of 5 mastery is an 80% pass rate with intervals of 20:

Aligning Outcomes to Individual Questions: Aligning outcomes to individual questions rates student performance on whether they answer the question correct. They either receive the highest rating for being correct or the lowest rating for being incorrect. Students are not rated on the outcome based on their overall quiz score. Scoring is automatic after students submit their responses. 

Canvas Outcomes and Rubrics are not designed to be changed on the fly or retroactively. Once used to assess a student, they can't be edited or deleted. Rubrics behavior is like using questions banks, where you must create a copy to make changes after they have been used.

Accurate setup in your course and consensus on how ratings are earned are crucial for creating quality reporting data.

Outcomes features may process slowly. Be patient and refresh your browser to see updates. Expect to refresh your browsing window and/or leave the gradebook for a few minutes to see updated data. Allow additional time for the Learning Mastery Gradebook to update if your course uses multiple outcomes or has higher enrollment. New Quizzes take the most time to process.

Most faculty must resize the Speedgrader view when rating with rubrics to see all options and locate the submit button. The submit button saves your rating scale entries for each student. If you do not slide the view to the left, you will not see all the options.

Maintain your operating system updates, clear web browsing history regularly, and restart your computer periodically for better performance. Further, have at least two browsers you are comfortable switching between and check each browser is compatible with Canvas.

1. Use Microsoft Stream/Clipchamp to make a screen recording.
2. Share the video file with the OneDrive App in Canvas.

• The Grades link is visible to students on the course navigation menu unless disabled by the instructor. 
• Students see their instructor's outcomes feedback through the Grades option on the Canvas course menu, but they must select the tab options to move from Assignments to Learning Mastery.
• Faculty are encouraged to give their students a brief tour of these features at the beginning of the term.

• The Outcomes link is hidden from students unless enabled by the instructor.
• Before making Outcomes visible to students on your course menu, ensure your outcomes match the information listed in your syllabus for consistency.
• Enabling the Outcomes link shows students a detailed list of outcomes, rating scales, and methods. Students do not have editing capability.
• Including this link is beneficial in helping students understand how outcomes work in Canvas, which can be a confusing transition for those who are new to competency-based assessment.

• View as Student allows the instructor to explore their course as the Test Student.
• It's recommended for practicing submitting work, taking quizzes, and practicing grading in Speedgrader.
• Note, taking New Quizzes as the Test Student will not generate outcomes data in your Learning Mastery Gradebook in the same way grading with rubrics does.

• View a student's Grades page allows the instructor to view grades as a student does.
• It's recommended any time an instructor talks to one student and avoids having to interpret the gradebook view.
• This is the most secure option for teacher conferencing and tutoring sessions as it hides other student grade information.