A Knowledge Base article explaining what the Outcomes Tool does
What are Outcomes?
Outcomes is a tool that allows administration and staff to track learner mastery in a course. Users can import Account, State, and Common Core Standards into an account and course. Outcomes enables the administration and teaching staff to track students’ progress as measured by pedagogical goals or desired outcomes.
Assessments created to test student knowledge or to require students to demonstrate a specific skill resulting from a learning activity can be aligned to learning outcomes using rubrics (which can be used for grading simultaneously).
Grading student work automatically collects and compiles data on student progress for the Outcomes. The data is available for reporting to support teaching improvement, identify at-risk students, and support the accreditation process. This unified, streamlined approach dramatically reduces the amount of work required to implement Learning Outcomes through the intelligent reuse of assessment workflows in the grading process.
Check out the Video below for a demonstration of an overview of Outcomes.
Video overviews reflect current feature functionality in Canvas; they are updated based on workflow changes, not on minor or non-functional interface enhancements. Depending on your institution’s Canvas theme, the Canvas interface may display differently than shown in this video, but the functionality is the same.