Setting up Outcomes

As general educational trends have moved toward more standardized and concrete methods of assessment in recent years, Canvas has incorporated the Outcomes feature to help you design assessment tools to keep up with the demands of teaching in the 21st century. The Outcomes feature of Canvas allows you to easily create, manage, and utilize assessment outcomes. Outcomes represent the skills, traits, or information you would like your students to come away with after your course. Standardized outcomes are becoming increasingly popular in North American schools and in institutions across the globe. Many discipline-specific associations have created national standards that are comparable to the types of outcomes you would utilize in a Canvas course.

Outcomes are an excellent means of mapping your curriculum by providing you with a documentation of your learning goals. Should you choose to use your outcomes to create rubrics for assessment, you will also have documentation...