Overview: What are Outcomes?

Canvas Learning Outcomes tool enables the administration and faculty to track students’ progress as measured by pedagogical goals or desired outcomes. Student assessments showing their knowledge or demonstrating a specific skill resulting from a learning activity can be aligned to learning outcomes using our rubrics (which can be used for grading simultaneously). Assessing or grading student work automatically collects and compiles data on student progress. 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.

When would I use Outcomes?

• Use Outcomes at the course level to focus your students' attention on the most important skills and activities in your course
• Use Outcomes to use align Quizzes and Assignments to different kinds of mastery
• Use Outcomes to run reports at the account-level about student artifacts of learning mastery