Align learning outcomes to rubric criteria

You can align learning outcomes to rubric criteria, enabling you to demonstrate how assessment criteria maps to a learner's demonstration of learning outcomes in an activity (discussion topic or assignment). For learners, this makes it easier to understand their progress against a learning outcome and locate areas for improvement.

When creating or editing a rubric, you add learning outcomes to the rubric criteria.

After attaching the completed rubric to an activity, the learning outcomes are visible from the activity description page.

Note the following:

  • Aligning outcomes to rubric criteria is only available in the new Rubric creation experience.
  • To use learning outcomes, your administrator must define a scale for your organization that measures achievement in a course. For example, achievement levels might include the following: Does Not Meet Expectations, Meets Expectations, and Exceeds Expectations. In addition, you must import learning outcomes into a course using Lessons.
  • Learning outcomes aligned to an activity via a rubric cannot be removed from the activity, unless they are removed from the rubric.
  • Learning outcomes that are indirectly aligned via a rubric can be directly assessed, like any other outcome
  • Removing a rubric containing learning outcomes does not affect any previously assessed learning outcomes. For example, if you assess a learner in a learning outcome and then remove the rubric, the assessment is hidden; it is not deleted. Re-adding the rubric makes the outcome assessment visible again.
  • You can attach a rubric with learning outcomes aligned to learning objectives or competencies; however, the two systems do not have any interaction.
  • You can use learning outcomes in discussion topics. For more information, see Align learning outcomes to discussion topics.

To align learning outcomes to rubric criteria

  1. From the navbar, click Rubrics.
  2. Create or edit a rubric.
  3. For each rubric criterion, click Browse Outcomes.
  4. Select learning outcomes to align to the rubric criteria, and click Add.
    The learning outcomes display below the rubric criteria. Hovering over a learning outcome displays a description. To add or remove learning outcomes, click the Add and remove learning outcomes icon Add/Remove Learning Outcomes icon.
  5. Click Close.