Using Outcomes In Your Moodle Course

As an instructor at LBCC, you have been told that "at the end of each term, you will be asked to report how many students met each outcome for your course…"

If you are looking for a way to effectively and efficiently assess and report learning outcomes in your teaching, you are in luck, because Moodle Outcomes is one of the "if you only use Moodle for this one thing, it's WORTH IT" features.

How do you get started using the Outcomes functionality in Moodle?

Step #1- Install Your Outcome Set in Our Moodle System: Share a Google Doc or Sheet with me that contains all of your course(s) outcomes. They can be arranged in a bulleted list, or in separate cells on a sheet. The specific layout really doesn't matter, as we have to install them copy & paste style. It's one of those tasks that is more tedious than we prefer, but still definitely worth it!

Step #2 - Attach Your Outcome Set to Your Moodle Course: Once we have your course outcomes installed on our Moodle system, select the Outcome set for your course. In your course settings area:

Click on "Select outcome sets" in the "Outcomes" area:

Select your course outcome set in the "choose an outcome set" dropdown, and click the "Ok" button:

Click the "save and display" button at the bottom of the course settings page:

See the above steps in action:

Step #3 - Attach Outcomes to Activities & Resources: You will be able to indicate individual outcome(s) for each Resource and/or Activity in your Moodle course. Just go to the settings area for the Resource or Activity in question:

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That was easy enough, but what can you do with that? How about a report on the percentage of students who have successfully completed your course outcomes? Easy:

Step #1 - Navigate to Your Course Outcomes Page:

Step #2 - Access the "Activity and Performance" Report: 

Step #3 - Download Your Report:

You've got enough to go on now, don't you? Of course, we are available for any questions or ideas - go ahead and comment below!