(SPEECH) [STIRRING MUSIC] (DESCRIPTION) Logo: OTAN. -- A white figure reaches up and out of a blue circle. (SPEECH) SPEAKER: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. (DESCRIPTION) Text: Leading Adult Education Through Support for and the Effective Application of Technology. Professional Development. Teaching with Technology. Online Resources and Video Presentations. OTAN Digests and Newsletters. News and Social Media. Annual Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. Website, O T A N dot U.S. - email, support at O T A N dot U.S. - Phone number, 916-228-2580. Slide: OTAN Online. Text: Outcomes - Tracking Mastery in Canvas. Presenter: Dana Thompson, OTAN SME. December 13, 2025. Slide: Outcomes: Tracking Mastery in Canvas. Text: Dana Thompson, SME. d thompson at S C O E dot net. Logo: OTAN, Rubrics and Outcomes. (SPEECH) DANA THOMPSON: Today we're going to talk about outcomes in Canvas and using them to track mastery for our students. And there have been some updates with outcomes and rubrics in the recent months with Canvas. So we're going to go over some of those updates as well. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: What are Canvas Outcomes? Text: Outcomes Overview. Outcomes allow you to measure-and track mastery and proficiency within your course. This goes beyond a simple grade, giving you a clear, quantitative look at student learning. Outcomes are essential for programmatic assessment and accreditation reporting. They give you a way to link course-level student work to broader institutional or departmental goals. They provide an excellent way to track student progress over time, both for individual learners and for the entire class. (SPEECH) So when we're looking at outcomes, these allow you to measure and track mastery and proficiency within your course. So it's beyond just giving a grade. But it gives you that look over time at a student's learning and progress towards mastery. So they're essential for our programmatic assessment, as well as our accreditation in the adult school realm where we are looking at how our students are mastering a skill or a concept. So it gives you a way to link your course-level work to that broader institutional or department course goal. And again, it tracks student progress over time for both the individual learners as well as for the entire class, which will give you, as the instructor, data in moving forward, whether it's into the next semester or in a new offering of that course. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: What are Canvas Outcomes? Text: Learning Mastery Gradebook: This tool is your strategic dashboard. It allows you to quickly see overall class progress or individual student progress. It's an invaluable tool for identifying which students are excelling and which may need targeted intervention or support. (SPEECH) So we can see the progress towards mastery in the Learning Mastery Gradebook, which I will show you. This Learning Mastery Gradebook is kind of like a dashboard where it allows you to quickly see the overall progress of your course of all of your students or individual student progress. So it's a great tool so that you can see who's on track for reaching mastery, who's excelling, and who might need to be targeted for intervention or support. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: What are Canvas Outcomes? Text: Account-level Outcomes: This is where you get institutional alignment. Outcomes can be created at the root account or sub-account level, enabling faculty to import a standard set of learning objectives. This is crucial for consistent department-wide or institution-wide reporting and data analysis. (SPEECH) We have the ability to have account-level outcomes, so your campus administrator can import account-level outcomes. And I'm going to put a link in the chat. (DESCRIPTION) She switches to a web browser open to a spreadsheet with a list titled Outcomes: Standards. She switches through worksheet tabs of various standards. (SPEECH) These are some outcomes that OTAN has put together that cover ELP standards, UDL guidelines if you're using Canvas for professional development. We have our CTE standards, Anchor standards. We have our Standards for career Ready Practice, our CCR Reading Anchor Standards, Writing Anchor Standards. We have Speaking and Listening Language Anchor Standards, our Reading, Foundational, and our Standards for Mathematical Practice, and our ELP standards. So each tab, we have listed our standards in a format that we can, at the account level, import those into a Canvas instance so that they are available for all of your instructors in that instance. So I'm going to come back over to the main page. And I'm going to put a link to this Google Sheet in the chat. (DESCRIPTION) She copies the URL. It is blurry on the screen and not legible. (SPEECH) That way you can access it. And then, say, you wanted to download the Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards. So I'm going to come over to that tab. And I would come up here to File, (DESCRIPTION) She clicks File in the menu at the top of the spreadsheet. File is on the far left. (SPEECH) Download. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Download from the File dropdown menu. (SPEECH) And I would download it Comma Separated Values. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Comma Separated Values from the Download dropdown menu. (SPEECH) And that will download the file that we will then, in a few minutes, upload into our Canvas instance. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) So those are account-level outcomes. So they are created at the root or the subaccount level. And that allows your faculty to then simply look for those standards and bring them into their courses. And it keeps that consistency department wide or institution wide and provides those standards to all of your instructors. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: What are Canvas Outcomes? Text: Outcomes with Rubrics: This is the most efficient feature. By linking outcomes to a rubric, you can provide detailed feedback and award points for an assignment while simultaneously tracking student mastery of specific learning objectives. It's a two-for-one solution for grading and assessment. (SPEECH) So in order to use outcomes, they need to be attached to rubrics. So I'm going to cover rubrics a bit in this session as well, because by linking your outcomes to a rubric, you can not only provide detailed feedback, award points that will go into the traditional Gradebook for an assignment, but also track that progress towards mastery in our Learning Mastery Gradebook. So we do need to understand rubrics in order to attach outcomes to our assignments, quizzes, discussions, anything graded. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: Outcomes Page. Text: Outcomes Index Page in Canvas Course. This is where you can: Create outcomes, Manage outcomes, Create outcome groups (allows for organization of multiple related outcomes), Import outcomes, Manage rubrics. (SPEECH) So we have an Outcomes Index Page in every course. So I'm going to jump over here to my course. (DESCRIPTION) She switches to a web browser open to a Canvas course titled Outcomes. The Canvas menu is on the far left, then a course navigation menu. In the middle, the Manage tab is open to Outcome Groups, and on the right there is a list of outcomes. (SPEECH) And over here in my course navigation, down here is our Outcomes Index Page. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Outcomes in the course navigation and the right panel clears. She indicates the middle panel under Manage, Outcome Groups. (SPEECH) And you can see that I already have our College and Career Readiness Standards have been imported into my course. They're in a group. So when I expand that group, you can see I have the Language Anchor Standards inside my College and Career Readiness Group. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the group under the Outcome Groups menu, and the right panel populates with the list of standards. (SPEECH) So those have been imported for me. When you go to your-- not for me, by me earlier. [CHUCKLES] When you go to your outcomes index page, yours may be blank. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) But it is on that page where you can create outcomes. You can manage the outcomes that are already there. Again, we can create groups for organization. And this is also where we can import those CSV files. And we can manage the-- can't manage the rubrics on this page. That's a typo. But we can manage those outcomes and look at how they're aligning to the different course assignments that we have. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: Creating Outcome Groups. A screenshot of the Canvas page has the Create button in the top right of the Outcomes panel outlined in red with an arrow pointing at it. It is the middle of three buttons in the top right, between Import and Find. (SPEECH) So again, this is a screenshot of that same page where you can click the Create button to create an outcome group. Let me go back. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the Create button again. (SPEECH) This is to create an individual outcome. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates a link that reads Create New Group at the bottom of the Outcome Groups middle panel. (SPEECH) Down here is where you can create new groups down at the bottom. So in this screenshot, there are several different groups. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab on the browser. Her Outcome Groups list has one item in the list and the Create New Group link below that. (SPEECH) If I jump over here to my Outcomes Index Page, you can see here I have the button to create a new outcome. And because I have my College and Career Standards Group selected, it will create that outcome within that group. Or I can create a new group underneath, so I can nest it. Or I can create a new group just underneath. my course name, which for this course is Webinar Examples. So if I created a new group here and say, I'm in culinary arts. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Create New Group link and a text field appears. She types Culinary Arts Standards and clicks a check mark to the right. The group is added to the list, with the Create New Group link below it. (SPEECH) And so I want to create a group called Culinary Arts. So I'm going to create that group. And you can see when I select the group, there's no outcomes in here right now. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Culinary Arts group link and the panel on the right is empty. (SPEECH) So as long as I'm in that group, when I click on Create, it will create an individual standard within that group. I can also import into this group, since it's selected, the standards from the CSV file. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the Import button to the left of the Create button. She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) So we're creating an outcome or we're creating a group and creating or importing into that group for organizational purposes. So again, with importing outcomes you would select the Import and it will import those outcomes directly into the group that you selected. And if I just come over here to the CSV file, what we're looking at is the name of the standard. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the web browser with the spreadsheet tab open. She indicates the first column of the spreadsheet. (SPEECH) This is the name of the group. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column B. (SPEECH) And then these are the outcomes that will be within that group. So by importing, you can also automatically create those groups. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column C. (SPEECH) This is the title of the group. And these are the titles of the different standards. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column D. (SPEECH) Here is a description. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column E. (SPEECH) Here is a friendly description. This description is for your purposes when you're looking at accreditation. This is for our students so that they understand what that standard is assessing. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column F. (SPEECH) And then the display name. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates column G. (SPEECH) And then the calculation method, which I'm going to go over in a little bit. So all of these settings are imported on the CSV file. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab and clicks Create. A pop-up form opens with text fields. (SPEECH) But when you come in to create a new standard or outcome, these are the different things that need to be included, which are automatically in that CSV file. So let's create an outcome. So again, I'm in the Culinary Arts Class. And so I'm going to create an outcome that has to do with demonstration of-- let me find it because I'm just going to do some copying and pasting-- knife skills. So we're in Introductory to Knife Skills. And so I'm going to create an outcome. And this is an industry standard. So I'm going to enter that industry standard. (DESCRIPTION) She types in the Name field. The font is blurry and is not legible. (SPEECH) That's the name that I'm tracking. But that doesn't make sense for my students. So my friendly name, this is going to be "of Knife Skills." (DESCRIPTION) She types in the Friendly Name field. (SPEECH) So that's the friendly name that they will see. And so the standard description I'm going to put in here. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes text in the Description text box. (SPEECH) And I'm going to actually just paste the text. I didn't want that table. So it demonstrates proper knife skills according to industry standards, focusing on cutting techniques, safety, and accuracy. So I can put in a longer description, maybe the different types of cutting, whether it's julienne or dicing, those kinds of things. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to a Friendly Description text box. (SPEECH) And again, there's the friendly description for our students in case this is a little bit education speak [CHUCKLES] that they may not understand. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to a series of Proficiency Ratings with Points on the right. (SPEECH) And then we come into proficiency rating. So this is how you're going to assess that progress towards mastery. So if I come over here and we take a look at-- so this is what we're doing right now. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation and clicks quickly through slides showing screenshots of the create outcome pop-up. Slide: Calculation Methods. Text: Selecting the right Calculation Method is essential, as it directly impacts how Canvas determines a student's mastery level over time. Decaying Average: skills expected to improve with practice. N number of times: competencies the require multiple, successful demonstrations of mastery. Most Recent Score: when only the final performance matters. Highest Score: multiple attempts to achieve mastery. Average: holistic view across all assessments for a particular outcome. (SPEECH) Let me find-- here we go. So the calculation method is essential. So it's how Canvas will determine the student's mastery over time. So I'm assessing their skills. And I want them to improve with practice. So for this outcome, I would probably use decaying average because that's going to look at your skills over time. And they're expected to improve. And it weighs more recent assessments more heavily than the ones in the past. So (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab. Below the Proficiency Ratings, there is a dropdown titled, Calculation Method. She clicks it and chooses Decaying Average. To the right, an example appears. (SPEECH) if I come over here to my outcome and I have this calculation decaying average, you can see here that between two assessments, the most recent assessment will get 65% and the first will get 35%. And if I assess it multiple times, more than two times-- say I assess it six times. I put this outcome on six different assignments. It will assess assignments 1 through 5 at 35% and assignment 6 at 65%. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates a box with 65 below the Calculation Method, then types a different number. (SPEECH) I can also change this. So say I want that final assessment to be maybe not more than half but 50%. Or maybe it's going to be more. It's going to be 80%. So you can see that it changes. So I have my six assignments, they score a 1, then a 4, but then they go down to a 2, then up to a 3, a 5, a 3 and a 6, this 6 is going to be factored at, in this case, 80% of the score, while the remaining will be factored at 20% of that final score. So that's our decaying average. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) The N number of times, those are the number of competencies that are required successfully in order to reach that mastery. So (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas page and chooses N Number of Times in the dropdown. An example appears on the right. (SPEECH) let's take a look at that. So that is N number of times. So in this case, if there are however many assignments, they must achieve mastery at least five times. And mastery is set up here. (DESCRIPTION) In the Proficiency Ratings Points section. (SPEECH) So if I kept these proficiency ratings, they're going to exceed mastery at four points, they're going to reach mastery at three, and they're going to approach mastery at 0, 1, or 2. So it's going to look at all of these scores. And if I say that they need to reach mastery within all of these assignments at least five times, this student met it. So mastery, again, is at 3. So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So they met mastery or exceeded mastery nine times. So their final score is exceeding mastery. So it takes that and looks at the number of times that it reached that or exceeded that mastery score. (DESCRIPTION) She chooses Most Recent Score in the dropdown and an example appears on the right. She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) We also have the most recent score. And that most recent score is great when only that final performance matters. So maybe you have several check for understanding quizzes or assignments, but only that final attempt counts towards mastery. So you have a quiz where you've given four attempts and they take it all four times, it's going to keep that fourth score. If they only take that quiz twice, it's going to keep that most recent score, that second score. So that's great when you want them to practice and have the ability to retake something. But once they meet mastery, that needs to be that last score. And then the highest score is useful when you want to give students multiple attempts to achieve mastery. And as long as they hit mastery, it's going to keep that highest score. And then average, that gives you the holistic view across all assessments for that particular outcome. So if I've given this knife skills over 10, it's going to show me that over these 10 assignments, what is that average that the student was able to reach. So those are our calculation methods. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab. (SPEECH) Coming back to our assignment here. So I'm going to go back for this one (DESCRIPTION) She chooses Decaying Average in the dropdown and an example appears on the right. (SPEECH) and I want it to be that decaying average, because I want them to see their most recent assessment gets that higher weight. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the Proficiency Rating and Points fields above. (SPEECH) You can change the proficiency rating titles here. You can also change the points and then indicate which one is mastery down here at the bottom. You can also delete if you don't want this many. (DESCRIPTION) There are delete icons shaped like trash cans to the right of the Points boxes. (SPEECH) And then I believe you can add as well. Let's try. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates a blue plus button below the bottom Proficiency Rating. (SPEECH) Yes, with the plus sign. So you can add additional ratings if you need. Don't make it too complicated. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls below the Calculation Method area to a Location field. (SPEECH) Now this is going to be saved under my Culinary Arts Standards, which is that group that I made earlier. So I'm just going to double check. And I have everything that I need in there. And so I'm going to click on Create. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Create, a blue button in the lower right corner. (SPEECH) And so now you can see that I have Culinary Arts. (DESCRIPTION) The Culinary Arts outcome group is added to the Canvas middle pane Outcome Groups list. (SPEECH) Let's refresh and see if it shows up. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks it and the standard appears in the right panel. (SPEECH) Yes. So there it is right there. And you can see that this is a course-level standard or outcome. If I come over to my college and career groups, these are at the institution level. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the College and Career Groups outcome below Outcome Groups and the right panel populates with the standards. The course-level standard has a red icon and the institution-level standards have a purple icon. (SPEECH) So these are ones that my Canvas Admin imported into the Canvas instance, or account, or subaccount. And then I can go and find those to bring them into my course. So if I know that something's been uploaded by my admin, I'm going to click on Find. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Find, the button to the right of Create in the upper right corner. A page opens titled, Add Outcomes to Course. It has a navigation menu on the left and a panel on the right with the Text: Pro Tip. Save yourself a lot of time by only adding the outcomes that are specific to your course content. (SPEECH) Here are my Account Standards. Those are the ones that have been uploaded to the Canvas account by OTAN. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Account Standards in the navigation menu and it expands. She chooses OTAN, and the outcomes list appears on the right. (SPEECH) And you can see that I have all of these. So say, now I want to bring in some standards for Career Ready Practice. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Career Ready Practice at the bottom of the OTAN list in the navigation menu and the standards appear on the right. (SPEECH) So these are our Career Ready Practice Standards. These are all at the institution. I can click over here and add just those that I want. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates Add buttons on the far right side of each standard listed, then indicates a button at the top right of the list titled, Add All Outcomes. (SPEECH) Or I can add all 12 outcomes in this group into my course. If I wanted to see what these all are, I'm going to move this over. (DESCRIPTION) She drags the navigation pane right divider to the right, expanding the navigation pane window to read the long names of the outcomes list. (SPEECH) And I think I want my Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Speaking and Listening and the standards appear on the right. (SPEECH) So I'm going to click over here. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a button in the upper right of the standards list titled, Add All Outcomes. (SPEECH) There are six outcomes. And I'm going to go ahead and add all outcomes into my course. It might take a minute. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks and the file processes. She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) And while that's working, we'll come back over here. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: What are Canvas Rubrics? Text: Rubrics Overview. Rubric is an assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality. Rows define the various criteria. Columns define levels of performance. Attach to any graded item: Quizzes, Assignments, Graded Discussions. A rubric table appears on the lower right. (SPEECH) And so, like I said earlier, a rubric is required to attach those outcomes to the different assignments, quizzes, discussions, anything that's graded. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to Canvas. A pop-up with a green checkmark appears and the Add buttons to the right of the standards are grayed out. (SPEECH) So these were all added. So I'm going to click on Done. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Done, a blue button in the lower right. She clicks on the outcome group in Canvas. (SPEECH) And here we have our-- let's move this over so I can see. Yep, there are our Speaking and Listening Standards Outcomes. And they've all been imported into my course so now I can use those. So there's two steps. If you're the Canvas Admin, you're going to upload that CSV file. If you are an instructor, then once those have been uploaded by your Canvas Admin, you're going to go find the ones that you want and import the ones that you want. So if you're the Canvas-- or if you are an instructor, and you have that CSV file, and you want to upload it to your course, you could do it either way. But if I click on Import, notice here that it needs to be a CSV or JSON format only. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Import, to the left of Create. The import page opens, with an image of a rocket ship launching and the Text: Upload your Outcomes! There is more small, blurry text. (SPEECH) And I can choose that file from my Downloads folder, which is this one right here. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the rocket and the screen freezes. It does not show her file manager. (SPEECH) These are our Speaking and Listening Standards, which [CHUCKLES] I just imported, so I'm not going to import them again. But you would just open and it would do the same process and import them into your course or into your account level. And here's the format that you need. So if you don't have the ones that we've done here in OTAN, this is how you're going to format that CSV file. (DESCRIPTION) The file opens, showing a table titled, Outcomes Data Format, with names and information. She returns to Canvas with Outcomes in the middle column and nothing on the right. (SPEECH) OK. So now that we have our outcomes, again, either by importing from the account, or from a CSV file, or creating them from scratch, or finding them from the account level, now we have our outcomes in here. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the outcomes in outcome groups. Above the title, Outcome Groups, there are two tabs open. Manage and Alignments. She clicks on Alignments. (SPEECH) If you click on alignments, this will tell you what assignments have been attached. (DESCRIPTION) A list with 21 Assessable Artifacts and 15 outcomes listed appears. (SPEECH) So you can see here that with Language Anchor 1, I have two assignments that are using that outcome. (DESCRIPTION) The first item on the list is Language Anchor 1. To the right, it lists the number of assignments. She clicks on Language Anchor 1 and it expands downwards showing the assignments in a list. (SPEECH) So I can expand that to find out which of those assignments are there. And there's links to them so I can go and take a look. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on another item, Language Anchor 3 and shows the assignments. (SPEECH) This one is attached to three assignments. So that's on my reflection, a reflection and a reflection. So you can see how these are all aligned. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the 15 outcomes and 21 assessable artifacts listed at the top of the page. They each have statistics listed under them. (SPEECH) You can also see that I have 15 outcomes, the coverage and the average alignments per outcome. This is not a course with students in it so my numbers are very low. Yours will be higher once you have students being assessed. And just more data for you to use. 21 accessible artifacts, which are your assignment submissions. And again, these numbers change as students complete those assignments. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down and clicks the Knife Skills item. It has 0 Assignments. (SPEECH) So here's the one that I added earlier, doing the proper knife skills. Right now, it's not attached to any assignments, but we're going to do that by adding a rubric to an assignment and pulling in that outcome. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) So rubrics. Rubrics are that the assessment tool. I'm sure you've used them. But in Canvas, you can actually attach them to assignments, quizzes, discussions, questions, anything that's graded. It helps streamline that grading procedure and keep it consistent with all of your submissions. You can import, just like we did with outcomes, you can import and align your rubrics from previous courses. Or if you have a department that's created a rubric and it's imported at the account level, you can import those rubrics and attach them to assignments to keep that consistency across different teachers, but the same course or the same skills assessment. And again, you can align specific outcomes that are already created and pulled into your course. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: How to Use Canvas Rubrics? Text: How to Use Rubrics. You can add a rubric to an assignment to help students understand expectations for the assignment and how you intend to score their submissions. Rubrics can be added by finding an existing rubric in one of your courses, or by creating a new rubric. You can only add a rubric to assignments that use the Online or On Paper submission types. On the right is a screenshot of a form titled Areas of Research, with a Plus Rubric button on the lower left. (SPEECH) So how we are going to use them. So again, it has to be on graded item, assignments, quizzes, discussions, as long as they're graded. It doesn't have to count towards the final score, but it does need to be something that will go into the Grades tab. And down at the bottom, you see that plus rubric. Oh, and again, make sure that when you are creating your assignment, under the submission type, you have online or on paper. That may have changed. That might be one of the updates. I think you can add rubrics to the other assignment types as well. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab. (SPEECH) So I'm going to come into my Modules. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Modules on the left navigation menu. A list of modules appears on the right. (SPEECH) And I'm going to come down here to this Chop, Dice, and Slice. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to Course Assignments and clicks on Level 1 Assignment: Chop, Dice, and Slice, the first in the list. (SPEECH) And you can see here I have two assignments, a level 1 and a level 2. But I'm going to go ahead and come into my level 1. (DESCRIPTION) The assignment opens. It is a document titled, Knife Skills Mastery, with headers including Assignment Goal, Requirements, Submission, Grading, and Technical Support. She scrolls down through it. (SPEECH) And here is my assignment goal, the requirements. So they're going to choose a recipe that requires the use of at least three different knife cuts, and then prepare it, and document their progress using pictures or maybe a video. And then write a short reflection about the recipe, and the three cuts, and how they did, what was the challenge, what was the one thing you learned. And then they're going to submit their reflection and their documentation of the process. So I want them to really know what is going to be assessed. (DESCRIPTION) Below the document, there is a Create Rubric button on the lower left, with a Find Rubric button to the right. (SPEECH) So I'm going to go ahead and I can either create a rubric, or if I've already done this before, I can find a rubric. But let's go ahead and create a rubric. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Create Rubric button and a Create Rubric form opens with text fields and dropdowns. (SPEECH) And so this rubric name, we're going to give the name Knife Skills. (DESCRIPTION) She types the name and then chooses items from the dropdown menus. (SPEECH) And this is going to be either a scale or just written feedback. So we're going to do a scale. And then I'm going to do points. And the rating order is from high to low. And the scoring is going to be scored. (DESCRIPTION) There is a checkbox below the name field titled, Don't Post to Learning Mastery Gradebook. She clicks it. (SPEECH) I can create-- or check Don't post to Learning Mastery Gradebook. But because we're going to add outcomes, we're going to go ahead and post that to the Learning Mastery Gradebook and I'm going to draft a new criterion. (DESCRIPTION) Below the form there is a section titled, Criteria Builder, with two buttons, Draft New Criterion and Create From Outcomes. She clicks Draft New Criterion and a pop-up window titled, Create New Criterion, opens. It has fields for the name and description and then a list for the display, rating name, and rating description below. The rating names run from Exceeds to Mastery, Near, Blow, and No Evidence. (SPEECH) So my first criterion is going to be the Knife Skills. So they need to have at least three. So here's the criterion name. (DESCRIPTION) She types Knife Skills in the name. (SPEECH) And I'm actually going to take the criterion Three Required Cuts. And I'm going to have-- this exceeds will be that description so that they know exactly what I'm looking for. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes a description in the exceeds rating description box. (SPEECH) So our mastery will have this description. Oops. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes a description in the mastery box. (SPEECH) So they will hit mastery as long as they have all three required cuts with good uniformity and precision. If they are near mastery, then-- and again, I'm using the same terminology that I used with our outcomes, so they do go hand-in-hand. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes a description in the near box. (SPEECH) And they might need an improvement or they're below mastery for fewer than three cuts and there's no evidence if they don't submit anything. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes a description in the below box. (SPEECH) So maybe my rating name I want to be a little bit different. So instead of exceeds, we're going to say this is exemplary. (DESCRIPTION) She retypes the names. (SPEECH) And then instead of mastery, they're going to show proficiency. Proficient. [CHUCKLES] And then instead of near, they're developing. So this doesn't have to be-- and then below, I don't want them-- that's kind of negative, so I'm going to put needs improvement. And then, of course, no evidence if they don't do whatever was asked in the rubric. Because this is going to be their grade in the traditional Gradebook, this might make more sense. And so there's my Knife Skills criterion. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a blue button titled, Save Criterion, on the lower left, and the Criterion appears in the Create Rubric form below the Criteria Builder. There is now a second item with Draft New Criterion and Create from Outcome buttons. (SPEECH) I can add another criterion which might be the recipe. So I'm going to draft a new one. (DESCRIPTION) She again clicks Draft New Criterion. The pop-up opens again. She closes it. (SPEECH) And again, it has all of the traditional ones. I think I'm going to exit the rubric editor. And I believe I can come over here and duplicate this one so that I have the same terminology and I'm just going to change the criterion name and the descriptions. (DESCRIPTION) To the far right of the Knife Skills criterion, there are three icons. She clicks the third one. It opens an Edit Criterion box. She edits the name. (SPEECH) A little less typing. So I'm going to duplicate it. And instead of Knife Skills, Recipe Execution and Final Dish. And I can put in a description or if it's within the criteria name, it's optional. So as you can see here that it has the rating names that I changed in the last criterion so I don't have to do that. But in an exemplary one, I'm going to change the description to be appropriate for this criterion. (DESCRIPTION) She replaces the rating descriptions. (SPEECH) And then in order to be proficient, I'm going to change that description. And this not only helps the students in understanding exactly what they need to do to reach that proficiency or that exemplary. It also helps you in grading to make sure that you're consistent across all submissions. So I'm going to save that criterion. So I have two criterions. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Save Criterion button and the second Criterion, Recipe Execution and Final Dish, is listed on the Create Rubric form. (SPEECH) Actually, I could put in more. So maybe I want to have a criterion on how they documented their process and then their reflection. And actually, let me do put in the reflection one, because I want to show you a great tool that is new. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the icon to duplicate the second criterion and the Edit Criterion box opens. She changes the name and types a description. (SPEECH) So this is going to be the Criterion Reflection. So that will be a reflection on the process, challenges, and the learning. So let's quickly put in our descriptions for the different criterion. (DESCRIPTION) She pastes new descriptions. (SPEECH) And then we'll save it. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Save Criterion button and the Reflection Criterion appears as the third item in the list in the Create Rubric form. (SPEECH) And then we will also add the outcome or the standard that we're assessing in our Learning Mastery Gradebook to see their progress over time. So that can be another criterion. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Create From Outcome button. A pop-up opens with a list of Final Outcomes. (SPEECH) So I'm going to come over here and I'm going to come over and pull in the one that we added earlier, which was the knife skills. (DESCRIPTION) She chooses Knife Skills in the list and it expands to the right and shows the outcome information. (SPEECH) So you can see that's this one right here. This is the one that we pulled in earlier. I'm going to go ahead and import that. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a blue button titled, Import, in the lower right. The criterion appears on the Create Rubric form as the fourth item in the Criteria Builder list. (SPEECH) And you can see here that this one is locked. (DESCRIPTION) It has a padlock icon. (SPEECH) So an outcome cannot be edited because it is going to be attached to multiple assignments and rubrics. And so in order to keep that consistency, you can't edit the outcome here. If you wanted to edit it prior to any submissions, you could do that in the Outcomes Index Page. (DESCRIPTION) The scale is listed below the criterion name and description. (SPEECH) Now you'll see here that the rating scale is 15. And everything else-- oh, nope. Scoring we want scored. (DESCRIPTION) She changes the rightmost dropdown at the top of the Create Rubric form to Scored. Points appear to the right of each criterion with a title, 16 points possible. (SPEECH) There we go. So you can see here that it shows the different points, so 16 points possible. These are all editable. This one is not because it's an outcome. But I can view the criterion here so I know what is being assessed. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the first of the three icons to the right of the fourth criterion and a pop-up with the assessment elements appears. She closes it. (SPEECH) So you can draft new criterion. You can pull in a criterion from an outcome. Let's preview what this rubric looks like. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a button on the lower right titled, Preview Rubric. A pane slides in from the right with the Rubric on it. She scrolls down through the rubric elements. It has rating scores and comment boxes. (SPEECH) So when our students look at it, it shows the knife skills, the recipe execution, the reflection, and our demonstration of knife skills. And so as you're grading, all you have to do is choose which score they get. But all of that other information will be included when the student looks at their graded assignment. And you can give specific feedback comments on each criterion so the students know and understand what they need to work on as well as the outcome. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Create. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a blue button on the lower right of the Rubric form, to the left of the Preview button, titled, Create. The rubric appears below the document in the Canvas assignment page. (SPEECH) And so now you can see that this assignment has this rubric knife skills. I can preview it here. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a Preview Rubric button on the lower left and the rubric pane slides in from the right. (SPEECH) And you might know it more in the vertical. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a dropdown at the top of the rubric to change the rating numbers from horizontal to vertical. (SPEECH) You have different ways of viewing it, but it's all the same information. If you've been using rubrics, this is the traditional view. Again, you can see all of the data, the assessment points. You can leave comments. But if I were to come in here and click on Exemplary, it's going to automatically add that score and show the students which one they received, as well as any comments I may leave. So that is the benefit of rubrics. (DESCRIPTION) She closes the preview. To the right of the Preview button, there are three icons. She hovers over the icons, edit, delete, and replace. (SPEECH) So we created it a rubric here. Now that one is attached, I can go in and edit it. Just remember that if it's attached to several different assignments, it will edit it for all of those assignments. If you've already assessed a student, it will actually break that apart from the original rubric and create a copy of it. So just keep that in mind. I can delete this rubric if it's not the one that I want to use. Or I can replace it with one that I've created previously and it will swap it out and use that. You can only attach one rubric to an exhibit. (DESCRIPTION) Below the rubric there is a checkbox titled, Enable self assessment. (SPEECH) Now this is new, this enable self-assessment. Let me come back over here to my slides to make sure. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks quickly through slides showing the create a rubric process. Slide: Self-Assessment Rubric. A screenshot shows the self-assessment checkbox at the bottom of an assignment page. (SPEECH) So we did find a rubric. We attached it. This self-assessment is great and it's new. And this allows your students to go through the process of self-assessing their work through the rubric and show you where their learnings or their struggles were. (DESCRIPTION) The next slide shows a screenshot of the bottom of a rubric with an arrow pointing to a Self-Assess button on the lower right. (SPEECH) So when you check that and the student opens up the assignment, they will see this self-assess button down at the bottom next to either the Submit or New Attempt button. So then they can go and fill that out. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to Canvas and checks the self-assessment box. (SPEECH) So if I come back over here to this assignment, I'm going to enable self-assessment. If it's grayed out, it means that you can't because it's already been assessed. So you want to make sure you do all of these things prior to students actually completing the assignment. But what does this look like for a student? (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a button on the top right of Canvas titled, View as a Student. (SPEECH) So I'm going to come into Student View. (DESCRIPTION) The assignment loads in Student View. It shows the Knife Skills Mastery document. The top right has 0 out of 16 points, and the top left has a dropdown showing Attempt 1. (SPEECH) Here's my first attempt. And I can come down here (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls to the bottom, where a table displays the rubric. Below the rubric there are icons for submission types. (SPEECH) and I can choose text, media. I can upload something. So text is using the Rich Content Editor. I can upload a video that maybe I took with my phone. I can upload a document. If you have Studio, I can create my assignment using Studio. And then here are some more. (DESCRIPTION) At the bottom right, there is a grayed-out Self-Assess button. (SPEECH) But you can see over here, this isn't ready yet because I haven't submitted anything yet. So I would come in as a student. And I would-- I did something wrong because there's unlimited attempts. Well, let's just try something. So this is a test of the self-assessment. (DESCRIPTION) She submits the assignment in the rich text editor, typing in "This is a test of the self-assessment." (SPEECH) So now I can submit my assignment. (DESCRIPTION) A blue button titled, Submit Assignment, appears on the lower right, to the left of the Self-Assess button. (SPEECH) So you can see I'm in progress. There (DESCRIPTION) At the top of the assignment, to the right of the attempt number, it displays the text: In Progress. She scrolls down through the assignment details and the submission form. (SPEECH) are my details. There's my answer. And so I'm going to submit. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the blue Submit button. Confetti falls down the screen, and the Self-Assess button becomes live. (SPEECH) And now that I've submitted it, because I've been given multiple attempts, I could do it again. Or I could come over here and self-assess. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Self-Assess button and the rubric panel slides in from the right. (SPEECH) And that will pull up this rubric. And (DESCRIPTION) She rates herself and types comments for the criterion. (SPEECH) then I can say, I think I did pretty well on my knife skills, but I need more practice on the julienne skill. And then I can come over here to Recipe Execution and Final Dish and say it turned out pretty good, but it could have been better. And then on my reflection, I think I did pretty well on my reflection. And did I demonstrate proper knife skills? Hmm, I probably could use a little bit more. But I think I'm mastering that at this point. Now you can't see this because my screen, so I'm going to zoom out because I'm on a laptop so that I can see that Submit button back here. (DESCRIPTION) The Save button is hidden off-screen. (SPEECH) So that's my self-assessment. I've given myself 13 out of 16. (DESCRIPTION) She closes the self-assessment. (SPEECH) And then that is something that my instructor will see. So if I leave Student View (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Leave Student View at the bottom right of the screen. She clicks Speed Grader in a navigation menu at the top right of the instructor page for the assignment. The grader opens. It is blank. (SPEECH) and I come into SpeedGrader as the instructor, it doesn't show the student self-assessment because I couldn't see the Save because my screen is so small and in Student View, that pink bar hides it. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates the top of the speed grader form. (SPEECH) But up here, you would be able to see how the students scored themselves. But as the instructor, I can view this rubric. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a View Rubric button in the middle of the grader. The rubric table opens. She expands the grader to see all the ratings. She clicks the ratings and the score tallies on the top right. (SPEECH) And after viewing the student's submission, I can say, knife skills, yes, they were proficient and then give a comment. The recipe execution, that was proficient as well. And they did a proficient job on the reflection. And just by clicking those three and the demonstration, I'm going to say near mastery. So my score was 11 points. If the student actually saved theirs, it would show the student's score as well. But you can see how that will keep consistency. And then I can give some overall comments (DESCRIPTION) There is a comment box at the bottom, and a blue button titled, Submit, on the lower right. Above the comment box but below the rubric, there is also a blue button titled, Submit Assessment, which she clicks. (SPEECH) and click on Submit Assessment. (DESCRIPTION) The graded rubric with ratings appears. (SPEECH) And then this is what the students will see when they come in to their Gradebook. Now if I wanted to see this rubric in a different view, I can do the horizontal or the vertical, just like we saw in the other place. (DESCRIPTION) She changes the layout via a dropdown at the top of the rubric. (SPEECH) OK, (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. (SPEECH) let's come back to here. So that self-assessment, which is fairly new. And I think it's a really powerful tool for our students. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: Learning Mastery Gradebook. The slide shows a screenshot of the gradebook, with a table that has several colored icons. (SPEECH) So let's talk about the Learning Mastery Gradebook. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab. (SPEECH) I am going to come back to my course. Actually let me show you this first. I'm going to come back to Modules. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Modules from the navigation menu on the left. (SPEECH) And you can see that was my level 1 assignment. But now I have a level 2. So this is going to be a different assignment. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Level 2 Knife Skills assignment and it opens on the right. (SPEECH) And it's not, but just say it is. Because remember, I'm assessing their progress over time, I'm going to find that rubric that I used in the last assessment. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a Find Rubric button at the bottom left of the page. The Find Rubric pane slides in from the right, listing rubrics. She chooses the Knife Skills rubric. (SPEECH) And that's this one right here. And it's in my webinar course. But maybe it's something in one of the other courses that I'm in. So you can pull in rubrics from other courses. (DESCRIPTION) There is a dropdown menu at the top that lists all the courses. (SPEECH) And so I'm going to use that same rubric and add it to this assignment as well. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a blue button titled, Add, at the bottom of the Find Rubric pane, and the rubric appears on the assignment. (SPEECH) And so you can see here. So it's now a part of this. And the due date has passed because I created this. So I'm going to come in and change the due date. (DESCRIPTION) She edits the assignment and scrolls down to the bottom of the page to change the assignment details. (SPEECH) So we're going to come down here and we're going to assign it to everyone. And we're going to make it do, let's say, January 7 when we come back from break, 2026. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Save on the lower right. (SPEECH) So now that it's an assignment in the future, I can check that (DESCRIPTION) She attempts to check the Enable Self-Assessment box on the assignment page, but it is grayed out. (SPEECH) nobody's assessed it. Maybe because there was self-assessment. Anyways, let's come in and edit the rubric. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the edit icon for the rubric and the Edit Rubric form opens. She indicates the criterion she created earlier. (SPEECH) So you can see I have those skills and the outcomes. (DESCRIPTION) She indicates a notice at the top of the page. (SPEECH) And you see here that I can't modify this because we used it on that last assignment. So if I do make changes and I save it, it will save it as a new rubric. So I'm going to exit. (DESCRIPTION) She closes the form. (SPEECH) I need to figure out why this enable self-assessment isn't there. It may be because it's already been used on a previous assignment. But I didn't have to redo that rubric. I could pull that in. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Grades on the left navigation menu. (SPEECH) And then the Learning Mastery Gradebook. (DESCRIPTION) The gradebook opens. It is a spreadsheet with a row for each student and columns for the assignments. (SPEECH) So when you're looking at your Grades tab, this is your traditional Gradebook where it's just point based. And depending on your Gradebook setup, you might have groups. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls to the far right of the gradebook where there are columns for groups, imported assignments, and totals. (SPEECH) You can see I have Imported Assignments, which is 0% of the grade. And then here's the totals. But what I really want to see is how they are progressing towards mastery. So I'm going to change my Gradebook view to Learning Mastery Gradebook. (DESCRIPTION) At the top left of the gradebook page, there is a dropdown menu. She chooses Learning Mastery Gradebook, and the gradebook changes to a new spreadsheet. On the right is a key with colorful icons for the ratings from exceeds down to no evidence. One of the assignments for one of the students has an icon in it. (SPEECH) Now, again, this is a test. These aren't real students. But this one that I just did in the test Student View, you can see I got a 2 out of 3. But when I go to complete-- let's come back to the Modules. (DESCRIPTION) She goes to Canvas in another tab. (SPEECH) And as a test student, I'll complete that second one. (DESCRIPTION) She goes to Modules, clicks the Level 2 Knife Skills assignment, views it as a student, and types text for a submission. (SPEECH) So this is the one that we just attached the rubric to. So I'm going to view as a student. And I'm going to submit. This is going to be my second Knife Skills assignment. And ooh, did something. Reflection. So I am doing this second assignment that has that same rubric. I'm going to submit it. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Submit and then closes the student view. (SPEECH) And then as the instructor, when I come in to SpeedGrader and grade that assignment, so I'm going to view this rubric. (DESCRIPTION) She opens Speed Grader and grades the assignment, clicking the ratings quickly and submitting it. (SPEECH) And I'm going to say, this time the knife skills were exemplary. The recipe was still proficient. The reflection was exemplary. And they are meeting mastery of the knife skills. So I'm going to assess that. And when I come back to the Learning Mastery Gradebook, you'll see that that changed because now it is part of two assignments. (DESCRIPTION) The gradebook icon color has changed. (SPEECH) So this will constantly give you the overall view of how the student is doing towards this outcome over time. (DESCRIPTION) She hovers over the icon and pop-up appears. (SPEECH) So mastery is set at 3. This is a calculation method of the decaying average. And so not quite at mastery yet. But it gives you that overview. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the student's name in the table and a pane slides in from the right with detailed statistics. (SPEECH) And if I wanted to come in and drill down even further, I can click on this test student and I can see how they're doing on the last graded items. So you still have all of that information. And if I come into the Skills, coming back to my course navigation and down to my Outcomes and my Alignments. (DESCRIPTION) In the left navigation menu, she clicks Outcomes, then chooses the Alignments tab. (SPEECH) And I want to see that Skills, (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to Skills and expands it. (SPEECH) so you can see, here, all of the assignments that this is attached to and the different information about it. (DESCRIPTION) It lists the skills assignments. She returns to the slide presentation. The screenshot of the Learning Mastery Gradebook shows several icons for each student. (SPEECH) So really powerful data that helps you assess your students' progress towards mastery and skills, whether it would be your trade skills or language skills. And this is a view of what it might look like where you're looking at an ELA standard, an outcome that was manually put in by the teacher. Here's another standard. Here's another standard. But you can get a good view on who's exceeding who's at mastery. And then if you take a look at below mastery, well below, James might need a little bit more assistance than some of the other students. But it gives you that holistic view of your students and how they are progressing towards mastery. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Text: Follow Us. Twitter, slash O T A N. Linked In, slash company slash O T A N underscore 2. Like us. Facebook, slash O T A N Serves Adult Education. Subscribe. YouTube, slash O T A N Serves Adult Education. Professional Development, News, Teach with Technology, Videos, TDLS, Online Resources. O T A N dot U S. 916-228-2580. (SPEECH) And that, in a nutshell, is Outcomes and Rubrics. I encourage you to come into Outcomes and experiment in importing. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab and clicks Rubrics in the left navigation menu. A list of rubrics opens. (SPEECH) You also have the Rubrics Index Page where for this course, these are the different rubrics that I have. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks a dropdown to the right of a rubric. (SPEECH) I can come over here and edit, duplicate, copy it to another course. If I'm not using it anymore, I can archive it so it's not in that list. And then you can also take a look at any of those that might have been archived. (DESCRIPTION) There is an Archived tab. At the top right, there is a blue button titled, Create a New Rubric. (SPEECH) You can create a new rubric here if you're not ready to put it on an assignment yet but you know you're going to use it. You can create your rubrics here so that you don't have to do that when you're creating your assignment. (DESCRIPTION) To the left of the Create rubric button there is an Import button. She clicks it and an Import pane slides in from the right. (SPEECH) Or I can import a rubric. I can download this template, write all of my rubrics for the semester, and then upload it, so you're importing it that way. And you can also say, I want to download my language standard and my reflection rubric. (DESCRIPTION) She selects both rubrics. There is a blue button in the lower right titled, Download. (SPEECH) I could download those and upload those into other courses, maybe share them with your colleagues. So there's a lot of really great functionality with Outcomes and Rubrics. And that is Outcomes and Rubrics. Rubrics and Outcomes. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the slide presentation. Then she goes to the browser tab with the spreadsheet listing outcomes. (SPEECH) And I hope you take advantage of the outcomes that have been created by OTAN. So that link was in the chat. And if you have any questions, you can always come into Canvas and go into Global Announcements. (DESCRIPTION) She returns to the Canvas tab and clicks the top icon in the Canvas menu on the left. A pane for Dana Thompson slides in from the left. She clicks Global Announcements at the bottom of a link list and an announcements page opens. At the bottom, there are office hours and a link. (SPEECH) And in here, I have Canvas office hours. So if you'd like to meet with me, you can click on this link and book some time with me. I have time throughout the rest of the year through June. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the link and a calendar with office hour slots opens. (SPEECH) And that's it. So thank you very much. And I hope you enjoy playing around with Outcomes and Rubrics. (DESCRIPTION) Slide: OTAN Online. Text: Outcomes - Tracking Mastery in Canvas. Presenter: Dana Thompson. O T A N SME. December 13, 2025. Slide: OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Text: Follow Us. Twitter, slash O T A N. Linked In, slash company slash O T A N underscore 2. Like us. Facebook, slash O T A N Serves Adult Education. Subscribe. YouTube, slash O T A N Serves Adult Education. Professional Development, News, Teach with Technology, Videos, TDLS, Online Resources. O T A N dot U S. 916-228-2580.