The Multi-Outcome Scoring gradebook allows course authors to create multiple desired outcomes for students, align them to activities with varied weights, and track performance against them.
Enable Multi-Outcome Scoring in your course
If available in your domain, you can easily enable and start using the Multi-Outcome Scoring gradebook.
- Select the Editor tool from the desired course card on the Home page.
- Select Tools from the Header menu, then select Course Settings.
3. Select Enable Multi-Outcome Scoring on the Multi-outcome scoring card.
4. Select the scoring outcomes you want to import. If scoring objectives exist in your domain, an Import Scoring Outcomes window displays. If not, you can add your own scoring objectives.
5. Select Done.
6. Save your Course settings.
Add scoring objectives
There are two options when adding scoring objectives:
- Create new outcome
- Use pre-defined outcome
Create new outcome
You can create your own scoring objectives at the course level, but keep in mind that they do not roll up across courses. Imported scoring objectives that are defined at the domain level do roll up.
- Select the Editor tool from the desired course card on the Home page.
- Select Tools from the Header menu, then select Course Settings.
- Select Add scoring outcome in the Multi-Outcome Scoring card.
- Select Create new outcome.
- Provide a Title and Description in the appropriate fields.
- Select the box in the Color column to choose the objective's representative color.
- Indicate the grading weight you want this objective to have in relation to the other objectives.
- Select Done to save the objective and Remove this scoring outcome to delete it.
- Once new objectives are saved, you can select them to edit them and use the up and down arrows to reorder them.
- Save your Course settings.
Use pre-defined outcome
- Select the Editor tool from the desired course card on the Home page.
- Select Tools from the Header menu, then select Course Settings.
- Select Add scoring outcome in the Multi-Outcome Scoring card.
- Select Use pre-defined outcome.
- Check the box(es) next to the outcome(s) you want to add.
- Select Done.
- Once new outcomes are saved, you can click on them to edit them and use the up and down arrows to reorder them.
- Save your Course settings.
Disable Multi-Outcome Scoring
- Select the Editor tool from the desired course card on the Home page.
- Select Tools from the Header menu, then select Course Settings.
- On the Multi-outcome scoring card, select each scoring objective.
- Select Remove this scoring outcome to delete, then select Done.
- Once all scoring objectives are removed, Save your Course settings.
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