Student Learning Assessment in Canvas

Canvas offers several assessment tools you can use to track and improve student learning in your courses. Use the links below to find guides, walkthroughs, and videos on how to enable the full functionality of student learning assessment in Canvas, allowing you to monitor student progress across learning outcomes and target pedagogical interventions to improve student learning.

I. Get Started

• Introduction to Student Learning Assessment in Canvas (video)
  
• Quick Start Guide
• Key Terms

II. Set up Outcomes

• What are Outcomes? (video)
• Add your Outcomes to a course
• Set up how Outcome Mastery is Calculated
• Import program-level Outcomes

III. Align Outcomes with Assignments using Rubrics and Question Banks

• What is Alignment? (video)
• Canvas Assessment Types Overview (video)
  
• Rubrics
  • Create a Rubric
  • Import Rubrics
  • Add a program-level Rubric that can be used across multiple courses
  • Align Outcomes to a Rubric
  • Add a Rubric to an Assignment
  • Add a Rubric to a Quiz
  • Add a Rubric to a Graded Discussion
  • Use a Rubric for Grading
• Question Banks / Quizzes
  • Set up Question Banks for Assessment
  • Align Question Banks with Outcomes
  • Use aligned Question Bank Questions in Quizzes
  • Set up a Scantron Quiz - Works the same as aligning regular quiz questions in question banks

IV. Track and Improve Student Learning

• How can Canvas Help Improve Student Learning? (video)
• The Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • Enable the Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • Use the Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • Export Outcomes results using the Learning Mastery Gradebook
• The Student Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • Enable the Student Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • See the student view of the Student Learning Mastery Gradebook

V. Transfer/Copy Outcomes, Rubrics, and Question Banks between Courses

• Copy assessment materials from one course to another
• Import assessment materials from another course
• Share assessment materials with another instructor
• Set up program-level Outcomes and Rubrics to be used by multiple instructors

VI. Find Additional Help