Student Learning Assessment in Canvas

Canvas provides several assessment tools to track and improve student learning outcomes. By creating outcomes, aligning them with course activities, and evaluating student performance through rubrics and quizzes, instructors can gather meaningful evidence of student learning and identify opportunities for instructional improvement.

The resources below provide guidance for planning, implementing, and managing outcomes-based assessment within Canvas.

I. Getting Started

Build a foundation for using outcomes-based assessment in Canvas.

• Assessment Basics (PDF)
• Quick Start Guide (PDF)
• Key Terms (PDF)
• Canvas Assessment Types Overview (Video)
• Data Usefulness (PDF)

II. Create and Manage Outcomes

Learn how to create outcomes and prepare them for use in assessment activities.

• Creating Outcomes in Canvas (PDF)
• Outcomes and Measures (PDF)
• Import Program-level Outcomes (Webpage)

III. Align Outcomes to Course Activities

Connect learning outcomes to assignments, rubrics, and quizzes to collect assessment data.

• What is Alignment? (Video)
• Aligning Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) into a Course (PDF)
• Integrating Outcomes to Course Assignment Rubrics (PDF)
• Import Rubrics (Webpage)
• Integrating Outcomes to Quizzes (PDF)

IV. Transfer and Share Assessment Materials

Move outcomes, rubrics, quizzes, and related assessment materials between courses and instructors.

• Copy assessment materials from one course to another (webpage)
• Import assessment materials from another course (webpage)
• Share assessment materials with another instructor (webpage)