Working with outcomes

Version: Kora Courses, April 14, 2023  or later
Permissions required: Administrator

• Outcomes can be defined at multiple levels: system-wide, course, assignment, and/or submission.
• Each outcome belongs to an outcome collection.
  
• Outcomes can have one or more rubrics associated with them.
  
• Administrators can work with outcomes in the following ways: 
• Create - Administrators can create both course-level outcomes and institutional/program-level outcomes.
• Search - Administrators can search for outcomes from any source either course based or institutional/program-level.
• Import - They can import course-based outcomes as well as institutional/program-level outcomes.
• View - They can access and view any of the outcomes.
• Edit - They can edit any outcome whether course-based or institutional/program-based.
• Delete - They can delete any outcome.

Create outcome

• Click “Outcome & Rubrics” (1).
• Select “Outcome Collections” (2).
• Select an outcome collection (3).
  
  

• Click “Add” (5).

• Enter an outcome name (6), outcome number (optional) (7), and description (optional) (8).
• Click “Save” (9).
  
  
  

Search outcomes

• In “Outcomes,” enter an outcome name or keywords (1).
• Matching outcomes will be listed (2).
  
  
  

Import outcomes

• Click “Outcome & Rubrics” (1).
• Click “Outcome Collections” (2). 
• Click “Import from Digication Library” (3).
  
  
  
• Select one or more outcome collections to import (4).
• Click “Import” (5).
  
  
  
• The outcome collection (6), outcomes (7), and associated rubrics will be imported into the system.
  
  
  
  
  

View outcomes

• You can view outcomes through “Outcomes” and “Outcome Collections”.

View through “Outcomes”

• Click “Outcome & Rubrics” (1).
• Click “Outcomes” (2). 

• You can search for the outcome by name or keyword (3).
  
• Locate the outcome in the list (4).
• You can set an outcome as active or inactive (5).

• Expand (6) to view additional outcome information (7).
  
  
  

View through “Outcome Collections”

• Click “Outcome & Rubrics” (8).
• Click “Outcome Collections” (9).
  
  
• You can search for the outcome collection by name or keyword (10).
• Click an outcome collection (11).
  
  
• You can search for an outcome by name or keyword (12).
• Locate the outcome in the list (13).
• You can set an outcome as active or inactive (14).
  
  
  
• Expand (15) to view additional outcome information (16). 
  
  
  

Edit outcomes

• Click “Edit” in the outcome list (17) or with the outcome expanded (18).
  
  
  
• Edit the outcome name,  number, or description (19) and click  “Save” (20).
  
  
  

Delete outcome

• Click “Delete” in the outcome list (21) or “Remove” in the expanded outcome (22).

• Confirm the deletion (23).