How can outcome results be submitted or updated?

[gtaylor]

Short story:

I'm building a tool for entry and reporting of course outcomes.

I can do:

• Create/import outcomes for all courses.
• Get the results
• Write to database
• Build a report

I can't do:(Don't know how to do).

• Submit/update results to an outcome for a student. (via api or LTI)
• Create rubrics via API LTI.

I could use the submission API, but it requires a rubric with the outcomes aligned to it, and I can't create a rubric.(Rubric API is limited)

I could build a one question question bank, build a quiz with that bank,  use the quiz submission API, to enter the data.  Nope, no Api to link an outcome to a bank.

Longer Story:

We have enough faculty adoption to start using Canvas to collect data on student outcomes for internal course improvement and accreditation reporting.  The challenge so far has been a data entry process for faculty to use.

Canvas supports Rubrics or Question groups.   Which works for a lot of cases, but not all and there is not a good way to collect supplemental data.

Learning Mastery Gradebook is a good tool but it does not give faculty a comparison to their peers.

This looks seemed like an excellent job for an LTI tool.

A course level LTI tool has easy access to the students, outcome results, faculty.

A report could be built to compare results from previous semester/peer courses.

(Something to share comments between faculty) probably in person meetings. maybe?(there are a few good Instcon presentations on this as well).  If I find my notes I'll link them later.

I went over the last 3 years of video seeing what other collages are using for outcomes.

I just can't find a way to update scores for an outcome.

Besides faculty created rubrics or questions banks.

[stuart_ryan]

Hi gtaylor,

I wanted to check in and see how you were progressing with this? It seems your question has somewhat stumped the community.

Were you able to find out how to achieve this, or you are still looking into how you might get it done?

Cheers,
Stuart

[gtaylor]

No, At this point I am waiting for improvements on the API.

In the mean time, We are focusing on faculty creating rubrics and embedding outcomes into those, which works great for purely online faculty, Less so for those who receiving paper submissions.

[stuart_ryan]

Hi gtaylor,

Thank you for that and good to know. Are there existing feature ideas for the changes you need? Certainly happy to give you my vote if you can link me to them.

Cheers,
Stuart

[Boekenoogen]

This would be an interesting project to collaborate on... 

[gtaylor]

I'm tempted to take that as an offer.

Other colleges doing work with outcomes.

Verifying student learning with Outcomes - YouTube   (2015)

InstCon16 | Outcomes and Accreditation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - YouTube   (2016)

High Power Assessment: Using Outcomes in Canvas - Brian Bennett - YouTube  (2017)

 @jrboek ‌

What are your goals with outcomes?

[Boekenoogen]

 Ultimately, University of Oklahoma and the College of Professional and Continuing Studies for I work for, would like to be able to take the outcomes for each course, use the integration that Canvas has developed, and then be able to generate a report that we could then statistically prove that the courses we have developed and how we are assessing them and are showing students are retaining the information and mastering their degree.