[ARCHIVED] Account-level outcomes using score range?

[adondanville]

Hi.

Has anyone figured out how to create account-level outcomes that use score ranges to make marking guides?  You can create rubrics at the course-level that use score ranges (essentially a marking guide), but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to create account-level outcomes to pull into these marking guides.  We want to be able to download the outcome data across the department, versus each instructor adding the guide at the course level and then downloading the mastery gradebook data.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Abbey

image showing the point range option when creating a rubric at the course level...

[kmeeusen · Accepted solution]

Hi @adondanville 

This can be done.

• First, create your outcomes at the account level: How do I create an outcome for an account?
• Create a rubric at the account level with the appropriate rating levels. How do I add a Rubric to an account?
• Embed the account-level outcome in the Rubric. How do I align an outcome with a Rubric in an account?

Instructors can add account-level rubrics to their assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes.

Once you have done this once, you will want to do it again for more departments, and eventually all of them that want to play along. This is where problems can develop. You need to be very careful and deliberate in setting up your outcome structure at the account level. Create folders for each department/school/etc., then add the appropriate outcomes to each folder. This will make it much easier for both your faculty and yourself to find and manage the outcomes later. Your will want to do the same for any rubrics you create.

I hope this is helpful,

Kelley

[chaldeat]

The problem I see with this is that you cannot set up ranges on account level outcomes.  It isn't an option for the outcome as far as I can tell. 

This is a huge issue on a particular rubric that our Education department needs.  Each of the outcomes have unique ranges on the ratings scales, but there is no option to designate range scores.

Any other suggestions?  Can Canvas add this to the outcome tool?

[greg_dabelstein]

I agree. I can’t see any way to do it. Is there something I am missing as well? I can’t see any way to use outcomes if you have a range of scores per achievement level in a criterion. 

[chaldeat]

It's interesting that this is not an option for outcomes, but it is in a course level rubric.  I've been given several suggestions, but they all seem clunky workarounds and each have their own aggravations.

You can set up fixed ratings with no range, but provide the range in the title or description. When scoring in SpeedGrader, you would enter a numeric value for each outcome in the rubric, rather than clicking on the rating in the table; however, because the outcome isn't set up as a range score. Even if you select a cell in the table, it "deselects" when you enter a number for the score.  This is problematic if you desire the actual box on the rubric to be highlighted to identify the score range. 

It is also problematic when exporting the results; for me the text title doesn't always appear in the data and is sometimes there but not the correct rating scale title (e.g. numeric score indicates Acceptable, title for the score indicates Needs Improvement - this happens frequently in my tests.)

One suggestion was to double up the outcomes with a duplicates in the rubric (but the copy of each is set as a course level range score).  So, for every program level outcomes, there is a rubric criterion that allows a range score.  Faculty would score the program level using the first account outcome by selecting the rating only, no numeric value.  They would then score the second criterion using the range scores.  I'm not sure if that makes sense.  And honestly, I don't care for this solution.  It's repetitive and no doubt an aggravation for faculty to have to score every outcome twice.

Another solution is setting up the rubric with the outcomes (with specific scores), entering score values in the criterion comment line for the student.  Include a total assignment score as a rubric criterion (this can be set up as a range) - this will be scored and used as the grade for the assignment.  Not exactly ideal, but it works and is much cleaner and less work for the faculty.

One thought - your set up needs to agree with how you want the data to appear in your outcome report.  If you need numeric scores, then this really isn't ideal.  If your report can depend on the rating scale title (e.g. Exemplary, Satisfactory, etc.), then both ways will work.

I would love to see ranges added to account level outcomes because I'm seeing it come up frequently.