Trouble with course created outcomes not appearing for linking to individual items in Item Banks

[smoore5]

My institution provided outcomes are all set to assess based on highest score and I want to use decaying average. I created outcomes at the course level using decaying average, but when I try to align an individual item with my outcome, it only allows me to choose from the institution level outcomes. The institution level outcomes do not appear in the Outcomes tab of my course, only my course level created ones. I can add the course level created outcome to an entire quiz, but then my outcome mastery report doesn't show that the outcome is aligned to anything. I'm wanting to utilize the learning mastery gradebook for moving to standards based grading, but this is a major impediment that I want to find a solution to. Any tips or advice/suggestions are appreciated.

[bbennett2 · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you're trying to do this in New Quizzes, which still has major issues working with Outcomes. As of now (June 2023), New Quizzes can only see institution outcomes, not course outcomes. 

Since they're created at the institution level, they need to be imported into your specific course before they can be used on rubrics or other items. In your Outcomes tab, click on Find and then browse the folders to find your specific items. You can import entire folders or individual Outcomes.

Since you mention standards-based grading specifically, here's how we manage them in our district.

[smoore5]

Thank you so much for sharing that document with me! I am moving to a virtual high school next year and I am very interested on moving to standards based grading.

I actually figured out how to do what I wanted to do in my original post. I use getMarked  to take questions from Schoolnet (that I organize by objective and Webb's DOK level) and convert them to the Canvas format. The issue is that once you put an item in a item bank, you can't align it to a course level Outcome, only to an institution level one. So the work flow that I discovered does what I want it to do is to create a Quiz in New Quizzes, upload the question file, then edit each question to add the course level Outcome and add it to an item bank. Then in the item bank, I edit the question again to add a tag for each DOK level.