Releases Q&A: 2022-03-19 Improved Outcomes Management Individual Outcome Rating and Calculations Method Options

[AlliFoote]

Looking to discuss this feature from the 2022-03-19 Release Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation!

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[snugent]

I'm confused about this feature. I don't see it listed in the feature options in our beta instance. We already have improved outcomes enabled. Do we need to contact our account manage to enable this option beta or is it not available in beta? 

[atcarver]

We have the same question and are not finding this functionality by the listed name.

[BenFriedman]

@snugent & @atcarver Apologies for the confusion. Improved Outcome Management currently also requires another flag to be enabled in order to display within Canvas. These are either the Account and Course Level Mastery Scales flag, which provides a consistent set of mastery levels to be used across a context, or this new feature, Individual Outcome Rating and Calculation Method Options, which provides the capability to control mastery levels for individual outcomes. Once this has been released to production, we will also be simplifying the flag situation so that enabling multiple flags will not be necessary. The Improved Outcomes Management Individual Outcome Rating and Calculations Method Options flag is hidden, so you will need the support of your CSM to enable it. 

[leward]

Hi @BenFriedman .  According to the release notes, this feature has been released to production, but none of the Outcomes-related feature flags are evident in production.  Is it still necessary to have our CSM enable this feature, and if so, why isn't this mentioned in the release notes?  Also, when Improved Outcomes Management is enabled, the ability to click on an outcome name to see all of the alignments and scores in the account seems to be unavailable.  Was this intentional?

Lynn

[BenFriedman]

Hi @leward - yes, you will need to work with your CSM to turn on this feature. We will add a note about this on the release notes.

We're continuing to develop Improved Outcome Management and are in the discovery and design process for providing a more efficient way of tracking outcome alignments. We've been collecting customer input on this and I'd be happy to review it with you! Send me a DM if you are interested.