Add Learning Outcomes to your course in D2L Brightspace

Overview

Use the Learning Outcomes tool to help you assess students’ learning outcomes and determine if they have acquired the intended knowledge, skills, and abilities from a learning experience. Learning Outcomes help track information about the knowledge, skills and abilities students acquire as they participate in courses or other learning experiences. 

Overall, there are four main actions to using Learning Outcomes in D2L Brightspace: 

1. In your course, add course outcomes and/or add program and institution outcomes from the Learning Outcomes tool page. 
2. Align outcomes to learning activities in discussions, assignments, questions in a quiz, and rubrics.
3. Assess using an outcome in an assignment, discussion, questions in a quiz attempt, and rubrics (in those learning activities). 
4. Navigate to the Mastery View to review student overall outcome achievement and adjust the Mastery View settings. 

Course Outcomes

To add your course outcomes, you would enter them manually or import them from a formatted csv file. In some cases, your course may be pre-populated with your course outcomes. Check with your Brightspace Campus Site Admin to learn more!

Add course outcomes by manually entering them

1. From the course navigation bar, select Course Tools > Course Admin.
2. Select Learning Outcomes. (Note: If you do not have this option, learn more about why the Learning Outcomes tool is not available in the course.)
3. Under the My Learning Outcomes section, select Add Outcome. 
   
4. In the Short Code, enter a unique code for the outcome. For example, enter Match 101 01 for the first outcome (01) in your course, Math 101. 
5. Enter the outcome in the Outcome field, and select Save. 
6. Note: The outcome will be listed under the 'My Learning Outcomes' section. 
7. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for the other course outcomes. 

Import course outcomes from the csv file

1. From the course navigation bar, select Course Tools > Course Admin.
2. Select Learning Outcomes. (Note: If you do not have this option, learn more about why the Learning Outcomes tool is not available in the course.)
3. From the Import menu, select Import from File.
   
4. Select Select a CSV file to import and upload the formatted file. 
   
5. After it’s uploaded, select Import.
   

Add program or institution outcomes

To add outcomes from your program or institution, use the Import from Outcome Set option. In some cases, your course may be pre-populated with your program and institution outcomes. Check with your Brightspace Campus Site Admin to learn more!

1. From the course navigation bar, select Course Tools > Course Admin.
2. Select Learning Outcomes. (Note: If you do not have this option, learn more about why the Learning Outcomes tool is not available in the course.)
3. Do one of the following:
   • If you have already added outcomes to your course, select Import from Outcome Set. 
     
   • If you have not added any outcomes to your course, select Import from Outcome Set from the Import menu. 
     
4. Select the program from the Outcome Set menu.
5. Select the check box next to the outcomes you want to add to your course.
6. Select Import Select Outcomes.
   
7. Now, you can align outcomes to learning activities in your course discussions, assignments, quizzes, and rubrics.