May 2023

Awards

Instructors can now specify what a learner must do to achieve a particular award. This feature complements the use of evidence for awards by adding the new required Criteria field to the Awards tool.

Availability of Criteria and Evidence fields meets the latest Open Badges 2.0 standard from 1EdTech (formerly known as IMS Global):

• When instructors manually grant awards, they can now check the award's criteria and enter evidence describing what the learner did to meet the criteria and earn the award.
• When the award is automatically issued, the release conditions determine if learners meet the criteria.
• If learners share their award via a public link, both the Criteria and Evidence fields now appear on the Public Award page.

Learning Outcomes

To evaluate learners' achievements related to learning outcomes, this new feature introduces the selection of the appropriate achievement scales within a course offering. Instructors can check the currently selected achievement scale information on the Outcomes in this Course page and use the Edit Settings button to choose an alternative achievement scale for the course if desired.

Instructors can select an alternative achievement scale for a course until assessment evaluation begins. The selected achievement scale applies to all outcome evaluations completed in the course. It is used to determine the suggested level of achievement for both individual activity evaluations and the overall suggested level of achievement in the Mastery View tab of Grades.

With this release, the Mastery View tab in Grades is improved to provide better load times for courses with large numbers of learners and aligned learning outcomes. Now instructors can use an activity counter that provides a summary of the outcome information.

The aligned activity counter shows the number of evaluated assessments for each learner over the total number of assessments aligned to that outcome in the corner of each table cell.