Teaching with Moodle

I'm also keen on Outcomes and their potential. As things stand right now, I've managed a workflow in which each row in Assignment rubrics (Advanced Grading, you know) represents one of our departmental outcomes. So a rubric on, say, argumentative writing has the five outcomes of that Writing Standard each in one of five rows.

Outcomes are also added to the assignment.

So when I mark the rubric, the outcomes below it in the assignment are easy to rate on our 4-3-2-1 scale ("exemplary" to "does not meet standard") because Rubric Row 1 is Standard 1, and so forth to Row and Standard 5.

I hope the Gradebook overhaul coming next month allows a more user-friendly way of grouping outcomes in the outcomes report and the gradebook. Right now, I've made a Category called "Standards," weighted it 0%, and individually arranged each assessed outcome earliest to latest in sub-categories (Argumentative Writing, Research Skills, Formal Speeches, etc). That takes way too much clicking, but the results are beautifully informative: I see, outcome by outcome, each student's progress across several formative and summative assessments.

I'm hoping such arrangements will be possible by default--the current "outcomes after assignment" default in gradebook is not helpful at all for at-a-glance data analysis of outcomes. If it's not, I'll be trying to persuade my school to pay for a customized Moodle Gradebook (or third-party gradebook) that does, by default, put outcomes together in an Outcomes category, earliest to latest.

Finally, the added value of Outcomes based rubrics is the "Export Rubric Scores" function in Admin> Assignment > Export Rubric Scores" This gives a sortable spreadsheet of all students, by outcome, for Response to Intervention/Differentiation [your buzzword here] purposes. Our teachers are currently having to slave away at data entry to put outcome scores into spreadsheets, by outcome and by student, as if the idea of educational technology working for us, instead of us working on it, had never occurred to our regime. (We're a Google School. Use Google Docs for rubrics, and Google Spreadsheets for data analysis, and enjoy doing all that work for Google--instead of letting Moodle do it for you in a click.

This 4-minute video might help:

And screenshots might clarify

Outcomes-based rubric followed by Outcomes for assignment--ease of entry:

Note "Conventions" in Rubric is also Outcome E in outcomes. They go in order, top to bottom, on both rubric and outcomes. Easy. (Also note rubric scores essay with differentially weighted cells for Letter Grade or Points.)

Gradebook View, Top--Outcomes manually placed in own category, and manually placed earlier to later per outcome:

Top view:

Bottom view: (I like the averages per assessment for the whole class.)

Rubric-Outcomes-Export Scores flow

Exported Outcomes Spreadsheet

Student Outcomes Report (but manually arranged--unfortunate--needs an option for this to be default).

hth. Following this thread in hopes to learn some best practices and future gradebook changes.