Learning Outcomes
ANGEL Learning Outcomes Management (LOM) gives you insight into student performance against standards, confidence that course content is aligned to standards and shows you what is working (and what is not working) so you can take action.Standards are statements of what students should know and be able to do. Standards are organized hierarchically and can be mapped to content within ANGEL. These mappings allow extensive reporting on student and course performance against standards. Standards may be created and sanctioned at the institutional level.
Standards are mapped to content and assessment items in ANGEL. Mapping allows the reporting required for Learning Outcomes Management.
Objectives are similar to standards except objectives are created and managed by the instructor within a course.
- Objectives allow instructors to design educational outcomes that best fit that course’s curriculum.
- Instructors can use objectives in conjunction with standards to create desired outcomes without being constrained by the hierarchical structure of the standard.
- Objectives can be mapped to one or multiple standards.
Content mapped to standards or objectives allows for exactly the same LOM reporting in cases where formal standards do not exist or in cases where more flexible outcomes management is desired. Additionally, if objectives are mapped to standards, any content items mapped to that objective inherit all the standards related to that objective.
Mapping is performed via the Standards and Objectives tabs added to every content item. Each tab contains three sub-tabs:
- Browse Standards: The user can browse all available standards/objectives, or only those in use in the specified course, and select which standard(s) to map to that content item.
- Search Standards: The user can search all available standards or only those in use in the specified course.
- Mapped Standards: Quick, flat view of all standards mapped to that content item.
Standards and objectives are enabled from the Manage tab of your ANGEL course.
