Canvas Outcomes & SLO Assessment
Peer support for the implementation and use of Canvas Outcomes: a Community of Practice where members learn by doing, together.
This Community of Practice exists because implementing Canvas Outcomes is easier with company. Members meet monthly in working groups to get their hands dirty with the real work: setting up outcomes, building rubrics, making sense of the data, and bringing faculty along.
The format is discussion, not instruction. No one in the groups is positioned as the expert, and meetings are not run as workshops. Participants identify shared interests, work in small groups, learn by doing, and share what they find with everyone else. From an initial working group, the community has grown to more than 75 members from two-year and four-year institutions across the country.
Whether you are just getting started with Canvas Outcomes or have years of experience, you are invited. Members can join one or both work groups and receive invitations and materials from both.
Work groups
Each work group meets once per month on Mondays, 11am to 12pm Pacific.
Making Sense of the Data & Using and Creating Dashboards
Co-led by Dr. Jacqueline Randa, Dr. Yolanda Hardy, and Carlos Alvarez.
Canvas Outcomes Set-up & Working with Faculty
Co-led by Dr. Bernice Houle and Sarah Chitwood.
Recordings & materials
Demonstrations and presentations shared by community members.
Canvas Outcomes & SLO Assessment Subgroup Presentation
Members from two-year and four-year institutions demonstrate Canvas set-up for SLO assessment and a Power BI data dashboard.
Watch on YouTube →Building a Culture of Inquiry at Long Beach City College
Trisha Wilging demonstrates a separate assessment shell approach in Canvas and Tableau dashboards built with the IR office.
Watch on YouTube →Embedding Assessment Staff Within a School or College
Carlos Alvarez and Christina Chatman of the University of Texas at Tyler on decentralized assessment and Canvas Outcomes implementation.
Watch on YouTube →Bulk Upload of Student Learning Outcomes in Canvas
Dr. Stephen Riley, University of Denver, demonstrates a bulk upload process that reduces manual work when importing SLOs.
Watch on YouTube →Learning Mastery Gradebook Demonstration
Dr. Glenn Pillsbury, Instructional Designer and Canvas Administrator at California State University, Stanislaus.
Watch on YouTube →Making Sense of the Data & Using and Building Dashboards
Presentation by Carlos Alvarez, University of Texas at Tyler.
Watch on YouTube →Steering committee
Join the Community of Practice
To be added to one or both work groups, submit your information and you will receive the monthly meeting invitations and materials.