Competency Based Education
Goal alignment to Journals – 3900.86
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Impact: Instructors
Institutions want to align goals to course content. Goal alignment ensures that the curriculum is designed to meet specific learning outcomes.
Instructors can now align goals to journals to ensure that the activity measures the desired learning outcomes. This helps to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of evaluation and feedback practices.
Instructors can also align goals to the following course items:
- Assignments
- Tests, including individual questions
- Questions in banks
- Discussions
- Rubrics criterion
- Files
- Web links
- Teaching tools with LTI connection
- Documents
Image 1. Instructor view of the “Align with goal’ menu option used to align a journal to a goal
For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.