In this chapter, we learnt how to apply Outcomes to help track user competencies in Moodle. We looked at two case studies, the National Health Institute of Italy and the Gulf Agency Company and their use of Moodle in managing on-going professional development.
Specifically, we covered the following:
You need to select the scale when creating the Outcome. Therefore, when considering Outcomes, you need to think about the scales that you want to measure the Outcomes with.
Although you can go back and add Outcomes one at a time, it is more practical to build a CSV spreadsheet and import the Outcomes in bulk.
It is important to align the objectives and Outcomes with the course as the Outcomes are only available to activities when they have been added to the course first.
It is possible to add a course level Outcome which is not available throughout the site. However, this is not always a wise thing to do. The risk is that someone else may create the same Outcome in another course and they...