In Practice: Alignment of Objectives

From the Rubric

• Incomplete: Learning unit content is not aligned with or sufficient to meet unit objectives. 

• Aligned: Content is clearly aligned with and sufficient to meet the learning unit objectives. 

• Exemplary: The connections between content and learning unit objectives are made explicitly clear to the students 

How to Implement

Be sure that the content (Canvas pages, textbook resources, videos, images, etc.) provided in a module supports the students' achievement of that module's objectives. A3 and C2 are related in that they both deal with aligning to the objective.

• Criterion A3: Alignment of content to learning objective

• Criterion C2: Alignment of assessment to learning objective

Extraneous and unrelated content can confuse, distract and prevent students from achieving the learning objective. Be sure that the materials you include in a module support students towards reaching the objectives. 

Additional Resources

• @ONE Byte-sized Canvas Video: Uh-oh Your Cognitive Overload is Showing