Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes in Rumi help you connect each assignment to clear goals, give students targeted feedback, and see how your class is progressing over time.

In this article, we’ll look at how to:

• Set up rubrics for Learning Outcomes
• Assess student work using the rubric
• Leave comments with optional AI assistance
• Control when students see rubric feedback
• Use the Learning Outcomes dashboard to understand class performance

Setting up your rubric

To track learning outcomes, each assignment needs a rubric that defines the criteria and performance levels for students.

You can:

• Create a rubric manually
• Generate a rubric with AI
• Import an existing rubric from Canvas (for Canvas LMS users)

To learn more about creating rubrics, see Creating Rubrics

Once the rubric is set up, students will see a View Rubric button on the left panel of the Rumi assignment page. The rubric table will open side-by-side with the writing area so students can keep the assignment goals in mind while they work.

Students can:

• Click View Rubric to open or hide the rubric

• Click Expand to temporarily widen the rubric to full page for easier reading
• Collapse it again to return to writing

Assessing student work with the rubric

As an instructor, you can view each student’s submission next to the rubric to assess their work against each criterion.

To select a performance level for a criterion, you can either:

1. Click directly on the appropriate rubric cell, or
2. Use the dropdown in the last column to choose a level.

Each selection is saved automatically, and you’ll see a short confirmation so you know it’s been recorded.

Adding comments and using AI-assisted feedback

By default, the comment area for each criterion is collapsed to keep the rubric compact. To leave written feedback, click the comment icon to open the text box.

You have two options:

• Write feedback yourself directly in the text box
• Use AI-assisted feedback by clicking the AI-assisted feedback button

When you use AI-assisted feedback, Rumi generates a suggested comment based on the student’s work and the selected rubric level. You can:

• Edit the text to better match your voice
• Delete parts of the suggestion
• Combine AI-generated text with your own feedback

Comments that use AI support are marked with an AI-assisted tag that both you and the student can see. If you remove all AI-generated text and replace it entirely, the tag is removed.

When you’re satisfied with a comment, click Save. Unlike level selections, comments are not saved automatically.

You’ll also see a small badge on the View/Hide Rubric button:

• If you’ve left rubric comments, the badge shows the number of comments
• If you haven’t left comments but have selected levels, the badge shows how many criteria have been assessed

This badge is visible to both you and your students and gives a quick sense of how much feedback has been added.

Controlling when students see rubric feedback

You can decide whether students see rubric levels and comments immediately or only after you’re ready to release them.

In the assignment settings, under Feedback & Notifications → Rubric Feedback (Comments & Levels), you can choose:

• Show as I work (default)
  • Students see rubric levels and comments as soon as you save them.
• Manual release
  • Rubric levels and comments remain hidden until you explicitly release them.

If you select Manual release, a Release Rubric Feedback button appears. When you’re ready:

• Click Release Rubric Feedback to make all levels and comments visible to students at once.

• If needed, you can Unrelease Rubric Feedback, adjust comments or levels, and release again later.

You can also enable email notifications so students receive an email summarizing their rubric levels and comments when feedback is released.

How students see rubric feedback

Once rubric feedback is available to students (either as you work or after you manually release it), students can view it directly from their assignment.

When a student opens the assignment in Rumi:

• They see the View Rubric button on the left panel, with the same badge showing either the number of rubric comments or the number of criteria with an assessed level.
  

• When they click View Rubric, the rubric table opens next to their writing. For each criterion, the selected performance level is highlighted so students can quickly see how they did on each part of the assignment.
  

• If you left comments, they appear under the relevant criteria. When AI assistance was used to help generate the feedback, an AI-assisted tag is shown next to the comment so students know it was supported by AI.
  

Students can open and close the rubric while they review your feedback, just as they could while working on the assignment.

Using the Learning Outcomes dashboard

Once you start assessing students and saving rubric feedback, Rumi automatically builds a Learning Outcomes dashboard to help you understand how your class is doing and where to focus your teaching. You can access it from the Outcomes tab.

The dashboard includes four main sections.

Key Insights & Recommendations

Rumi uses AI to analyze your rubric levels and comments and groups the findings into four categories:

• Bright Spots – Areas where students are consistently strong
• Areas of Concern – Criteria where students are struggling
• High Variability – Criteria where performance varies widely across the class
• Unexpected Results – Patterns that stand out compared to the rest of the data

Based on these patterns, Rumi suggests concrete next steps you can take to close learning gaps and support student growth. This section requires feedback on at least three submitted assignments to generate insights.

Learning Outcomes overview

The overview section visualizes how the class is performing on each rubric criterion. You can see:

• How many students fall into each performance level
• The class average for each criterion

This provides a quick way to spot common strengths and shared challenges across the class.

Cohort Analysis

Cohort Analysis lets you zoom in on individual students and compare their performance to the class average for every criterion.

Use this view to answer questions like:

• In which specific skills is a student falling behind the cohort?
• Where is a student performing above the class average?

This makes it easier to plan targeted interventions.

Performance Heat Map

The Performance Heat Map gives you a compact, color-coded overview of how students are performing across all criteria. You can sort columns to quickly identify:

• Criteria where most students are performing well
• Criteria where performance is mixed or lower

If you want to revisit what you wrote for a particular student and criterion, hover over a cell to preview the comment and click Click to open to view the full feedback.

With Learning Outcomes, you can guide students toward clear goals, provide richer feedback aligned to your rubric, and use data to make more informed decisions about what to teach next.

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