 Scales allow you to evaluate or rate a learner's performance. To create a scale, navigate to the Site Administration menu. Select Grades. Select Scales. Select Add a New Scale. Give your scale a name. Administrators can create scales that are available site-wide, and editing trainers are able to create core specific scales. To make your scale available site-wide, ensure Standard Scale is selected. In the Scale box, create your scale. Each item in the scale should be separated by a comma. You can use as many options as required. Enter in the values from the lowest or negative result to the highest or positive result. Add a description if you wish to do so. Once you are happy with the settings you have selected, select Save Changes. Now that we have built our scale, we can now set up our outcomes. Outcomes describe what a student has demonstrated or understood at the completion of an activity or course. Each outcome is rated by a scale. To build an outcome, you must first enable outcomes at the site level. Navigate to the Site Administration menu. Select Advanced Features. Tick the Enable Outcomes checkbox. Select Save Changes. Outcomes is now enabled. We can now begin building our outcome. You can build both course level and standard outcomes, depending on what you require. For this example, let's build a course level outcome. Navigate to the course you wish to build an outcome within. Navigate to the course administration menu. Select Outcomes. Select Edit Outcomes. Select Add a new outcome. Name your outcome. List the outcome short name. If you would like this outcome to appear elsewhere within the site, select Standard Outcome. If you just want your outcome to remain within the course, leave this box unchecked. Select the scale you would like to apply to this outcome. I'm going to select the scale we have just built, Pass Fail. Add a description if you wish to do so. If you are happy with your settings, select Save Changes. The outcome now appears under the Custom Outcomes. Let's do a quick demonstration of how you can apply an outcome to a course activity. Navigate to your course. Select Turn Editing On. For the purposes of this demonstration, I'll build an assignment activity using the outcome we have just created. Select Add an Activity or Resource. Select Assignment. Select Add. Give your assignment a name. Add a description as required. Add any required files. Select the dates you wish to allow submissions from, the assignment due date, and cutoff date. Select whether you wish to allow online text or file submissions. If you wish to place a limit on the maximum number of words or uploaded files, you can do so here. Open the Outcomes drop-down menu. Select the outcome we have just created. Once you're happy with the settings you have made, select Save and Return to Course. The outcome is now associated with that piece of assessment. To see what this looks like from a student perspective, let's switch roles to a learner. We're now viewing the course as a learner. Select OHS Assignment. Select Add your submission. Add any required files. Upload this file. Select Save Changes. Now let's switch to an editing trainer role. You can see that the trainer now has the option to view and grade submissions. Select View All Submissions. Select Grade. The trainer has the option to assign a grade and an outcome. From the drop-down menu, we can select from our scale. Once the trainer is ready to finish grading the assignment, select Save Changes.