What are the different settings at the learning path level

What are the different settings at the learning path level

When you create a learning path, several settings - such as content review and mastery/grading rules - are automatically inherited from the course settings. You can customize most of these at the learning path level. 

General
  1. Title: The name of the learning path. 
  2. Description: A short explanation of what the learning path covers. 
  3. Preview Settings: Enable or disable Faculty Preview, which allows faculty to preview the learning path as a student. 

  4. Student Interaction:
    1. Avg. Time - Show or Hide: Controls whether students can see the average sitting time for each concept. This value is set when the concept is created. 
    2. Concept Review: Determines what students can review after completing items (questions, results, feedback). 
      1. Default: Students can review questions, results, and feedback. 
      2. These settings are inherited from the course but can be changed here. 
    3. Item Feedback: Control whether students receive feedback for correct and incorrect answers. 
      1. Default: Feedback is shown for both. 
      2. Inherited from the course but customizable at the learning path level. 
To learn more about how to adjust the settings for a learning path, click here. 

Learning Progression
  1. Pacing: Choose how students move through the learning path.
    1. Self-Paced (default): Students progress by completing units.
    2. Fixed-Pace: Students must complete units and meet due dates unless a unit is un-gated. 
  2. Gating & Days Due: Set due dates and control which units are gated. 
    1. When pacing is Fixed-Pace, all units are gated by default. 
    2. You can adjust days due and un-gate units as needed. 

Mastery & Grading
  1. Mastery: Set the required percentage a student must achieve to demonstrate mastery for each concept. 
  2. Scoring: Choose how scores are calculated. 
    1. Straight Average
    2. Weighted Average: requires entering weights for each type - self-check, pre-assessment, post-assessment, and summative. 
  3. Grading: Define the grading level (unit or concept) and whether grades include all learning workflow steps or only the gradable steps. 
Diagnostics
  1. Initial Learning Path Diagnostic (Optional): Students can master concepts via a diagnostic without needing to progress through the learning path. 
    1. To enable an initial diagnostic, you'll need to define:
      1. Item type
      2. Bloom's taxonomy level 
      3. Number of questions per concept 
    2. If a unit-level initial diagnostic is enabled, the learning path level initial diagnostic cannot be used. 
  2. End of Learning Path Diagnostic (Optional): 
    1. To enable an end of learning path diagnostic, you'll need to define:
      1. Item type
      2. Bloom's taxonomy level
      3. Number of questions per concept
To learn more about how initial diagnostics work, click here.


Note: These settings are frozen when an LTI connection is established. 

To learn more about Mastery and Grading, read these articles:
What is the difference between mastery and grading?
How does mastery and grading work in Learning Mode?
How does mastery and grading work in Diagnostic Mode?
How to define and set up Item Type Weights for Mastery
How is mastery target set up and tracked?

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