Use Learning Goals in Classroom

Learning goals in Google Classroom help you define and track what your students learn. These goals monitor student progress and help you align your lessons with educational requirements.

Understand learning goals

Learning goals help you define and measure student achievement. In Classroom, there are two types of learning goals:

• Learning skills:These are Google’s student friendly learning goals based on standards and education resources. Skills are specific, actionable targets that mark progress within a unit or topic. For example, "Identify main ideas in a text" or "Solve two-step equations."
• Learning standards:These are official expectations set by your region, state, or educational institution. They outline the required knowledge and skills students should master at various grade levels.

Configure learning standards

Important: This feature may not be available in all regions or languages. You need a Google Workspace edition to access this feature.

If you want to track learning standards, you must first select learning standard sets (groups of learning standards) for your class. You do not need to do this step if you only plan to use learning skills.

1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com and click the class you want to manage.
2. Click Class settings.
3. Under "Learning goals," click Select standard sets.
4. Browse for learning standard sets. Select up to 5 for your class.
5. Click Save.

Tip:If you do not see your required learning standards, ask your school administrator or instructional leader for help. Administrators must work with Google's partners to get new standard sets added to Classroom . You can also let Google know which standard sets you need by filling out the Report missing standards form.

To report an issue with a standard's format, hover over the standard nameclick Report issue.

Tag classwork

You can tag your classwork with up to 10 relevant learning goals to track student progress.

1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com and click the class you want to manage.
2. Click Classwork Create Assignment, Quiz assignment, Questionor Material. Create your classwork.
3. In the classwork window, click Tag learning goals.
4. Choose whether to tag with your configured Standards or available Skills.
5. Select the learning goals you want to attach, or manually review and select from the suggested goals to apply them to your classwork.
6. Click the desired learning goals and click Confirm. Then finish creating your assignment and click Assign.

Tips:

• Suggested learning goals use AI to analyze your assignment and course content. Suggestions may not be accurate. Suggested standards are only available if your Classroom language is set to English.
• If you want to stop getting learning goal suggestions in your course, click Hide suggestions.

Access student learning goal performance

You can review how your students are performing against specific learning goals in the Grades tab.

1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
2. Click the class you want to review.
3. Click Grades.
4. At the top, click the Learning goalstoggle.
5. You can choose between 2 views to assess student performance:
   1. Whole class multi-goal view:This view shows an overview of the entire class's progress across all selected learning goals.
      1. Check performance trends:Hover over the trend arrows (Up or Down) next to a student's goal score to see exactly how their most recently graded classwork affected that score.
      2. Sort the table:To spot class-wide trends, click the sort dropdown in the top-left (this defaults to "Last name") and sort your student roster by highest or lowest Overall grade.
   2. Single goal view:To focus on one specific learning goal, click a goal title at the top of the table. This shows how each student performs against that particular goal across all of their tagged classwork.
      1. Check performance trends:Hover over the trend arrows (Up or Down) to see how the most recent assignment impacted the student's trajectory for this specific goal.
      2. Sort the table:Click the sort dropdown to organize students by their highest or lowest Goal score, making it easy to identify which students might need extra support with this skill or standard.
      3. Review rubric breakdowns:If a classwork item was graded using a rubric, hover over the info icon in the student's cell to see a popup breakdown of the rubric. This shows exactly which rubric criteria were used to calculate their learning goal score.

How Classroom calculates learning goal scores

Classroom calculates a student's learning goal score by dividing their earned points by the total possible points across all graded classwork tagged with that learning goal.

• Standard grading:The score uses the student's overall grade for the classwork.
• Rubric grading:If you link a learning goal to a specific rubric criterion, the score uses only the points earned for that specific criterion, rather than the overall assignment grade.

You can review the examples below to see how standard grading and rubric grading affect a student's goal score:**

Example 1: Standard Grading (Multiple assignments)

When you do not use a rubric, Classroom uses the student's overall grade on the classwork to calculate the learning goal score.

• Assignment 1:A student scores 50/100 points.
• Assignment 2:The student scores 90/100 points.

Calculation:Classroom adds the total earned points (140) and divides it by the total possible points (200). The student's overall learning goal score is 70%.

Example 2: Rubric Grading (Scaling criterion scores)

If you link a learning goal to a rubric criterion, Classroom isolates the score from that specific criterion instead of using the overall assignment grade.

• Equal scales:If an assignment is worth the same number of points as the rubric, no conversion is needed. For example, if an assignment and rubric are both worth 16 points and the student scores 9/10 points for Goal A and 5/6 points for Goal B, the earned point values count directly toward the learning goal scores.
• Different scales:If the rubric and the assignment point values differ, Classroom automatically scales the rubric math to match. For instance, if an assignment is worth 100 points, but a student scores a 5/6 on the rubric criterion tagged to Goal A and 2/4 on the rubric criterion tagged to Goal B, Classroom scales the criterion score for Goal A to 50/60 and Goal B to 20/40 to accurately weigh the goal within your 100-point grade book scale.