Now you have enabled Outcomes for your Moodle site. This is just the first step. Now we will need to add some Outcomes into the Moodle system so that they can be used in courses and in activities.

However, before we add an Outcome, let's add a custom scale suitable to our needs. For knowledge, we will select a simple proficiency scale of basic, proficient, and advanced. You could come up with many variations, but we will work with this.

As explained earlier, scales are used when grading Outcomes. They are a way of evaluating the learner's performance and by default they are usually numeric. However, it is possible to create custom scales, and that is what we will do now.

Scales can be used for grading an activity and also for rating purposes on some activities including Glossaries and Forums.