Some activities work well with Outcomes and some don't work at all with Outcomes—this is usually related to a design decision for the grading mechanisms of that activity. Some activities allow you to set an Outcome when creating or editing the activity. There are exceptions to this, for example, the Choice activity.

For most of the activities, you grade the Outcome(s) at the same time as grading the activity. However, this only works for modules that have inbuilt grading. For those of other activities, you would need to go into the gradebook to grade the Outcome for the activity.

The gradebook is a repository for all the grades attributed to a person in a course. When a grade is awarded on an activity, the activity pushes that grade into the gradebook. It is also possible to edit and award the grades directly in the gradebook. But enough about that for now.

The following table shows which activities can use Outcomes and where they need to be graded. If you plan to use any custom activities, you would need to check if they support Outcomes or not.