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What are outcomes on Makerble?

Makerble is designed to help you achieve your project’s ambitions
On Makerble you can turn your project’s ambitions into 5 stages of progress
Because those 5 stages of progress are measurable, you now have an easy way to see how well your project is doing at achieving its ambitions
Activity and Engagement are things that you can simply count. Those are called outputs
Potential, Behaviour and Success aren’t things that you can simply count. They need to be defined. So
1. firstly you should describe them a statement with a direction. Each of these statements is an outcome.
2. secondly, you should find something you can look at that shows you whether progress is happening or not. This is called an indicator (or a Progress Tracker).

Here’s an example

Let’s imagine that your project goal is to decrease obesity by changing people’s eating habits.
Your 5 stages of progress might look like this:

ACTIVITY	ENGAGEMENT	POTENTIAL	BEHAVIOUR	SUCCESS
Provide Healthy Cooking Classes	Get attendances at your cooking classes	Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal	Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week	Decrease an obese person’s weight

Stage of progress	What it looks like	How you measure it
ACTIVITY (activity output)	Provide Healthy Cooking Classes	Create an Activity Tracker called Healthy Cooking Classes Run
ENGAGEMENT (participation output)	Get attendances at your cooking classes	Create an Engagement Tracker called Attendances
POTENTIAL (short-term outcome)	Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal	Step 1. Create a Multiple Choice Tracker called “How would you rate your ability to cook a variety of meals that are healthy and tasty?” which has the Answer Choices Very Low Ability Low Ability No Idea Mid-level Ability High Ability Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal”
BEHAVIOUR (medium-term outcome)	Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week	Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “How many healthy meals did you cook last week?” Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal”
SUCCESS (long-term outcome)	Decrease an obese person’s weight	Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “What is your weight?” and assign the unit of Kilograms Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Decrease an obese person’s weight”

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You can create these 5 stages of progress on Makerble and add them to your project
Then you can start measuring progress at each stage on your project
- Measure Activity and Engagement
- Measure Potential
- Measure Behaviour
- Measure Success
So because you have defined your outcomes as statements and then added Progress Trackers to them, you can now see the change that’s happened over time.