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As we have discussed throughout Section 3.1, SLOs play a very significant role in the future prospects of the students and graduates. There are practices in SLOs and in their attainment that can be seen in the accreditation documents of most universities where the record of mapping between the student learning objectives and their learning outcomes is highlighted with the help of several examples from various programs and departments. However, the important thing in all the practices that are reported is the actual impact of mapping and the pragmatic approaches used in developing SLOs in the students. The activities that directly or indirectly impact the SLOs of the students are broadly:

1 Curricular: This includes academic activities mainly related to various components of the courses offered in the program, such as tests, assignments, examinations, and other direct assessment.

2 Co‐curricular: The activities which are associated with various courses as supportive components such as seminars, group discussions, project based events etc.

3 Extracurricular: This is completely beyond curriculum and plays very important role in developing a set of skills in students, namely sports, various competitions etc. Case studies and survey on certain relevant topics also enable the students for developing unique qualities through these extra‐curricular activities.

These activities are not uncommon and can be seen being practiced everywhere, but the ways in which they are carried out or performed actually determine the SLOs in the students. For the approaches that can be truly assessed through direct or indirect feedback or mechanisms it can be claimed that the outcome in the students through such activities has been truly inculcated. So, mapping that reflects the change in students is of great importance whether this has been part of assessment of the activities, academic, research, co‐curricular, etc. Let us look at some pragmatic approaches that were used while assessing the SLO in the students, with the help of the delivery and assessment of two courses – Signals and Systems (ECE 3X20) and Image Processing (CSE 5X08). These two courses are among the many that were delivered by Sinha (one of the authors of this paper), and they are briefly discussed here to show a few of the pragmatics and unique methods of evaluating SLOs.