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6.26. Rubrics
Using the Brightspace Rubric Tool
A rubric is a matrix of criteria and levels used to assess or evaluate student performance and mastery of objectives. Judging each criterion by the level of mastery provides improves instructor objectivity, and provides students the added benefit of knowing what is expected to achieve at a high level. It may also reduce the number of questions students have about their grades.
Getting Started
You may create discussions and assignments first and develop rubrics from those tools. You may also access the rubrics tool from Course Admin (may be located under More) on the Navbar. The Course Administration page will open. Choose Rubrics to continue.
The Rubrics page will open. If you have already created rubrics in your course, they will be listed on this page. Choose New Rubric to start a new rubric.
Steps to Create a Rubric
Name the rubric. Leave it in Draft status while you are developing it, but it will need to be Published before it can be linked to a tool. Additional columns and rows can be added as needed.
Choose the Rubric Type
- Holistic: Single criterion rubrics (one-dimensional) used to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on predefined achievement levels. Holistic rubrics may use a percentage or text only scoring method.
- Analytic is used when a rubric breaks performance into multiple criteria which are each assessed separately. For an Analytic rubric, set up the number of levels of performance (e.g. Excellent, Meets Expectations, Developing, Needs Improvement) and the number of criteria (e.g. Organization, Grammar, Introduction, Body, Conclusion).
Performance levels can be assigned Points but the performance level points will be the same for each criterion. With custom points, different point values can be set to the levels of each different criterion.
Customize
Customize the levels, criteria, and other details. Notice the new text editor tools highlighted. Name each Criterion Name and describe the details required to meet each criterion.
Copy or Delete Criterion
Activating the triple dot menu offers a choice to copy or delete a criterion.
Print or Save to PDF
You can print or save your rubric in 3 easy steps. From the Edit menu choose Preview.
A copy of the rubric will open. Choose Print Rubric. Your device may default to a printer or PDF. Choose the one you prefer.
Update the Status when it is time to post the rubric. Choose Save when finished.
Additional Resources
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Evaluating with Rubrics
Rubrics are embedded directly in the New Evaluation Experience for Assignments and Discussions. This means you can directly access the rubric and use the inline grading tools without leaving the work area. Many recent improvements have been added as well.
Inline Rubric component is now the default option for rubric design and use. Instead of always opening in another window or dialog, rubrics expand down the evaluation panel, allowing the evaluator to see both the rubric and the submission at the same time.
Inline Grading Improvements
Toggling the Rubric arrow expands or hides the rubric in the assessment window. A mouse or keyboard can be used to make selections for each criterion. The arrows at either end of the evaluation slider change the selection.
Enter Criterion Feedback if appropriate and continue to the next criterion
When an instructor using the New Assignment Evaluation Experience opens a rubric in a new window, the Overall Score displays for each rubric. The instructor can override the level if necessary.
Increased Accessibility
To provide a better experience to clients using screen readers, criterion levels now indicate the level name and point value of each radio button when it has the focus. In addition, the mobile view of Rubrics now has radio buttons implemented to describe the level name and point value of each criterion level, consistent with the view on a larger screen.
Grade Tiles
When a rubric is collapsed, instructors can now see if the rubric is complete. If the rubric is complete,
the collapsed rubric shows the overall level of the rubric. Previously, it was only possible to see the overall score of the rubric when the rubric was expanded.
If the rubric is not complete, the number of unscored criteria appears on the tile.
New Experience collapsed tile for completed rubrics (points-based and text-only rubrics)
Additionally, customers using rubrics with the New Evaluation Experiences can see Rubrics Statistics from within the evaluation panel.
Detaching a Rubric
When an attached rubric is deleted from an evaluated assignment, if evaluations of that rubric have
been performed, the user now receives a detach rubric confirmation message for the assignment. This is a serious step and should be considered carefully.