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Associate rubrics
You must associate rubrics to assignments and discussion topics to have the rubric appear while you are grading.
If you don't want your students to see your rubric before submitting their assignments, don't associate the rubric until after students submit. You can access Rubrics by clicking on Course Admin instead of adding the link to your Navigation Bar - adding the link will allow students to access the Rubrics tool.
Go to the Edit page for the assignment or discussion topic that you want to associate the rubric with. You will be on the Properties tab.
If you are associating a rubric with a discussion topic, click the Assessments tab. Otherwise, scroll down on the Properties page for assignments.
Click Add Rubric to bring up a pop-up window for selecting a rubric.
Select the checkbox beside each rubric you want to associate.
Click Add Selected to associate the selected rubric(s).
You can also add a rubric from the Evaluate Submission page of an assignment by clicking on the Associate Rubric link under Evaluation.
(Optional) If you are associating multiple points-based rubric with the same assignment, select a Default Scoring Rubric from the drop-down list to select which rubric's score will be transferred to each student's grade for the assignment on the Evaluate Submission page. If you don't select a default, the first rubric in the list will be used as the default.
Click Save.
To disassociate a rubric, click the X icon beside the rubric. If you already transferred feedback or scores for students using this rubric with an assignment, the feedback and scores you left will NOT be deleted.
Grade with rubrics
After associating a rubric, you can make it appear while grading and use it to score your students.
Grade an assignment using a rubric
On the main Assignments page, click the name of the assignment containing submissions you want to grade with your rubric.
Click Evaluate beside the name of a student who has submitted the assignment.
Click the name of the rubric in the sidebar (e.g. Rubric Experience).
If you are using more than one rubric for an assignment, select a rubric from the Scoring rubric drop-down list on the student submission page. The score from this rubric will be used for the submission.
In the pop-up window that appears, select the level that a student has achieved for each criterion. For an analytic rubric, the Overall Score will be calculated automatically based on the scores you give for each criterion.
Click Close to return to the submission of the student. The rubric will now show as graded with a checkbox on its icon and the level achieved showing below.
On the Evaluate Submission page, click Save Draft to save your feedback without releasing it.
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Click Publish to release the score and feedback to the students immediately and continue on to the next student.
Repeat for all submissions and return to the Submissions page.
If you clicked Save Draft above, select all students and click Publish Feedback to release the feedback to all students.
Students can see their scored rubrics on the View Feedback page for the assignment.
Grade directly in the Grades tool using a rubric
On the main Grades page, click the arrow beside the assignment or discussion topic you added a rubric to and select Grade All or Enter Grades.
After adding a rubric to a grade item, the Assessment column with rubrics icons
for each student will appear in the Enter Grades page for that grade item.Click the rubric icon beside a student's name.
In the pop-up window that appears, select your score(s) on the rubric.
Click Save to save your score.
Click Cancel or the X icon to close the window. Your score rubrics will still be saved.
In the Grade column, enter a grade based on your rubric's score.
Repeat for all students.
Click Save.
Students can see their scored rubrics from their view of the Grades page by clicking the [Assessment details] link beside the grade item.
Grade a discussion topic using a rubric
On the main Discussions page, click the arrow beside the discussion topic you added the rubric to and select Assess Topic.
Click the name of the attached rubric below a student's name.
In the pop-up window that appears, select the score(s) you want to give the student on the rubric.
Click on Save Draft.
Repeat for all students.
Click Publish All Scores at the top of the page to release the scores and feedback to students.
Students can click their name on the top toolbar, select Progress and then select Discussions to view their scored rubrics.
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