Creating a rubric

  1. Create a holistic rubric
  2. Define holistic rubric achievement levels
  3. Create an analytic rubric
  4. Define analytic rubric achievement levels and criteria

Create a holistic rubric

Holistic rubrics allow you to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on a single criteria using predefined achievement levels.

Holistic rubrics may use a percentages or text only scoring method. Percentage holistic rubrics have a percentage range associated with each achievement level, which allows users' quiz and grade item activities to automatically be assigned an achievement level based on their quiz score or grade. Other activities and ePortfolio items may also be evaluated with percentage holistic rubrics, you just have to manually enter users' achievement levels.

  1. On the Rubrics page, click New Rubric.
  2. Enter a Name and Description.
  3. Select a Rubric Status from the drop-down list.
  4. Select "Holistic" from the Rubric Type drop-down list.
  5. Select how many achievement levels you want the rubric to have in the Initial # of Levels field.
  6. Select a Scoring Method.
  7. Select whether you want the rubric to be associated with Competencies and/or ePortfolio.
  8. If you are creating a rubric from an org unit above a course in your organization's hierarchy, such as a department or from the organization level, and want to share it with child org units, click Add Org Units and select the org units to share with.
  9. Click Save.

Define holistic rubric achievement levels

  1. On the Rubrics page, click Edit Levels from the context menu of the holistic rubric you want to define achievement levels for.
  2. Click Edit Levels in the Levels tab.
  3. You can enter a custom Level Name for each achievement level.
  4. If you are creating a holistic rubric that uses a percentages scoring method, enter a Start Range. The start range for your lowest achievement level is automatically set to 0%. The start range for other levels should be the lowest percentage acceptable for the level. The highest percentage is determined by the start range for the level above.
  5. Enter a Description for each level. Achievement level descriptions help evaluators determine which level best reflects a user's achievement. The more detailed your descriptions are, the more consistent evaluations will be.
  6. Enter a standard Feedback for each level. Standard feedback appears to users who achieve the level, and it is an easy way to communicate a rubric's evaluation methodology.
  7. Click Save.

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Create an analytic rubric

Analytic rubrics allow you to assess a Competencies activity or ePortfolio item based on more than one criterion in a single rubric. With analytic rubrics, levels of achievement are displayed in columns and your assessment criteria are displayed in rows.

Analytic rubrics may use a points, custom points or text only scoring method. Points and custom points analytic rubrics may use both text and points to assess performance; with custom points, each criterion may be worth a different amount of points. For both points and custom points an overall score is provided based on the total number of points achieved. The overall score determines whether the activity is achieved.

  1. On the Rubrics page, click New Rubric.
  2. Enter a Name and Description.
  3. Select a Rubric Status from the drop-down list.
  4. Select "Analytic" from the Rubric Type drop-down list.
  5. Select how many achievement levels you want the rubric to have in the Initial # of Levels field.
  6. Select how many criteria you want to break your evaluation down by in the Initial # of Criteria field.
  7. Select a Scoring Method.
  8. Select whether you want the rubric to be associated with Competencies and/or ePortfolio.
  9. If you are creating a rubric from an org unit above a course in your organization's hierarchy, such as a department or from the organization level, and want to share it with child org units, click Add Org Units and select the org units to share with.
  10. Click Save.

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Define analytic rubric achievement levels and criteria

  1. On the Rubrics page, click Edit Levels and Criteria from the context menu of the analytic rubric you want to define achievement levels and criteria for.
  2. Click Edit Criterion from the context menu of a criterion you want to modify.
  3. Enter a Criterion Name.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Repeat Steps 2-4 for other criteria.

    Note  Click Add Criteria Group if you want to create a criteria made of subsections of existing criteria.

  6. Click Edit Level from the context menu of an achievement level you want to modify. We recommend that you start with the lowest achievement level and work your way up.
  7. Enter a Level Name.
  8. If you are creating an analytic rubric that uses a points scoring method, enter a Score (points) for the level. For custom points, you may enter a different score (points) for each criterion.
  9. Enter a Description of what is required to achieve the level for each criterion. Achievement level descriptions help evaluators determine which level best reflects a user's achievement. The more detailed your descriptions are, the more consistent evaluations will be.
  10. Enter a standard Feedback for each level. Standard feedback appears to users who achieve the level, and it is an easy way to communicate a rubric's evaluation methodology.
  11. Click Save.
  12. Repeat Steps 6-11 for other levels.

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