Rubrics | Accessing Course Rubrics

Accessing Course Rubrics

Course Rubrics are found in the Course Navigation.

If your Rubrics item has a visibility icon next to it, it means that students can’t view the Rubrics item in their Course Navigation -- but it doesn’t affect their ability to view rubrics when they are attached to assignments.

Benefits of Rubrics

Rubrics are a way to set up custom or Outcome-based criteria for scoring. A rubric is an assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality. Rubrics are typically composed of rows and columns. Rows are used to define the various criteria being used to assess an assignment. Columns are used to define levels of performance for each criterion. Rubrics can be set up as non-scoring rubrics, which allows for assessment-based and outcome-based grading without points.

Use Rubrics to:

• Communicate assessment expectations to students.
• Assess online submissions in SpeedGrader.
• Provide peer review feedback on assignment submissions.
• Effectively score work and provide meaningful feedback.
• Help ensure consistency.
• Track learning mastery by including Outcomes.
• Build a Rubric Bank so that rubrics can easily be shared and used across multiple courses.

Account and Course Level Rubrics

Account-Level Rubrics 

Account-level rubrics are rubrics that are created at the account or sub-account level. Any course within that account or sub-account can use these rubrics for assignments, discussions, or quizzes. If an account-level rubric is used in more than one place, it becomes uneditable but is still usable.

The purpose of account-level rubrics is to provide resources for instructors, not control content. For example, if the English department offered several courses to teach basic grammar rules to students, a department could create a sub-account level rubric. Instructors could then access the rubric to offer the same evaluation standards to students in different courses.

Course-Level Rubrics

Course-level rubrics are either created at the course level or copied from the account or sub-account level. Once a rubric has been used to assess a student, the rubric cannot be edited. However, existing rubrics can be recopied and used on other assignments.