CougarVIEW Instructor Guides: Create a rubric

Use the Rubrics tool to create, name, and customize your rubric to fit your assessment needs.

1. From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
   
2. From the Rubrics tool, select New Rubric.
   
3. Enter a Name for your rubic.
4. Choose the appropriate rubric Type:
   
   • Type: Holistic provides a single criterion. You can also use 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.
   • Type: Analytic provides a two-dimensional rubrics with levels of achievement as columns and assessment criteria as rows. Allows you to assess participants' achievements based on multiple criteria using a single rubric. You can assign different weights (value) to different criteria and include an overall achievement by totaling the criteria. With analytic rubrics, levels of achievement display in columns and your assessment criteria display 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 number 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 if learners meet the criteria determined by instructors. You can manually override the Total and the Overall Score of the rubric.
5. Choose the appropriate Scoring type:
   
   • Scoring: Points results in each rubric level having the same score for each criterion.
   • Scoring: No Score indicates that no point values are set.
   • Scoring: Custom Points provides the ability to set unique point values for each level in each criterion.
6. Select New Criterion to enter the criterion name, enter a rubric Level, and enter the point level.
   
7. Do any of the following optional steps:
   • If you want to add more rubric levels, select the Add new level before (+) button. The new level appears as a column beside the existing level(s).
   • If you want to delete existing rubric levels, select the trash bin icon.
     
   • If you want to add more criteria, select + Add Criterion and enter the criterion name.
   • If you want to delete existing criteria, select Delete Row.
8. Add a description of each criterion Level, as well as  Initial Feedback for that level that will be applied when assessing learner submissions.
   

   Note: You can select Add Criteria Group to create a separate group of assessment criteria.

9. Adjust the Overall Score parameters to determine the overall level and score that is mapped to achievement levels and assigned to learners based on their submission.
   
10. Click to expand Options, and customize the following:
    • Rubric Visibility
    • Score Visibility
    • Description
    • Advanced Visibility
    
11. Select Close to finish creating your rubric.