LibGuides: CougarVIEW Guides: Rubrics

Overview

Overview of Create a Rubric: This page shows the steps to create, name, and customize your rubric to fit your assessment needs.

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Overview of Edit a Rubric: You can edit or make any changes to the existing rubric. The steps to do so are shown in this page.

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Overview of Delete a Rubric: You can delete a rubric in the org unit where it was created. The steps to do so are shown in this page.

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Overview of Copy a Rubric: You can copy the existing rubric in same the org unit to create a new rubric which allows you to reuse it in the course. The steps to copy a rubric are shown in this page.

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Overview of Share a Rubric: Rubrics are not automatically shared with all child org units under which they were created. The steps to share a rubric among different units are shown in this page.

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Overview of Visibility of Rubrics: You can control the visibility of a rubric for learners. The detailed information is shown in this page.

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Overview of Where to use Rubrics: The different locations where the rubric can be used are listed in this page.

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Rubrics

From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
From the Rubrics tool, select New Rubric.
Enter a Name for your rubic.
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.
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.
Select New Criterion to enter the criterion name, enter a rubric Level, and enter the point level.
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.
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.
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.
Click to expand Options, and customize the following:
- Rubric Visibility
- Score Visibility
- Description
- Advanced Visibility
Select Close to finish creating your rubric.

From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
On the Rubrics page, select on the rubric you want to edit.
Make your changes.
Tip: If more than one criterion group appears in your rubric, direction arrows appear to the left of the criterion group header to reorder the criterion groups in the rubric.
Select Close. Your edits save automatically.

You can only delete a rubric in the org unit where it was created. You cannot delete a rubric that is being used by a Competencies activity or Brightspace ePortfolio item, or attached to a grade item.

From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
On the Rubrics page, from the context menu of the rubric you want to delete, select Delete.

To delete a single criterion from a rubric

Open the rubric you want to edit.
On the Edit Rubrics page, select the action menu beside the criterion name.
Select Delete Row.

Copying a rubric creates a new rubric based on an existing rubric in the same org unit, allowing you to easily reuse it in a course. The new rubric has the same properties, levels and criteria, and is shared with the same org units as the original rubric.

From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
On the Rubrics page, from the context menu of the rubric you want to copy, select Copy.
Select on the new rubric to edit it.

It is also possible to copy a single rubric criterion to facilitate reusing criteria that have already been created.

Open the rubric you want to edit.
On the Edit Rubrics page, select the action menu beside the criterion name.
Select Copy Row.

Note: The new criterion is added under the original with the criterion name Copy of [name of original criterion]. It is automatically highlighted so you can rename the new criterion.
Rename the newly created criterion.

You can create rubrics at the organization, department, or course level. Rubrics are not automatically shared with all child org units below the org unit where they were created. You must explicitly share them if you want to make them available to child org units. Rubrics created at the course level cannot be shared with other courses, however, you can create a rubric in a course template and reuse it in course offerings for that course template.

If you are using Competencies to evaluate users, we recommend you set up rubrics before you set up your competencies, learning objectives, and activities since you cannot create an activity without associating it with a rubric and you cannot assess whether a user has completed a competency or learning objective without assessing the associated activities using the rubric.

From the navbar, under Assessments dropdown, select Rubrics.
Select on the rubric you want to share with another org unit.
In the Properties tab, in the Advanced Availability area, select Add Org Units.
Select the org units where you want to share the rubric. If applicable, you can also select sharing options, including This org unit, All descendants, or All descendants of type.
Select Insert.
Select Save.

You can control rubric visibility for learners. This is useful for preventing learners from using preview rubrics as answer keys for activities. For example, you can describe assessment expectations in assignment instructions, hiding the associated preview rubric. Once the assignment is graded, you release the graded rubric as part of the learner's assessment details.

Rubric visibility is controlled in two ways:

Administrators can set the default visibility of new rubrics at the org unit level.
Instructors can set the visibility of individual rubrics. Creating or editing a rubric includes the following options: Rubric is always visible to learners, Rubric is hidden until feedback published, and Rubric is never visible to learners.

To indicate rubric visibility to instructors, rubrics that are hidden until feedback is published or rubrics that are never visible display an indicator in the Rubrics section of the associated activity. Visible rubrics do not display an indicator.

Note the following:

The visibility status of a rubric can only be changed at the rubric level, not at the activity level. For example, you cannot change the visibility of a rubric from an assignment.
Visibility is a property of a rubric and not an individual assessment. Rubric definitions and published feedback appear on any page where the rubric is used.
For individual and group discussions, an instructor assesses the rubric in the assess topic workflow. Upon saving the assessment, the rubric feedback is considered published.
For surveys, an instructor assesses the rubric in the survey assessment workflow (Completion Summary in the classic Content tool). Upon saving the assessment, the rubric feedback is considered published.

Displaying rubric feedback:

If you select the Rubric is visible to students, after the rubric feedback is published to the learner, they can see the rubric feedback and rubric definition on any page where the rubric is used.

For individual and group assignments, an instructor assesses the rubric in the assignment assessment workflow. Upon publishing or updating the assessment, the rubric feedback is considered published. To make changes after publishing rubric feedback, you can edit your feedback while it remains published (allowing learners to view any updates as you make them), or you can retract the published feedback to remove the rubric from the learner's view and then publish it again.

If you select Rubric is hidden from students, learners do not see rubrics or rubric feedback. However, if you select Include rubric feedback in overall feedback, the learner can see any feedback provided on the rubric as part of the general feedback for the activity.

Note: The Include rubric feedback in overall feedback option should be selected when the rubric is selected or before the rubric is evaluated. This option cannot be turned on after there is an assessment against the rubric.

If you select Rubric is hidden from students until feedback is published, learners can see both the rubric and the feedback only after the feedback is published.

You can attach a rubric to any of the following course tools or activities:

Competencies
Discussion topics (Individual and Group)
Assignments (Individual and Group)
Brightspace ePortfolio
Grade items
Surveys
Brightspace Portfolio