Rubrics in myCourses

A rubric allows you to assess students’ work by selecting levels on a grid with one or more criteria, and by adding written feedback for each criterion. If you choose to evaluate assignments and quizzes without using the Rubrics tool, a rubric can still be employed as a set of guidelines to help you and your teaching assistants assess student submissions.

Topic	Description	Links
Rubric types	Decide on an appropriate rubric given the learning objectives of the assessment.	Types of rubrics in myCourses Analytic rubric Holistic rubric
Create rubrics	Create a rubric, and manage levels and rubric criteria.	Create rubrics in myCourses Create a rubric Manage rubric levels Manage rubric criteria (analytic rubrics only)
Grade with rubrics	Add rubrics to assignments, discussion topics, quizzes, surveys, and standalone Grade Items.	Associate rubrics and grade with rubrics Associate rubrics Grade with rubrics (assignment, quiz, or discussion topic)
Manage rubric scores and feedback	Override, manually enter, delete, or hide rubric scores and feedback.	Manage rubric scores and feedback Override an overall score Manually enter scores and feedback on a rubric Delete scores and feedback on a rubric Hide rubric scores
Manage rubrics	Manage rubrics (copy, delete, recover archived rubrics). Edit rubric properties and status, and view statistics.	Manage rubrics Overview of options to manage rubrics Set a rubric’s status Copy a rubric Delete a rubric Search for rubrics and recover archived rubrics
View rubrics statistics	Use Rubric Statistics to view the course objects associated with a rubric, how many times the rubric has been used to score that object, what the average rubric level achieved is, and what the percentage of times you and/or your Teaching Assistant(s) selected each level is. Rubric Statistics may be useful for assessing the overall quality of any course objects you scored with the rubric.	View rubric statistics

Notes on using rubrics

After you use a rubric to grade a student’s work, the rubric is locked and you can no longer edit it. You must create a copy of the rubric to edit it again.
If you don’t want your students to see the rubric before submitting their assignments, don’t associate the rubric until after students submit their work. Additionally, access Rubrics by clicking Course Admin instead of adding it to your Navigation Bar.
When using rubrics in the Discussions tools, the scores from the rubric will not automatically transfer to the Topic Score. You must manually enter the scores in these tools.
When using rubrics to score discussions, students can only view the scored rubric from the User Progress page.

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