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A rubric is a grading standard you establish for a given assignment. Within the rubric,
you can establish various criteria: oh, mechanics, ideas, the flow of the document, or whatever
criteria you want to establish. For each of those criteria, you can establish various
levels: barely made it, okay, excellent, whatever levels you want.
In this video, I'll show you how to create a rubric, and how to create a checklist, the
rubric's close cousin. Now, to do that, I'm going to create a whole new assignment because
rubrics are linked to assignments. So, here, and let's create a brand-new assignment. We'll
want the students to upload files... this assignment...I'll just call it Rubric Test.
Oh...that's fine. I don't want to do any of the dates. Let's say this assignment's going
to be worth, oh, 50 points; and I'm going to use a rubric for this assignment. And this
is the key: if you do simple direct grading, then you won't be able to use a rubric, you'll
simply put in a score for the student. A checklist, again, I'll cover in just a few moments; but
let's say Rubric; and in the gradebook we're not going to categorize this (I don't have
any categories in this particular gradebook). Now, the rest of these settings I'm just going
to leave on default. Scroll all the way to the bottom, save and return to course. And
now the assignment is set up.
I can turn editing off, and here's my Rubric Test. If I click this link and go to settings
for this assignment, I'll see one setting called Advanced Grading. I'll open that up
and I can define my rubric. Now, this rubric is going to be called A Rubric Test. Now,
folks, you can create all kinds of standardized rubrics for your class; you can have one rubric
that's just for, I don't know, drafts that students submit, you can have another rubric
for term paper, you can have another rubric for, oh, whatever. Once you've created these
rubrics, you can use one rubric for several different assignments; you don't have to re-create
a brand-new rubric for every assignment.
Test Rubric. Now, at this point, I have various criteria that I can add and various levels
within the criteria. You'll notice I can add a new criterion, I can add new levels. But
let me edit this first criteria. In I want to grade the ideas the student has presented.
I'm going to click to edit this level. "No ideas presented" and it's zero points. Now,
here's an important tip: you'll want your lowest level to always be worth zero points.
Moodle does some interesting calculations with rubrics and if you have your lowest level
as worth one or two or three points, then the total points your students receive for
a given assignment will not be what you expect. So, leave the lowest level at zero points
and that will solve a lot of problems for you.
Okay, my next level, "a few ideas presented" oh, and I'm going to make this worth five
points. And my top level "many new ideas presented" and I'll make this worth 10 points. I could
add more levels so that I can have four or five different levels if I wanted. Let's add
one more criterion and this will be "mechanics." "Numerous spelling errors" -- zero points
-- "a few spelling errors" -- five points -- and "many spelling errors." Now, you'll
notice by default Moodle's making each level worth the same number of points. I don't have
to accept that. For this level, I can have it zero, three, and seven points. For example,
I can add a level just to this criterion so this particular criterion would have four
levels and this one would have three. But I would say in general the more standardized
you can make each of your criteria and the more standardized you can make your levels
the easier it will be for your students to understand.
Now we can set up a few of these rubric items, here. We can choose to change it by ascending
or descending number of points for each level. Typically, we start at zero and go up to 10.
We can allow users to preview the rubric used in the module; that way, students can see
what they're going to be graded on. That's, generally, a pretty good idea. We can display
the rubric description during evaluation. Now, that description was up here at the top;
may or may not be important for you to see the description. You can display the description
to those being graded, so you can choose to have your description visible to students.
You can display the points for each level during evaluation or not. You can display
the points for each level to your students or not. You can allow the grader to add text
remarks for each criterion. If you do that, Moodle will add a new block out here that's
just an empty block that you can type into. So, you can add comments for each level or
not; and you can show remarks to those being graded or not. Now, I'm going to save this
rubric and make it ready. By the way, if I'm not ready to actually use this, I'm still
drafting it, and then I would want to save it as a draft. But, I'll save it, make it
ready, at that means Moodle then will set this rubric up so that I can actually use
it in various assignments. And there we go. I can publish the form as a new template so
I've got a rubric I can publish; it means I can use it even in different classes. I
can delete it if I want, or I can edit this thing. And here's what the rubric looks like.
Let me go back to my class and the Rubric Test. I now have an assignment that's being
graded by a rubric.
Now a checkbox is very similar -- I'm sorry, a checklist -- is very similar to a rubric.
However, in a rubric you have several criteria and each criteria has several levels; however,
for each criteria you can only select one level: the student didn't do so well or he
did very well, or whatever, you select the level for each criterion. With a checklist,
it's possible for the students to have every item checked and the set up of the thing,
and the way that is used, is very similar to rubric, except with a checklist everything
can be checked. Oh, for instance you may want to use a checklist if all you're interested
in are the mechanics of a document. So, you can have a checklist where you say "are the
margins one-inch," "did they have a title at the top of the page," "did they have some
kind of citation that was properly formatted," and all of that sort of thing. You can set
up your checklist so you can actually check off what the student has completed and not
check what was not completed. Each of those checks, then, would count a certain number
of points and your students could then earn whatever score you have checked off.
That's about it for creating rubrics. In my video where I show you how to grade assignments,
I actually use a rubric to grade this assignment, the paper submission, and you may want to
take a look at that video if you want to see how to grade a rubric. That's about it. Always
remember that help is only a phone call or click away.