Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rubrics

Rubrics are excellent assessment tools for any type of assignment or project.  Not only do they communicate clear expectations to students, but they also assist instructors when it comes time for evaluating student work.  "Rubrics can help ensure consistent and impartial grading. . . Students can use the rubric to organize their efforts to meet the requirements of an assignment, and [instructors] can use them to explain evaluations to students."  (taken from Blackboard Help's Rubrics page)

Learn more about creating Rubrics for Blackboard submissions . . . 

Anything within Blackboard that has points associated with it (assignments, discussion board, journals, blogs, etc.) can have a rubric linked to it.  By default, rubrics are not visible to students, but these settings can be easily changed.  When you allow students to view rubrics, they can preview the rubric before submitting an assignment and can view the scored rubric once you grade the submission to find out how many points they received for each portion of the assignment or project.  

Learn more about using Rubrics to grade Blackboard submissions . . . 


Instructors can customize any of the criteria and levels of achievement for any rubric.  Rubrics scores can be set based on points/percentages, as well as a range of either one.  A single rubric within a Blackboard course can be assigned to multiple assignments/projects, or each assignment/project can have its own rubric.  Rubrics can be created as part of the assignment creation process or can be created within the Course Tools > Rubrics area of the Blackboard Control Panel and later added to any assignment/project.

Visit Blackboard Help's official Rubrics page to learn more about creating, editing, and managing rubrics.  

There are some great online tools for building rubrics that can be helpful if you're looking for ideas for descriptions for each criteria.  You can gain ideas from these rubrics to use as you build your own within Blackboard.  Visit either of the following sites for rubric information and ideas (be sure to read and follow the terms of use / usage policy for each one):






For additional assistance with Blackboard Assignments, including inline grading and rubrics, contact the TLC at tlc@icc.edu or (309) 694-8908, or visit us in room 240A on the East Peoria campus.


Next week our Blackboard Users' Group will meet in the TLC on Wednesday, February 3 at 12noon or Thursday, February 4 at 3pm - participants may attend either session.

Our February blog series will focus on Tests & Pools and will include topics about building and deploying tests, as well as viewing test results and access logs.


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