Marking with Rubrics

This is available for Graders.

Rubrics can help instructors communicate their expectations to candidates and ensure consistent and fair grading. The rubric provides Graders with the information they need to grade a question with the same criteria and standards.

This article gives a Rubrics overview, explains how to use the different types of rubrics to grade, and includes a video tutorial.

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Rubrics overview

Rubrics are created in two ways: from the Author module, or directly within a question. To learn more about creating Rubrics, see our article How to Create Rubrics.

A rubric consists of rows (Criteria) and columns (levels of performance). It assigns points to a candidate's work based on what they were able to demonstrate on the assessment.

Criteria: The specific knowledge and skills required for the assessment.
Levels of performance: What a candidate can demonstrate on an assessment.
Maximum Points: Points assigned to each criterion that are distributed across the levels of performance.

All rubrics allow you to add comments as a Grader.

There are five different types of Rubrics:

Point-based: A single point value is assigned to each Level of Performance.
Points-range: A range of values is assigned to each Level of Performance.
Percentage-range: A range of percentages is assigned to each Level of Performance.
Qualitative: Qualitative rubrics have no point value assigned to the rubric and can be used to give the candidate feedback.
Marked Qualitative: Marked Qualitative rubrics have no point value assigned to the rubric and can be used to give the candidate feedback, while at the same time allowing the Grader to provide a Mark to the question as a whole.

To learn more about Rubrics, see the article Rubric types and their purpose for grading.

Marking with Rubrics

You must have already set up the rubric in the test creation phase.

In the Grade module, select the test you wish to grade.
go to the Marking workspace.
Find Rubric on the right-side panel. Here you can also choose to mark from the Rubric matrix view.
Assign the level of performance from the rubric.
Optionally, you can leave feedback for the candidate. Feedback visibility will depend on the test settings set by the Planner.
The next step depends on the type of rubric that is used on the question.
- With a Qualitative Rubric, you do not need to assign any points.
- With a Points-range Rubric, you will also need to set points as well assigning the level of performance.

Marking with different Rubric types

Points-based rubric

Select a level of performance that corresponds to the criterion.
The points are already set in the Rubric.

Points-range rubric

Select a level of performance that corresponds to the criterion.
Set the exact point you want to give to the candidate. In a point-range rubrics the points need to be in the range that is specified in the level of performance.

Percentage-range rubric

Select a level of performance that corresponds to the criterion.
Set the percentage value you want to give to the candidate.The value need to be in the range that is specified in the level of performance. You can give up to two decimal places.