Blackboard 9.1 Rubrics

Christian A Clausen 02/11/2015

Blackboard 9.1

Rubrics

PRESENTED BY THE SON INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN TEAM

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Contents

ABOUT RUBRICS ........................................................................................................... 3

CREATING A RUBRIC .................................................................................................... 3

RUBRIC INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 5

RUBRIC DETAIL ......................................................................................................... 5

ASSOCIATING RUBRICS TO COURSE ITEMS ............................................................ 8

GRADING WITH RUBRICS .......................................................................................... 10

ACCESSING THE GRADE ASSIGNMENT PAGE FOR THE ITEM .......................... 10

USING THE RUBRIC TO GRADE ............................................................................. 12

NOTES .......................................................................................................................... 17

QUESTIONS? ............................................................................................................... 18


ABOUT RUBRICS

Rubrics are an extremely useful tool for grading in Blackboard. They allow instructors to

establish and use specific criteria for evaluating student assignments. This ensures

clear and consistent grading for each assignment.

The advantages of grading using rubrics include:

Providing consistency in grading/evaluation

Presenting assignment expectations up front

Specifying scoring for grading criteria

Giving students the opportunity to self-assess

Allowing for measurement of specific skills

CREATING A RUBRIC

In the left-hand Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and select Rubrics.


The Rubrics page will appear.

Click Create Rubric.

The Create Rubric page will appear.


RUBRIC INFORMATION

Enter a Name for the rubric.

Optionally, enter any Description information that will make it easier to associate this

rubric with relevant assignments

NOTE: The Description information will not be visible to students. Also, you cannot

format this text or break it up into paragraphs.

RUBRIC DETAIL


Choose a Rubric Type from the drop-down list.

The options include:

No Points (feedback only)

Points

Point Range (when grading the assignment, you will need to choose a specific

score within the point range you had previously selected)

Percent

Percent Range (when grading the assignment, you will need to choose a

specific percentage within the range you had previously selected)

NOTE: Most frequently, you will be using Points or Point Range.

Click Add Row to add new Criteria to the grid.


Click Add Column to add a new Level of Achievement to the grid.

Click the arrow next to a label’s name and select Edit to change its name.

Enter a Point or Percent value for each cell.


Enter a description for each Criteria and the associated Level of Achievement in the

appropriate cell.

Click Submit.

ASSOCIATING RUBRICS TO COURSE ITEMS

Rubrics can be associated with the following items:

Assignments

Test Items:

o Essay questions

o Short Answer questions

o File attachments

Blogs and Journals

Wikis

Discussion Board Forums and Threads


You can associate a rubric while creating or editing an item.

In the GRADING section of the Edit Item window, hover over Add Rubric.

A context menu with the following items will appear:

Select Rubric (choose an already existing rubric)

Create New Rubric

Create From Existing (use a previously created rubric as a template to create a

new one)


By default, the rubric will not be shown to students.

However, we recommend that you select Yes (With Rubric Scores) in order to make

the rubric visible to your students.

GRADING WITH RUBRICS

Once you have associated a gradable item with a rubric, you can use the rubric to grade

that item.

ACCESSING THE GRADE ASSIGNMENT PAGE FOR THE ITEM

Access the Grade Center from the left hand navigation panel.

NOTE: The Grade Assignment page can also be accessed through the Needs

Grading and Assignments links.


Hover over the cell for the assignment that you want to grade. Click the downward-

pointing arrow that appears on the right side of the cell.

In the menu, select the Attempt you want to grade.

You will be directed to the Grade Assignment page.


USING THE RUBRIC TO GRADE

In the right-hand panel of the Grade Assignment page, click on the arrow to show the

grading panel.

You can either view the rubric in a separate pop-up window or inline, in the grading

panel.


In order to view the rubric as a separate window, click on the icon next to the name of

the rubric that you want to use.

The Rubric Detail pop-up window will appear.


Click a cell to apply that particular point value or percentage to the grade. If a rubric with

Ranges is used, select the appropriate value from the drop-down list.

If you want, you can leave Feedback to the student in the text box that appears when a

cell is selected.

NOTE: This feedback will only be visible if you had set the rubric grading score to be

visible to the students.

The Raw Total will automatically update at the bottom of the window.

You can override the Raw Total score by entering a score in the Change the number

of points out of x to: box.


Click Save to save the score and feedback and return to the Grade Assignment

window.

Alternately, you can click the rubric’s name to show the rubric inline.

In this view, you can Show/Hide Descriptions for each achievement level.


You can also Show/Hide Feedback text boxes.

Click the Save Rubric button to finish grading the item.


NOTES

For additional details, see the following:

How to Create a Rubric for Grading Student Work (video)

http://youtu.be/ReR0icb-4Vk

How to Grade Using a Rubric (video)

http://youtu.be/fvN0Q4jPd-c

Blackboard Help: Rubrics

http://help.blackboard.com/en-

us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/120_Grade_Center/020_Grading/010_Rubrics

http://youtu.be/ReR0icb-4Vk

http://youtu.be/fvN0Q4jPd-c

http://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/120_Grade_Center/020_Grading/010_Rubrics

http://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/120_Grade_Center/020_Grading/010_Rubrics


QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions about using Blackboard, please contact one of our

Instructional Design Team members at this email address:

[email protected]

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