Use a formula in an analytic rubric

Question

Warning
            No formatter is installed for the format not-found

Stephen.R.50 · Answer

Hello @Susana.C.858, thanks for your question!

I unfortunately don't know of any way for you to directly use a formula to meet your requirement, but I was thinking of possible alternatives.

Depending on how many criteria you have, and assuming that one of those levels is zero, you would be able to specify the overall score to reflect that a certain level needs to be achieved which would preclude any zero's within the rubric

Here's the example I created:

Since I have two criteria, the only way a student would not receive any zero selections if if they have 2 points or above, which is also reflected in the "Developing Skills" Overall Score.

There's then three ways I'm thinking of that you could identify when a student received a zero or "Not Meeting Expectations":

* Using one of the data reports to identify the overall level achieved. An example would be the Rubric Assessments Advanced Dataset report
* Using the statistics view of the rubric itself. For this go back to the Rubric page and select the drop-down menu next to the rubric being used, choosing View Statistics. When I tested I used an Assignment, so I went to the tab Competency Activities. Click on the icon under Actions next to your activity. You can see the stats from this new page, and identify which students received a zero under the Individual Statistics tab
* The third option I was thinking of is by using an associated grade item. For my Assignment test, I attached the rubric noted above, and gave the Assignment a max grade of 4. That way, if someone was to get below 2/4, it would indicate they received a zero in one criteria which could then be checked.

Hope one of these options may help you. Let us know should you have any further questions!

~Stephen

Raquel.B.1893 · Answer

Hello Susana,

Great question!

In Brightspace, there isn’t a way to add conditional logic directly within an analytic rubric. The total is always calculated as a straight sum of the selected levels, so you can’t check for something like “no zeros” as part of that calculation.

You can use a Formula Grade Item in the Grades tool, but it only works with the overall score — it doesn’t have access to individual rubric criteria. So even if you apply a formula, it won’t be able to tell whether any specific criterion was scored as zero.

If you need to confirm that no criterion received a zero, the only reliable option is outside the grading calculation — for example, using Brightspace Data Sets, where rubric criterion-level scores are available for reporting.

Please let me know if you have any doubts.

Raquel