Use the Rubrics tool to create rubrics easily and efficiently within a course. You can associate rubrics with assessments and grade items; and during assessment, rubrics can standardize the evaluation of learner work and facilitate the ability to provide feedback.
Requirements
The following are required to use the Rubrics tool:
- To see and use the Rubrics tool, you must have the required Rubrics permissions applied to your role. These permissions can only be accessed by your organization administrator.
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Important: Learners can view rubrics and rubric feedback attached to assessments without the See Rubrics permission.
As of January 2023, this permission is no longer required for learners to see rubric feedback, and should be limited to instructor/evaluator roles only. If you remove the See Rubrics permission for a user, that user will not see the Rubrics tool on the navbar.
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- To add the Rubrics tool to your course navbar, you must have the required Navbar permissions applied to your role. For more information about how to add a tool or link to your course navbar, refer to the Customize your course navbar topic.
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Important: You can also locate available course tools by navigating to Course Admin from your navbar. If you cannot find the Rubrics tool in your Brightspace instance, contact your organization administrator to obtain required permissions.
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Visual tour of the Rubrics tool
- New Rubric: Create a new rubric for a course.
- Actions: Edit, preview, set status, view statistics, copy, or delete a rubric.
- Description: Lists the description for each rubric.
- Type: Analytic or Holistic.
- Scoring Method: No Score, Points, or Custom Points.
- Status: Draft, Published, or Archived.
About Rubric status options
Draft: The initial status of a rubric. Draft rubrics are not yet available for new associations.
Published: Associations can be made with published rubrics.
Archived: Archived rubrics are not available for new associations but remain visible in past evaluations.
About Rubric types
Analytic: Multi-criteria rubrics that evaluate performance across multiple criteria.
Holistic: Single-criterion rubrics evaluating overall performance.
Rubric visibility
You can control rubric visibility for learners.
- Rubric is always visible to learners
- Rubric is hidden until feedback published
- Rubric is never visible to learners
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