New / Edit Rubric

Name: A unique name for the rubric, for example, Critical Evaluation.
Rubric Status: The availability of the rubric:

• Draft: The initial status of a rubric. Draft rubrics are not yet available for new associations.
• Published: Associations can be made with published rubrics. Once a rubric has an association, you cannot change the rubric's name, description, levels, and criteria.
• Archived: Archived rubrics do not appear in default search results and are not available for new associations. Existing associations with archived rubrics remain functional. Note: Users with permission to change a rubric's status can do so at any time.

Description: A detailed description of the rubric. Note that this description is not shown to learners and is only visible to instructors. For example: Critical thinking is a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
Rubric Type: The type of rubric:

• Analytic: Two-dimensional rubrics with levels of achievement as columns and assessment criteria as rows. Allows you to assess participants' achievements based on multiple criteria using a single rubric. You can assign different weights (value) to different criteria and include an overall achievement by totaling the criteria. With analytic rubrics, levels of achievement display in columns and your assessment criteria display in rows. Analytic rubrics may use a points, custom points, or text only scoring method. Points and custom points analytic rubrics may use both text and points to assess performance; with custom points, each criterion may be worth a different number of points. For both points and custom points, an Overall Score is provided based on the total number of points achieved. The Overall Score determines if learners meet the criteria determined by instructors. You can manually override the Total and the Overall Score of the rubric.
• Holistic: Single criterion rubrics (one-dimensional) used to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on predefined achievement levels. Holistic rubrics may use a percentage or text only scoring method.

Scoring Method: used to assess rubrics with textual performance levels such as Excellent, or with text and numeric score such as Excellent (90 points). There are several ways to score a rubric:

• No Score: Performance levels indicated by text. For example, three performance levels for a rubric can be Poor, Good, and Excellent.
• Points: This scoring method is only available to analytic rubrics. Performance levels indicated by points. For example, three performance levels for a rubric can be Poor (0 points), Good (75 points), and Excellent (125 points).
• Custom Points: This scoring method is only available to analytic rubrics. The Custom Points scoring method is similar to the Points scoring method, but you can customize the points given for each criterion. For example, if performance levels are Poor, Good, and Excellent, then the criterion Spelling and Grammar can be worth 0 points, 10 points, and 20 points for each level, and the criterion Expression can be worth 0 points, 30 points, and 60 points, making it worth three times the points of Spelling and Grammar.
• Percentages: This scoring method is only available to holistic rubrics. A holistic rubric using Percentages can be automatically assessed based on the score of its associated item, for example, a Grade item.

Rubric Visibility: The visibility of the rubric. Hiding a rubric is useful for preventing learners from using the preview rubric as an answer key for an activity. For more information, see Visibility of rubrics.
Hide Scores: Hide scores from learner view. 
Note the following:

• The top of the page displays the rubric type and scoring method. You can change the type and scoring method at any time; however, changing your rubric from analytic to holistic will cause all but the first row of your rubric to be deleted.
• As you add or edit rubric information, your changes are automatically saved.
• You can re-order criteria using drag and drop or using your keyboard.
• A rubric description is what is required to achieve the level for each criterion. Achievement level descriptions help evaluators determine which level best reflects a user's achievement. The more detailed your descriptions are, the more consistent evaluations will be.
• You can add bolding, italics, and lists to rubric descriptions. You can also use Insert Stuff to add third-party content, for example, images. Rubric descriptions do not support replace strings and additional HTML code.
• You can add predefined feedback that appears to users who achieve a specific level, and it is an easy way to communicate a rubric's evaluation methodology. Predefined feedback does not support HTML.
• If you are creating a holistic rubric that uses a percentage scoring method, enter a start range. The start range for your lowest achievement level is automatically set to 0%. The start range for other levels should be the lowest percentage acceptable for the level. The highest percentage is determined by the start range for the level above.

Copy, Delete, or Share a rubric

Copying a rubric creates a new rubric based on an existing rubric in the same org unit, allowing you to easily reuse it in a unit. The new rubric has the same properties, levels and criteria, and is shared with the same org units as the original rubric.

1. On the navbar, click Rubrics.
2. On the Rubrics page, from the context menu of the rubric you want to copy, click Copy.
3. Click on the new rubric to edit it.

Delete a rubric

You can only delete a rubric in the org unit where it was created. You cannot delete a rubric that is attached to a grade item.

1. On the navbar, click Rubrics.
2. On the Rubrics page, from the context menu of the rubric you want to delete, click Delete.

Share a rubric

You can create rubrics at the organization, department, or unit level. Rubrics are not automatically shared with all child org units below the org unit where they were created. You must explicitly share them if you want to make them available to child org units. Rubrics created at the unit level cannot be shared with other units, however, you can create a rubric in a unit template and reuse it in unit offerings for that unit template.

1. On the My Home page, on the navbar, click Rubrics.
2. Click on the rubric you want to share with another org unit.
3. In the Properties tab, in the Advanced Availability area, click Add Org Units.
4. Select the org units where you want to share the rubric. If applicable, you can also select sharing options, including This org unit, All descendants, or All descendants of type.
5. Click Insert.
6. Click Save.