Category Archives: Rubrics

Rubrics in Blackboard

Rubrics are an excellent tool for both standardizing how you grade an assessment AND to communicating your expectations to your students. You are likely already using one or more rubrics in your courses – perhaps you’re providing students with a Word or Excel rubric file. Blackboard has a built-in rubric tool which is both pretty powerful and easy to use. In this first 10 minute video, we look at the basics of creating a rubric. http://research.udmercy.edu/ids/video/rubric_intro.mp4 In this second 10...

Getting rubric reports

While Blackboard currently doesn’t have the option to download a detailed view of all scored rubrics that includes feedback, you do have the ability to generate a report that provides a broad overview of student performance on an assessment. To access the rubric reports for a column, load up your Grade Center, click the options button for the column in question, and select COLUMN STATISTICS. Then click the large RUBRIC EVALUATION REPORT button. Select the report file type from the...

Grading with rubrics

Once you’ve set up a rubric and associated it with a column in your Grade Center, using it to grade that column is pretty easy. Load up your Grade Center and point to the cell you want to grade. Click the options button (arrow in a gray circle that appears when you point to a cell) and choose VIEW GRADE DETAILS. To grade using your Rubric, click the VIEW RUBRIC button on the Grade Details page. Grid view is the...