Tag Archives: Rubrics

IDS Updates: Webinars, Wimba, Academic Integrity, Rubrics

Stay sharp Whether you’re heading out or staying on campus, keep your online education skill up to snuff this summer with archived webinars from our partners. UDM is a member of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group. The TLT has a deep archive of webinars on a huge variety of topics related to effective use of technology in teaching. Sample topics include active teaching/learning activities, using apps, social networking, copyright, strategies getting resistant students engaged in learning, and much, much...

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...