What are Rubrics?
Rubrics are a set of scoring guidelines that evaluate students’ work and provide clear teaching directives and criteria for students to follow. Rubrics are powerful tools to assess your students’ work, and you can finally customize them in your formatives! You can add a rubric to an open-ended question type: Drawing, Video Response, Audio Response, Free Response, or File Response.
Add a Rubric to a question:
Create a free response, file response, audio response, drawing, or video response question and add your prompt or directions
Toggle on “Use Rubric”, right below the question
Then, depending on your needs choose one of the following 3 options:
Click on "Create Rubric” for a single, one time use rubric that will not save for future use
Click on "Select an existing rubric" and then on "+ New Rubric Template" to create a new rubric and save it to your rubric templates library for repeated use,
Click on "Select an existing rubric" and choose an existing rubric template from the templates library
Enter Rubric Criteria
You can easily add Rubric criteria areas in the gray cards (at the beginning of each row).
From there, you can easily click the blue + button below the blue card to continue adding more criteria areas.
If you click on the blue button to the right of each blue box, you can add a new level for each criterion.
When you are done you can click the blue checkmark on the upper right-hand side of your page to go back to your formative
Tip: The levels in each criterion will automatically ascend in point value, starting from one point. You can always go in and change these values. To facilitate more grading flexibility, rubrics can now accept decimals as partial points.
Edit or Remove a Rubric
To edit a rubric you've already added to a question, click on the pencil icon next to it. On the editing page you will have an option to save the edits as a template.
To remove a rubric you've added to a question, click on the trash can icon next to it
Print Rubric
From the Rubric editing screen you can also print a copy of the rubric (or save it as PDF to your device from the printer communication window).
Copy or Delete a Saved Rubric Template
To copy or delete a saved rubric template from the templates library:
Click on "Select an existing rubric"
Click the triple dots to the far right of the rubric you'd like to edit or delete
Choose the preferred action from the dropdown menu
Grading
Once you have assigned your formative to your class, you can grade your students’ work by clicking the View Responses tab at the top
Click on the individual answer for each student. Answers not yet graded are denoted by a gray bar. (Once you score the response, the bar will change color according to your score threshold settings.)
You can grade each student’s paper according to the rubric you create. Simply click on the appropriate level for each criterion and it will automatically calculate the points!
As always, you can add instant or delayed feedback to your students by scrolling to the bottom of the grading screen and clicking on the send message “now” or “when I close this assignment” buttons.
Students will be able to view which levels they have achieved, as well as the scores, by clicking the "View Rubric" under each question
View Student Performance on Rubrics
On the formative's Responses tab, click the view button at the top to switch from grouping responses by questions to grouping responses by rubrics:
Grouping responses by Rubrics will display the students' performance on rubrics. You can view how students performed on each individual question for each of the rubric criteria, as well as their performance on the rubric criterion as a whole.
Rubric Performance Insights
An overview of student performance on Rubric criteria is also available within the Insights tab of the formative. Select the rubric from the dropdown list on the right, and whether you'd like performance displayed by percents or points (totals) on the left.
The performance will now display as a table:
The Student Experience
While taking the formative, students can view the rubric by clicking the 'View Rubric' button under each question on which a rubric has been enabled. At this point the rubric will not show any achievements or scores (unless the teacher selected to return scores instantly and is grading the rubrics on the spot)
Once the teacher has graded the rubric, and as long as scores are set to be returned, students will be able to click on the 'View Rubric' button and see how they performed and their scores
Pro-Tip
Want to share a rubric with others on your team?
The easiest way to do that currently is to create a formative named "Rubrics". Then add a free response question to the formative, enter the name of the rubric as the "question", toggle on "rubric", and add your created rubric template. You can add as many rubrics as you wish to share this way.
Then you can share the formative with your team (School & District license members can add collaborators to the Formative, Paid Teacher plan subscribers can send a copy of the formative to other teachers). Once they have the formative with a rubric attached, they can save it to their own library of formatives.