EIU D2L Solutions

Rubrics

Using rubrics offers students a guideline to complete course activities like Assignments and Discussions. 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.

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. All EIU instructor accounts have access to the Rubrics Tool in D2L.

• To add the Rubrics tool to your course navbar, you can refer to the Customize your course navbar topic.

Important:  You can also locate available course tools by navigating to Course Admin from your navbar. If you cannot find the Rubrics tool, contact the FDIC Instructional Support and Training Specialist Team at fdic_help@eiu.edu.

Rubric Types

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 learners' overall achievement on an activity or item based on predefined achievement levels. Holistic rubrics may use a percentage or text only scoring method.

Scoring: 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 are 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.

For a visual tour of the rubrics tool and more information on using rubrics, please refer to this topic on the D2L Brightspace Community page.

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