Rubrics can help ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations.
A rubric is a scoring tool you can use to evaluate graded work. When you create a rubric, you divide the assigned work into parts. You can provide clear descriptions of the characteristics of the work associated with each part, at varying levels of skill.
Rubric Types in Blackboard Assignments
You can create four types of rubrics in a course:
- Percentage-based rubrics
- Percentage-range rubrics
- Points-based rubrics
- Points-range rubrics
- No points rubrics where qualitative feedback based on criteria only instead of numerical values.
Generate rubrics
Watch the video guide below for instructions to set up a rubric in Blackboard:
Accessing the rubric during marking
When marking with rubrics, the rubric marking panel can be popped out into a seperate, moveable window. From the rubrics panel, simply click the popout icon. The rubrics will be presented in grid format.
This enables the marker to view all criteria side-by-side with the student’s submission. The table can be navigated using either the keyboard arrow or tab keys.
Whilst the rubric pop-out window is open, changes cannot be made to the marks in the main screen, this prevents 2 markers making changes at the same time.
A warning message will appear if the marker has not saved the marks entered in the pop-out window before moving on from the task.
Rubric Evaluation Report
A rubric valuation report can be run directly from the gradebook.
Click on the item marked with a rubric and select the download button from the Assessment Details panel. Select Download rubric report.
The report is divided into four sections.
- Overview: This section identifies the activity being measured, the rubric used, the rubric type, and the total number of student evaluations included in the report.
- Rubric Overall Performance: This section shows the average score your students achieved against the total points possible.
- Rubric Analysis: This section displays a bar graph comparing the points possible for each rubric criterion to the average points students earned for that criterion.
- Frequency Distribution: This table shows the percentage of students who reached each level of achievement for every criterion, along with statistical values including average, median, mode, and standard deviation.
Note: If there is no rubric attached to the assignment, this option will not be visible.