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How to create and use rubrics for assessment in canvas.

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What is a Rubric?

Rubrics are used as grading criteria for students and can be added to assignments , quizzes, and graded discussions. If you are importing your rubrics from Blackboard, please note that the ratings will be flipped as Blackboard has rubrics criteria from lowest to highest points, left to right, whereas Canvas has rubrics criteria go from highest to lowest, left to right. Unfortunately there is no quick way to switch the criteria to go the other way, so you may need to edit the rubric manually to reflect the assessment accurately.

Notes: Rubrics cannot be edited once they have been added to more than one assignment. When you delete a rubric it will remove the rubric from all associated assignments in the course and delete any existing associated assessments.

How to Create a Rubric

1) Click on Rubrics in your Course Navigation Menu.

2) To add a rubric, click Add Rubric . To edit an existing rubric, click on it as it appears under Course Rubrics.

• Title – can be anything, but should usually be something associated with the assignment so you can easily find it later.
• Criteria – Criteria are the things that you will be determining your students’ grades on. For example, if the rubric were for an art project, criteria could include creativity, use of art materials, or relevancy to the prompt.

• Points – Rubric ratings default to 5 points. To adjust the total point value, enter the number of points in the Points field. The first rating (full marks) updates to the new total point value and the rest of the ratings adjust appropriately.
• +Criterion – Adds another criterium
• Find Outcome – Allows you to use a rubric that you have created before. If you want to use the criterion for scoring, click on the checkbox next to Use this criterion for scoring. If the checkbox is not selected, the point value will not be factored into the rubric and will not be displayed after the rubric is updated. Click the Import button and then click the OK button in the popup window to confirm.

4) Click Create Rubric .

How to Add a Rubric to an Assignment, Quizzes, and Discussion Boards

For the sake of this guide, the screenshots shown are using Assignments as the example. Please note that after Step 2, the process is the same for adding a rubric to assignments, quizzes, and discussions.

1) Click on Assignments, Quizzes, or Discussions in your Course menu.

2) Click on the name of the assignment, quiz, or discussion board to open it.

3) Click the Add Rubric button if adding to Assignments (left).

4) To choose an existing rubric, click on Find a Rubric .

In the first column, select the course or account. In the second column, locate and click the name of the rubric.

5) Click on Use This Rubric button.

6) To edit the rubric, click the pencil icon. To find a new rubric, click the magnifying glass icon. To remove the rubric from the current assignment, click the trash can icon.

Creating a New Rubric:

This is very similar to creating a rubric from scratch, however when attaching it to an assessment there are more options available.

• I’ll write free-form comments – If this option is selected, no ratings are used to assess the student and criterion values are assigned manually.
• Remove points from rubric – If this option is selected, no points are associated with the rubric, but students can still be rated using the rubric criterion.
• Don’t post Outcomes results – students will be able to see rubric and outcome results in the Grades and submission details pages, but results will not be posted to the Learning Mastery Gradebook.
• Use this rubric for assignment grading – if this option is selected, you can use the rubric for grading in SpeedGrader. ONLY appears for assignments and discussion boards – NOT quizzes.
• Hide score total for assessment results – students can still see the point values for each criterion, but the total score will not be shown at the bottom of the rubric. This option is only available if the rubric is not used for grading.

*Note: You can only reach these options if you create the assessment first and then add the rubric after.

Rubrics Help for Instructors

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Getting Started with Canvas Rubrics

• Last modification date Updated On February 16, 2022
• Categories: Canvas , Rubrics
• Categories: , Getting Started Grading

For grading some activities, you may find you want to use the Canvas Rubrics  tool to both quicken your ability to give students feedback, as well as communicate clear expectations to students. 

Be sure to enter criterion to rubrics in the proper order, as they cannot be reordered after they are added to a rubric.

The  Rubrics  button in Course Navigation is only meant for instructors and not available for students. Students will only see rubrics in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes to which they have been attached.

Find all of Canvas’ guides about Rubrics.

When getting started with Canvas Rubrics, learn to

• Add, edit, or delete a rubric in a course with  How do I manage rubrics in a course?
• Use a rubric for an assignment with  How do I add a rubric to an assignment?
• Use a rubric for a discussion with  How do I add a rubric to a graded discussion?
• Use a rubric for a quiz with  How do I add a rubric to a quiz?

Additional Resources

• CTI Resource:  Using Rubrics
• CTI Resource:  Rubric Development Guidelines
• Canvas Student Guide: How do I view the rubric for my assignment?
• Canvas Student Guide: How do I view the rubric for my external tool assignment?
• Canvas Student Guide: How do I view rubric results for my assignment?
• Canvas Student Guide: How do I view the rubric for my graded discussion?
• Canvas Student Guide: How do I view the rubric for a quiz?

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Rubriky použijte, pokud chcete při hodnocení používat konzistentní sadu kritérií. Často se doporučuje, aby studenti před odesláním úkolu viděli rubriku, aby měli představu, jak bude jejich zadání hodnoceno.

Rubriky v Canvas jsou velmi flexibilní. Můžete například vytvořit různé škály hodnocení pro různá kritéria namísto použití stejné škály pro všechna kritéria.

Rubriky v Canvas jsou obvykle svázány s výsledky, aby vám pomohly sladit všechny druhy úkolů a hodnocení ve vašem kurzu. Rubriky můžete stále používat nezávisle na výsledcích, což je dobrý postup, který vám pomůže dosáhnout konzistentnějšího a pro studenty přístupnějšího hodnocení písemných úkolů. Navíc, když máte rubriku, bude hodnocení pomocí SpeedGraderu ještě jednodušší!

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Přidání rubriky k úkolu

Vzhledem k tomu, že rubriky lze vytvářet nezávisle na úkolech, musí být konkrétně přidány do činností přiřazení. Pokud chcete své hodnocení zcela sladit pomocí rubrik, je to skvělý postup. Jinak také rubriky pomáhají udržovat vaše hodnocení spravedlivé a konzistentní. 

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H jak přidám do kvízu rubriku?

Tip bývalého uživatele Blackboard:  Rubriky plátna nelze přiřadit ke konkrétním esejovým otázkám v kvízu. K celému kvízu musí být přiřazeny rubriky plátna.

Pokud máte zájem spojit svůj kurz s výsledky kurzu, prozkoumejte informace o rubrikách a výsledcích:

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You may find the grading rubrics in many places in your Canvas course. Students usually get them in the following locations:

1. Grades for Each Assignment in Canvas: You can see the grading rubric for a particular assignment by clicking on it in the "Grades" section of your course. The assignment instructions may include a section on the rubric or the rubric may appear as a separate tab.

2. In the Assignment instructions: One of the assignment instructions that your course teacher may provide you is a grading rubric. Usually, the task description will link to a paper or webpage containing these criteria.

3. On the Assignment Page in Canvas: Usually found at the bottom of the page, the rubric may also be seen on the assignment page. For pupils who would rather have all the information they need readily available in one location, this is helpful.

Note that not every assignment will have a grading scheme. You may ask your course teacher whether there is a rubric available for a certain task. Furthermore, some teachers could provide students access to the grading criteria directly, or they can include it in the course curriculum or student handbook. Nonetheless, the grades section, the assignment rules, and the assignment page in Canvas are the most popular locations to locate assignment rubrics.  

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Learning outcomes in Canvas can be published at any level of the Canvas academic hierarchy--campus, school/college, department, or course. When outcomes at the department level or higher are incorporated into course rubrics to assess student learning, the results can be aggregated across all courses under the purview of the academic unit where the outcomes reside for purposes of longitudinal assessment, accountability, and program improvement. This document provides guidance on how to implement Canvas outcomes to support your assessment efforts.

Canvas outcomes make use of the academic hierarchy of accounts in Canvas, a branching organizational structure representing the university, its campuses, and their respective schools, colleges, and departments (see figure below).

• Level 1: At the top of the hierarchy is Indiana University.
• Level 2: Reserved for the nine IU campuses: BL, CO, EA, FT, IN, KO, NW, SB, and SE.
• Level 3: Beneath each campus are the accounts representing the schools and colleges on the campus. These accounts begin with the two-letter campus code, followed by the SIS academic group code for the unit, and ending with a three letter "GRP" suffix (for example, BL-ADMIN-GRP, CO-BUS-GRP).
• Level 4: These accounts correspond to the academic subject codes used by the courses offered through the parent school or college. Level 4 accounts begin with the two-letter campus abbreviation followed by the academic subject code (for example, BL-AERO, CO-EDUC). SIS courses are provisioned into the level 4 account that matches the campus and academic subject code in their course ID. For example, a course with the ID SP19-CO-EDUC-E201-18797 would be placed in the CO-EDUC account.

As soon as outcomes are created in a specific account within the hierarchy, they become available to any account or course that is a child or descendent of the account in which the outcomes were published. Outcomes published at the campus level, for example, can be incorporated into rubrics in any course offered on the campus, and the results can be aggregated at the department, school/college, and campus level. School or college-level outcomes, on the other hand, are only available to the courses and departments belonging to that school or college.

When creating outcomes, it's always best to place them in the account at the highest level to which they apply. In other words, campus-level outcomes should be created in the corresponding campus account, school and college-level outcomes should live in the associated school/college account, and so on. This approach will ensure that student performance results can be aggregated and reported upon by the academic units responsible for those outcomes at all relevant levels of the academic hierarchy.

Plan your outcomes assessment implementation

Before you begin to create outcomes for your unit, it's important to have a clear plan for how the outcomes will be organized, described, scored, promoted, and used to achieve the assessment goals of your unit as well as the academic unit(s) under your purview. This planning process often engages an assessment coordinator, assessment committee, or curriculum committee in consultation with the academic leadership of the unit. Topics and questions your planning group will need to consider are covered in the Canvas Outcomes Planning Worksheet. Use either of the links below to create a copy for your assessment team:

• Canvas Outcomes Planning Worksheet (Google Docs)
• Canvas Outcomes Planning Worksheet (Microsoft Word)

If you use the above worksheet to guide discussion and document your decisions, you'll have everything you need to start building your assessment framework in Canvas.

The Canvas Outcomes feature was designed on an embedded assessment model. In this model, outcomes are published by a campus, school, or department. Faculty then incorporate them as criteria in rubrics, which are used to grade assignments in their classes. A key benefit is that no extra work is required on the part of the student or the instructional staff. Outcomes are assessed as part of the normal grading process. Under this distributed model, however, the academic unit has very little control in terms of when and how outcomes are used, the rigor with which they are scored, the nature of the student work being evaluated, etc.

School and programs subject to specialized disciplinary accreditation often want greater control over the assessment process in order to meet the requirements of their accrediting body. Implementing a centrally managed assessment process requires considerably more planning and oversight and typically increases the workload of individuals responsible for evaluating student work. To decide which approach is the best fit for your unit's needs, use your completed worksheet and the lists of characteristics below.

• Instructors assess their own students in their own courses.
• Instructors determine which artifacts and outcomes are assessed.
• Assessment takes place in regular course sites as part of the regular assignment submission and grading process.
• Assessment coordinator or committee determines who evaluates student work.
• Assessment coordinator or committee determines which artifacts and outcomes are assessed.
• All assessment takes place in a dedicated assessment site.
• In addition to outcomes assessment, can be used to track student GPA, standardized test scores, completion of program requirement or milestones, etc.
• Blind evaluation (student identity hidden) of student work can be enforced.
• Two or more evaluators per student submission can be enforced.
• Assessment coordinator or committee can easily track individual and aggregate student performance over time.
• Students can easily review and be asked to reflect on their own intellectual development over time.
• Multi-campus collaborative programs can be accommodated.
• Aggregate assessment data is available in Canvas Gradebook and Learning Mastery Gradebook.

Before you begin implementation

Special permissions are needed in order to create outcomes and rubrics, as well as generate reports at the academic unit level in Canvas. IU has created the Outcomes Manager administrative role for assessment coordinators or others who will be responsible for overseeing the unit's outcomes implementation. See Administrative access to Canvas at IU for information about and instructions on how to request access as an Outcomes Manager.

Once outcomes or rubrics are published at the account level, they are immediately visible and available for use by instructors in your unit. After they have been used to assess student work, Canvas outcomes are difficult to change and they cannot be deleted. Therefore, it's important to get them right from the start. Be sure to share your plans with colleagues and seek the approval of the academic leadership for your unit before publishing anything in Canvas.

Create account-level outcomes and rubrics

General instructions on how to create and manage outcomes and outcome groups at the account level are available in the Outcomes section of the Canvas Admin Guide. The most labor-intensive aspect of creating outcomes is customizing the rating scale, mastery level, and mastery calculation method for each outcome. You can do this more quickly in Microsoft Excel; see Use Excel to create or modify outcomes in Canvas .

Like outcomes, rubrics published at the account level can be used in any course that is a child or descendent of the account in which the rubrics were published. Providing instructors with pre-defined rubrics containing the outcomes for your unit can save time on importing outcomes and creating rubrics.

To create an account-level rubric:

• Log into Canvas and navigate to the administrative account containing your outcomes set.
• In the account navigation menu, click Rubrics .
• Create a new rubric and give it a meaningful name (such as "Undergraduate Spanish Outcomes").
• Delete the default criterion added to the rubric.
• Use the Find Outcome option to select and add the outcomes from the account-level set that you wish to add to the rubric. After selecting each outcome, be sure to uncheck the option Use this criterion for scoring before clicking Import .
• When you are finished adding outcomes, click Create Rubric to save the rubric.

When an instructor attaches the rubric to an assignment in a course:

• The outcomes referenced in the rubric will automatically be imported into the course.
• The instructor can delete criteria from the rubric that are not applicable to the assignment.
• The instructor can add assignment-specific criteria to the rubric.

Once you've created your outcomes and rubrics, no additional setup in Canvas is necessary as long as your unit plans to use embedded assessment as the principal method of data collection. However, it's not enough to simply publish these assets in Canvas. If you want instructors to take advantage of them, someone (ideally your department head or assessment coordinator) needs to communicate clear expectations to faculty about how to locate them and when, where, and how they should be used. Otherwise, instructors who do happen to find them may use them in ways that aren't consistent with your assessment goals. You may also want to develop documentation for your faculty with instructions on how to find and make the best use of the outcomes and rubrics published for your unit.

Below is a list of Canvas Guides that can be shared with instructors who will be using account-level outcomes or rubrics to assess student work. You may also want to develop some custom documentation that provides specifics on how to locate and import the outcomes and rubrics for your unit.

• How do I find an existing outcome to add to a course?
• How do I align an outcome with a rubric in a course?
• How do I add a rubric to an assignment?

Implement a centrally managed assessment process

Academic units that want more control over the assessment process can conduct assessment activities in one or more Canvas sites designed for and dedicated to this purpose. This approach requires more time and effort on the part of students, evaluators, and program managers, but allows the unit to regulate the types of student evidence collected as well as how evidence is evaluated, and by whom. Another advantage is enhanced tracking and reporting afforded by both the Learning Mastery Gradebook as well as the standard Canvas Gradebook.

Many of the tools and features used for teaching in Canvas can be used for outcomes or program assessment. Unlike Canvas course sites, however, which are typically active for one term, your assessment site can remain open indefinitely, allowing you to collect and analyze assessment data over time. Since assessment requirements and practices vary widely from one discipline to the next, UITS recommends working closely with a consultant from your teaching center to design an assessment framework that best meets your needs. In general, to set up a Canvas site for assessment:

• Create a new Canvas site: This site will serve as the center of all assessment activity for your program. Set the expiration date for the site far out into the future (for example, January 1, 2030). For instructions, see Create a new Canvas course site or change the expiration date for a course you created .
• Open the Settings tool in the site, and click Feature Options .
• On the "Feature Options" page, toggle the "Learning Mastery Gradebook" option from Off to On . This will enable the instructor view of the gradebook.
• If you would like students to be able to track their own performance, toggle "Student Learning Mastery Gradebook" to On as well.

For the course navigation in Canvas assessment sites, UITS recommends some or all of the following:

• Home: Use the home page to provide a description of the purpose of the site and links to appropriate documentation if needed.
• Announcements You can use Announcements to communicate to site members, if desired.
• Modules: Use Modules in place of Assignments and Quizzes so that students will have one place and tool to view and participate in assessment activities.
• Grades: This provides access to both the standard and the Learning Mastery Gradebook.
• Outcomes: You can allow students to view the outcomes and their descriptions in the Outcomes tool, if desired; outcomes may also be visible in assignment rubrics and the Learning Mastery Gradebooks.
• Add your account-level outcomes: In order to use your account-level outcomes to assess student work, you'll first need to add them to the course site. For instructions, see How do I find an existing outcome to add to a course?
• Decide what types of evidence you want to collect: With your assessment committee, determine what types of artifacts you want to collect at what points in the program. Some programs are very prescriptive about the work that students submit (for example, signature assessments A,B, and C from courses X, Y, and Z), while others want students to make the selections in response to prompts that lay out the requirements.

As you set up each assignment, quiz, or survey for evidence collection and evaluation, also consider:

• Assignment/quiz/survey instructions: Provide students with detailed directions for what they are required to submit for the assignment and when it is due (for example, at the end of the sophomore year, after completing a certain course, etc.), as well as contact information in case they have questions. Also, if students are expected to submit work products created in specific classes, ask the instructors of those classes to remind students to make the submission.
• How do I add a rubric to a quiz?
• Blind evaluation: If you don't want evaluators to know the identity of the person they're evaluating, enable the anonymous grading feature in the assignment as described in How do I add an assignment that includes anonymous grading? In the assignment instructions, ask students to remove their names and other identifying information from their work before they submit it in the assignment. This feature is not available for quizzes.
• Multiple evaluators per submission: If your program requires two or more evaluators per submission, use the moderated grading feature in Canvas to set the number of graders and designate the person responsible for reconciling differences and posting the final scores. For instructions, see How do I add a moderated assignment to be graded by multiple reviewers? This feature is not available for quizzes.

To display performance descriptors in the gradebook (meets expectations, does not meet expectations, etc.) instead of point values, create a custom grading scheme in the course; see How do I add a grading scheme in a course? Then set the Display Grade as option in the assignment to Letter Grade and choose the custom scheme. Finally, since students won't be receiving a final grade in the assessment site, it's a good idea to check the box Do not count this assignment towards the final grade .

• How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
• Hiding evaluation results from students: If you don't want students to be able to see the evaluation results for all or specific assignments, mute them. See How do I use posting policies in a course?
• Program year: (Year One, Year Two, etc.) Used to organize submissions chronologically, making it easier to monitor progress over time
• Learning outcome: (Critical Thinking, Written Communication, Team Work, etc.) Used when students are expected to submit representative work for each outcome at specific points in their program; students may be required to upload specific work products or make their own selections
• Decision point: (Decision Point 1, Decision Point 2, etc.) Commonly used in education programs. Performance in a given decision point module determines whether students are ready to advance to the next stage of the program.
• Course: Used when students are expected to submit specific artifacts or representative work from specific courses in the program

If desired, module prerequisites and requirements can be added to control how students progress through the modules.

• Publish all assignments, quizzes, surveys, and modules: Before you start adding students, publish all of the elements in your assessment framework so they are available to students.
• Reporting: Grouping students by cohort, program year, concentration, etc. facilitates filtering by the characteristics in the standard and Learning Mastery Gradebook, as well as in unit level reports.
• Assigning evaluators: To distribute the evaluation workload, evaluators can be assigned to specific students by creating a section for each evaluator and adding their students to it. To prevent evaluators from seeing and assessing students in their group, limit their section privileges as described in How do I limit a user to only interact with other users in the same course section? Evaluators who are permitted to see all students can use section filtering in SpeedGrader and the Gradebook to narrow the list to their assigned students.
• Assignment differentiation: Student groups can also be used for assignment differentiation. For example, if students are grouped by entering cohort, the availability and due dates for assignment can be customized to reflect when students in each cohort are expected to complete the assignment.

When setting up sections in your assessment site, keep in mind that any member of the course can belong to multiple sections. For instructions on how to create ad hoc sections, see How do I add a section to a course as an instructor?

• Communicate expectations to students, faculty, and evaluators: Before you add users to your assessment site and at regular intervals thereafter, communicate with each audience (students, faculty who will be facilitating student submissions, evaluators, etc.) to let them know the purpose of the site and their role in supporting your unit's assessment strategy. Ideally, evaluators and faculty facilitators will already be aware of your assessment plans and have a clear understanding of what they need to do to ensure its success. Communications to students should explain when and how they are expected to interact with the assessment site. And of course, reminders are needed at specific points in your program. Student reminders can come from you or from faculty who have been tasked with facilitating the submission of specific artifacts produced in your curriculum.
• To add or move an individual user to a specific section, locate the user in the People tool, open the Options menu at the right, and choose Edit Sections .
• To add users to a section in bulk, in the People tool, click +People . Enter or paste the list of email addresses or usernames into the text box, and then select the role and section for the group. This method can be used to add new users to a specific section in the site, or to add existing users to another section.

See the People section of the Canvas Instructor Guide for instructions on other roster management features.

Tools for tracking and reporting

Tools for tracking and reporting on learning outcomes are available at the Canvas account level as well as in individual Canvas sites. Descriptions of these tools and links to documentation are provided below:

The Learning Mastery Gradebook provides summary and detailed student performance data for the outcomes used in the course. Using the mastery calculation method defined for each outcome, the gradebook assigns a proficiency rating to each student using a customizable color-coded scale. As with the standard Canvas Gradebook, instructors have access to a grid view (which can be filtered by section) listing all students in the course as well as an individual student view. For more, see:

• How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course?
• How do I view outcomes or student results individually in the Learning Mastery Gradebook?

For centrally managed assessment processes, the Canvas Gradebook shows the grade, score, or proficiency level earned by each student on each assignment or quiz in the assessment framework. The value in the gradebook represents the students' overall performance on each assessment task, whereas the Learning Mastery Gradebook gives performance information on individual outcomes. The gradebook can also be used to track evaluation progress since it indicated which assignments have been graded and which have not. For more, see the Grades section of the Canvas Instructor Guide .

The Outcomes Report lists the outcomes that apply to the selected student along with the aligned artifacts, number of attempts, latest score, and average percentage score. Available at both the course and the account level, this report can be accessed by finding or selecting the user with the Canvas People tool and navigating to the User Details page. For more, see:

• How do I view the outcomes results report for an individual student in an account?
• How do I view the outcomes results report for an individual student in a course?

The Outcomes Export is a CSV file that lists the outcomes and outcomes groups in the account where the report is run. This report conforms to the Outcomes Import Format and is especially useful for editing large outcomes sets in Microsoft Excel and importing the changes back into Canvas.

View a sample Outcomes Export report.

To generate the report:

• Navigate to your unit's account in Canvas.
• From the navigation menu, select Settings and then Reports to open the "Reports" screen.
• Locate the report named "Outcomes Export" and click Run Report .
• It may take some time for the report to be generated. Return to the "Reports" screen after a few minutes and look for a download link. Click the link to view and/or download the report.

For more, see How do I view reports for an account?

The Outcomes Results and Student Competency reports aggregate raw outcomes results data across all courses that use the outcomes published in the account. Whenever a student is assessed on an account-level outcome, a row with relevant information about the student, course, assignment, and outcome is added to the report. In addition to providing insights into student performance, the data in these reports can be used to generate a curriculum map showing which outcomes are emphasized and assessed in the courses that make up your program. Both the Outcomes Results and Student Competency reports are in CSV format and can be easily imported into Excel or statistical software for analysis.

• View a sample Outcomes Results report.
• View a sample Student Competency report.

The data elements available in each report are detailed below:

To generate either of these reports:

• Locate the report named "Outcomes Results" or "Student Competency", and click Configure .
• Select the desired term(s) and sort order, and then click Run Report .
• It may take some time for the report to be generated. Return to the "Reports" screen after a few minutes and look for a download link. Click the link to view or download the report.

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Rubrics are scoring guides to help you grade assignment submissions quickly and consistently. Canvas Rubrics consist of rows, representing the criteria to be assessed, and columns, which define the levels of performance (and associated score) for each criterion. You can incorporate learning outcomes into rubrics to assess your students' mastery of outcomes at the course, department, school, or campus level.

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• Communicate expectations and assess outcomes. Rubrics allow you to communicate performance expectations to your students while also aligning your course assessments with pre-defined learning outcomes .
• Create rubrics two ways. You can create your rubric directly in the assignment or in the Rubrics tab under Nagivation.
• Access other rubrics. To save time, you can use rubrics that you—or others—have previously created.
• Use Rubrics to grade in SpeedGrader. If you want to use a particular rubric to calculate the grade, be sure to select “Use this rubric for assignment grading."

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Using Rubrics for Grading in Canvas 

With finals just over a month away, it’s the perfect time to revisit how Canvas rubrics can make your grading life easier. We’ve talked before about some aspects of adding and using rubrics in courses. As a brief refresher, Canvas has excellent resources on creating and adding rubrics to assignments as well as creating and adding rubrics to discussions . We’ve also talked about how to add existing (already created in Canvas) rubrics to an assignment or discussion .  

Today we’re turning our attention to a setting that’ll make your grading life easier – using a rubric for assignment grading. You may think that you’re doing that by default, and in some ways, you are. The rubric is still tied to the assignment, and you can give scores and comments for all the criteria. But once that’s done and you click “save,” you still need to do the extra step of entering that rubric score in the “grade” slot.  

If you turn on “Use this rubric for assignment grading,” Canvas will automatically take your saved rubric total and enter it in the grade box – no extra steps from you!  

Turning on this setting is simple, but it does need to be done on the assignment/discussion level. For these steps, we’re going to assume that you’ve already added a rubric to the assessment.  

We’ll start by getting to the rubric itself and making it available for editing. For assignments, scroll down to the rubric and click the pencil icon in line with the rubric name. For discussions, click the three dots button (next to the “edit” button) in the discussion, select “add rubric,” then click the pencil icon in line with the rubric name. If you use the rubric in multiple assessments across your course, you’ll get a warning saying that Canvas needs to create a duplicate of the rubric so you can edit it. That’s completely okay – so click the “ok” button. With the setting we’re adjusting, Canvas won’t really create duplicates – that only happens if you change any of the criteria, descriptions, or points.  

Now that you can edit the rubric’s settings, scroll to the list of check boxes below the body of the rubric. Check the box for “Use this rubric for assignment grading,” then click “Update Rubric.”  

That individual assignment is now set to auto-populate the saved rubric score into the “grade” box when you’re grading. Repeat this process for any other assignments in your course using rubrics! 

If you have questions about the mechanics of rubrics, Canvas support will be able to assist you. You can access a live chat with them through the help menu in Canvas, or you can call x7905 and press option 1 for phone support. If you have questions about designing effective rubrics, please reach out to us via [email protected] . We’d love to work with you!  

Originally posted February 22, 2022.

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Using Embedded Pressbooks in Canvas

Sharmaine Regisford, she/her, Continuing Education Specialist, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle campus

Project Question

Learners often ask for list of resources from the course or how long they will have access to the material. How can I create “evergreen” course materials that learners can reference even after they complete the course?

This course intervention takes place in course 1 of 4-course certificate in e-learning and instructional design. The courses build upon each other and culminate in a capstone project. Learners have requested a list of course resources to refer to in successive courses.

Using UW Pressbooks, we provide the course content (not the assignments) openly on the web. Pressbooks offers book navigation features and search function in a mobile and assistive technology friendly interface.

In Year 1, created a PDF list of resources to share with students.

In Year 2, updated the course resources so the list was now obsolete.

In Year 3, updated the resources but also started a UW Pressbooks version of course content with all the resources and introduced to the course near the end (week 8) of the quarter.

Impact/Assessment

After revealing the course pressbook to learners, I was asked by one if he would continue to have access to it after the end of the course. I reassured him that all learners have access to the course materials even after their NET ID course access expires (typically 2 quarters after certificate completion).

Updating the Pressbooks version of course content allows the course to be “evergreen” whether embedded in Canvas or used stand-alone.

In addition, Pressbooks supports social annotation with Hypothesis and interactive widgets using H5P. Learners are encouraged to create an account and begin annotating the course text with a “sign-in” entry.

Use of the course pressbook is still in the early months of creation; the course pressbook has been accessed after the completion of the autumn quarter class from search engine visitors seven times and from the original course itself three times. These search engine and course visitors are not from the instructor/pressbook author and represent continued use of the resource.

Application

Instructors in other disciplines can also create UW Pressbook for their course content, including necessary course readings with citations. After the initial time spent in setup, maintenance is easy.

UW Pressbooks can also be password protected and use Hypothesis for social annotation.

Additional Resources

Using UW Pressbooks embedded in Canvas is a new innovation in my teaching practice and I hope to encourage others to use this method to keep their course materials current and open to learners for continued use.

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