Faculty Guide :: Create your own rubrics

Instructions to create rubrics in LiveText that you can use to grade your students' documents:

1.      Click the [Create] button when you are at My Work page, and select 'Document' from the dropdown menu.
 

2.      You should be in the page titled “Create Document”. Follow these steps to create an assessment:

a.       Select Assessment as the document type on the document chooser page.

b.      Select any of the options as the template type. Look at the outline on the right hand side of the page for each option, and select the one that best fits your requirements.

c.       Enter an Assessment Title and an optional Assessment Description. For the title, try to include date, semester, course or project name to track revisions and copies of the document.

d.      Click the [Create Document] button at the bottom of the screen.
 

3.      You should now be in the assessment page that you just created, with all sections listed. Scroll down to the rubric and click on the corresponding edit link on the right. (Note: If you want only the rubric, you can delete all other sections)
 

4.      You should be in the Edit RubricMason™ page. Follow these steps to change the existing rubric to match your design:

a.       Change the title of the rubric to reflect the assessment purpose.

b.   Select the dropdown menu 'Choose a set of levels', and click on the levels (column headings) you want for the rubric.

• You can change the column headings by clicking your mouse in the name and typing the desired heading in the box that appears.

• You can also add more columns using the [Add] button to the right of column headings. Having added a level, you can click in the name to edit its properties.

• You can delete a particular column by clicking in the name of the column and clicking the [Delete] button in the box that appears.

• NOTE the points assigned to the different columns. You can change those points to change the impact the level has on the overall score. The minimum points possible is one.

c.   To start entering the objectives, click the [Add] button to the left of the rubric table, below the column headings. Click in the name of the objective to set its properties.

• Change the name of the objective and make it descriptive. For example, "Spelling and grammar".

• Assign weight to the objective. For example, type 25 if the objective is worth 25% of the assessment.

• Position determines the row number for that objective in the rubric table.

• Click the [Add] button for additional rows. You can add as many as you like.

d.      Hit the [Save] button to save the rubric grid.

e.   Double click in a cell of the rubric table to enter the criteria description. Type the content in the box that appears. Repeat for all cells of the rubric.

f.        Click the [Save] button at the bottom of the table, and hit [Finish].
 

5.      You are done creating the rubric! You can add content to other sections of your assessment.

Note:

If you want to post your rubric for students and teachers to use, you will have to share it with your program coordinator as an Editor. The program coordinator would have the privileges to post it as a template.