How to Grade an Assignment Using a Rubric

  1. Navigate to your course site and click Assignments in the Navbar.
  2. Select the down arrow next to the assignment and select View Submissions to start grading.
    arrow 2 pointing to view submission option
  3. Click either one of the three: the student’s name, the attached file (if any) or the Evaluate button.
    arrow 3 pointing to evaluate, student's name, and attached file
  4. On a student’s submission page, you can choose to annotate any submitted document (not shown). To begin using the rubric, click the expander tab on the rubric to see the score levels.
    arrow 4 pointing to rubric expander tab
  5. Assign scores by clicking on one of the levels in the criterion. If you need to assign a score that sits between two scores, click the score number and manually enter the correct score.
  6. Click Add Feedback button below a criterion to add feedback for that criterion, if you wish.​​​​​​ If you pre-populated your rubric with feedback for each level of each criterion, you you leave the feedback as is for the student to see, or edit it according to the individual student's work.
     box 5 contains criterion 1 content arrow 6 points to add feedback button
  7. Total Score will automatically sum up based on the levels assigned in the rubric.
  8. Overall Score level will be automatically assigned as well, according to how you set it up.
  9. If you need to manually adjust the Overall Grade, simply click into the Overall Grade box and change the value.
  10. Use the Overall Feedback box to leave feedback for the entire submission.
  11. Once grading is done, click Save Draft and move on to the next submission. Selecting Save Draft allows you to release feedback to all students once you have completed grading all submissions.
    box 7 contains total core content box 8 contains overall score content arrow 9 points to overall grade arrow 10 points to overall feedback editor arrow 11 points to save draft button
  12. To publish and release all submissions at once, go back to the View Submissions page shown in Step 2 and click Publish All found at the top.
    arrow 12 points to publish all button
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