consistently demonstrates
effective and appropriate
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between ideas and paragraphs.
Organization is coherent and unified in support of the paper’s purpose and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate transitions between ideas and paragraphs. | Organization is coherent in support of the essay’s purpose, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs. | Organization is confused and fragmented. It does not support the essay’s purpose and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability. | A holistic rubric would not break down the essay's grading criteria with such precision. The top two tiers of a holistic essay rubric would look more like this:
- 6 = Essay demonstrates excellent composition skills including a clear and thought-provoking thesis, appropriate and effective organization, lively and convincing supporting materials, effective diction and sentence skills, and perfect or near perfect mechanics including spelling and punctuation. The writing perfectly accomplishes the objectives of the assignment.
- 5 = Essay contains strong composition skills including a clear and thought-provoking thesis, but development, diction, and sentence style may suffer minor flaws. The essay shows careful and acceptable use of mechanics. The writing effectively accomplishes the goals of the assignment.
Step 6: Revise Your Rubric
After creating the descriptive language for all of the levels (making sure it is parallel, specific and measurable), you need to go back through and limit your rubric to a single page. Too many parameters will be difficult to assess at once, and may be an ineffective way to assess students' mastery of a specific standard. Consider the effectiveness of the rubric, asking for student understanding and co-teacher feedback before moving forward. Do not be afraid to revise as necessary. It may even be helpful to grade a sample project in order to gauge the effectiveness of your rubric. You can always adjust the rubric if need be before handing it out, but once it's distributed, it will be difficult to retract.
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Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment
This article is for instructors.
In Assignments, you can create, reuse, view, grade, and share rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If you use scored rubrics, students see their score when you return their work.
Add or view a rubric
Rubric overview.
Number | Name | Description | Example |
| | The name of a criterion you're evaluating | |
| | A brief description of the criterion’s focus | |
| | Under a criterion, the title of a specific performance level. A word, phrase, letter, or number. | |
| | Under a criterion, a description of the expectations or characteristics for a specific performance level | |
| | The total points available for the rubric | |
| | The total points available for a criterion | |
| | The points available for a specific criterion level | |
Create a rubric
You can create up to 50 criteria per rubric and up to 10 performance levels per criterion. Before you can create a rubric, the assignment must have a title.
Important : Before you begin, link your Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals account to Assignments. For details, go to Create an assignment .
- Go to your learning management system (LMS).
- Click the course.
- Create an assignment. For more information, go to Create an assignment .
- (Optional) If you turned on scoring, next to Sort the order of points by , select how to view the criteria, either descending or ascending in value. Note : You can enter levels in any order, and rubrics automatically sorts the levels by value.
- Under Criterion , enter your first criterion. For example, enter Grammar , Teamwork , or Citations .
- Under Points , enter the number of points awarded for the performance level. Note : The rubric's total score automatically updates as you add points.
- Under Level , enter a level of performance. For example, enter Excellent , Full mastery , or Level B .
- Under Description , enter the performance expectations.
- To add a blank criterion, in the bottom-left corner, click Add a criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
- To copy a criterion, in the bottom-right corner, click Duplicate criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
- To save your rubric, in the bottom-right corner, click Save .
Reuse a rubric
You can reuse rubrics you previously created. You can preview the rubric you want to reuse, and then edit it in your new assignment. Your edits don’t affect the original rubric. To reuse a rubric, your new assignment needs a title.
- Go to your learning management system (LMS).
- Create an assignment. For more information, go to Create an assignment .
- (Optional) To reuse the rubric, click Select .
- To reuse the rubric, click Select .
See an assignment’s rubric
Share a rubric with export and import
- When you export a rubric , it saves as a spreadsheet in your Google Drive, in a folder called Rubric Exports . If you share the Rubric Exports folder with another teacher, they can import your rubric to their assignment.
- After you import a shared rubric , you can edit it in your assignment. Your edits don’t affect the original rubric. Don’t edit the shared rubric spreadsheet in the Drive folder.
Share a rubric with export
- Under Rubric , click the rubric.
- To share your entire Rubric Exports folder, right-click the Rubrics Exports folder.
- Click Send .
Import a shared rubric
- Go to your LMS.
- Click the course.
- (Optional) Edit the imported rubric in Assignments. Note : Don't edit the shared rubric spreadsheet in the Drive folder.
- In the top-right corner, click Save .
Edit or delete a rubric
Edit an assignment's rubric.
You can’t edit a rubric after you start grading with it.
Delete an assignment’s rubric
Note : You can’t delete a rubric after you start grading with it.
- To confirm, click Delete .
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Select Rubric. In the first column, select a course or account [1]. In the second column, locate and click the name of a rubric [2]. You can view the criteria and points in each rubric. To select a rubric for the assignment, scroll to the bottom of the rubric and click the Use This Rubric button [3].
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Creating a New Rubric 1. Open Rubrics. In Course Navigation, click the Rubrics link. 2. Add Rubric. Click the Add Rubric button. Note: If a rubric is added after an assignment has been graded, the score will still appear, and the rubric will be empty and can be completed.
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GradeMark options allow you to attach a rubric to an assignment. You can do this by selecting a rubric from the dropdown list. Alternatively, select Launch Rubric Manager to edit or create a rubric. Remember to save! Select Save and return to course or Save and display to complete your assignment.