Rubrics in Moodle allow instructors to use criteria-based assessment forms to grade student work consistently, quickly, and transparently. If you haven’t already you need to enable and create your rubric for your assignment or forum.
Setting up rubrics in both assignments and forums are the same, but how they function and how you grade is different. With Assignments the rubric will display on the submission page for students, if you have enabled that option. Also when you grade you will see the rubric as a table in the grading window to select the level for each criterion.
Enter the course you wish to grade in.
Click the Assignment link.
Click the Grade button.
Click the funnel button if you wish to filter the students:
- No filter: Will show all students regardless of their submission status.
- Not submitted: Will show students that have not added a submission, as well as students that have their submission saved as a Draft.
- Draft: Will show all students that have added a submission, but still have their submission saved as a Draft because you require students to click the submit button.
- Submitted: This will display students who made a submission- regardless of weather you have already graded it. This does not include drafts.
- Requires grading: Will only display students who have made a submission that has not been graded. This does not include drafts.
NOTE: This is ideal for detecting those who have resubmitted an assignment after you have graded their first submission!
Review the student’s submission:
- Use the PDF editor (that automatically converts most files into PDF and displays them for your in-line editing)
OR
- Click the File Submission link to view/download a student’s submission file.
If the view is too narrow you can toggle which pane dominates the screen.
NOTE: On a smaller screens the PDF editor pane will appear at the top and the submission information pane will be below.
Grade each criterion in your rubric by:
- Clicking on the level you want to assign for the criterion.
- Provide feedback for the criterion, if you have it enabled.
NOTE: If you don’t select a level for all criterion your grade will not be saved.
If you wish you provide other feedback and have it enabled in your Assignment Settings you can:
- Upload a file to the Feedback files area.
- Enter feedback in the Feedback comments area. You can type in written feedback as well as record video or audio feedback using the proper text editor buttons.
- Add inline comments, marks, stamps, shapes and more via the PDF editing interface.
When satisfied, click the Save and show next button.
NOTE: If you do not want the student to receive an email notification of the grade change un-check the Notify student checkbox at the bottom.
It will automatically move you to the next student.
NOTE: If you have it set to filter the assignments that Require grading you will get an error message when you reach the last student because there are no more students that require grading.
To use a rubric in a forum you need to enable Whole Forum Grading. Unlike an assignment the rubric will not appear as a table, and it will not show to students in the main discussion page. If you have enabled it, they can view the rubric before posting by clicking on the View grades button. However, we recommend you add the rubric to the description for the Forum so students can easily access before posting.
Enter the course you wish to grade in.
Click the Forum link.
Click the Grade users button.
All posts made by the student will appear in the left portion of the page.
If context is needed to grade, click the View parent post link or View discussion button.
Grade each criterion:
- Select the appropriate level for each criterion.
- Provide Additional feedback for each criterion, if you have it enabled.
Verify the Notifications option is correct.
NOTE: The default notification option is determined when you add a forum to your course.
Click the Save button at the top-right corner of the page.
Use the arrows to navigate between enrolled students.
NOTE: Use the magnifying glass if you want to grade a particular student.
Click the Close button in the top-right corner once all students have been graded.