Creating a Rubric

This article describes how you can create a rubric in your course.

Navigate to the Outcomes page in your course.
Click Manage Rubrics in the upper right.
Click Add Rubric in the upper right.
Add a Title to your rubric – preferably one that is clearly associated with an assignment.
By default, one criterion entry is automatically added. You can edit this criterion by clicking on the pencil icon.
Add a criterion by clicking the + Criterion button.

Note: Criterion cannot be reordered after they're added. Make sure you add them in the order you want to see them appear.

For each criterion, add a Short Description and a Long Description.
By default, each rubric rating represents a single point value. If you want rubric ratings to represent ranges of points, click the Range checkbox.
You can add more rating blocks by clicking the blue + icon in between each rating.
You can edit the possible points for each criterion in the Points column.
Tip: If you want to add an outcome as a criterion, you can click Find Outcome, ensure that Use this criterion for scoring is checked, then click Import.
Click Create Rubric.

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