Grade Assignments Using Rubrics

Use rubrics to evaluate student assignments consistently, provide targeted feedback, and track student performance over time. Learn how to assess assignments with rubrics, add comments, and adjust total rubric points for individual students.

Evaluate Assignments with Rubrics

Evaluate assignments with rubrics from Assignment Center, Classes, Gradebook, or Calendar. Use Student view to assess one student at a time or Class view to assess multiple students.

For more information about assignment grading workflows, see Grade Assignments.

Before you begin

  • As you evaluate skills, the total score updates automatically.

  • You can save without completing the entire rubric.

  • Skills without evaluations count as zero.

Warning: After you begin grading with a rubric, you cannot edit or remove the rubric from the assignment.

Note: For schools using LTI: Grades entered from Turnitin are overwritten by Rubrics. In addition, grades don't pass back from Academics to Turnitin.

From the Assignment Center:

  1. In Faculty, select My Day, Assignment Center.

  2. Select the assignment name.

From a class page: 

  1. In Faculty, select Classes, then pick a class.

  2. Select Assignments, then the assignment name.

From Gradebook:

  1. In Faculty, select Classes, then pick a class.

  2. Select Launch gradebook.

  3. Select the down arrow below an assignment in the header row.

  4. Then select Go to assignment.

Tip: For information on entering grades via the gradebook, see Working with Gradebook.

From the Calendar:

  1. In Faculty, select Calendar in the top level menu.

  2. Select the assignment name, then More Details.

Evaluate with Rubrics

To display rubric skills, select Evaluate with rubric for one student. The rubric skills then appear for all students in the class.

  • In Student view, select Evaluate with rubric in the Evaluation panel.

  • In Class view, select the right side of a student's grade cell, then select Evaluate with rubric.

After the rubric skills appear:

  1. Select a proficiency level for each skill.

  2. Enter points within the allowed range for point range-based skills.

Tip: Select a skill name to open an evaluation panel with skill and proficiency level details.

To add comments:

  1. Select +Add comment.

  2. Enter the comment.

  3. Select Save.

Adjust Total Rubric Scores

Adjust a student's total rubric score without changing the points earned for individual skills.

  1. In Student view, select Edit next to the student’s score in the Evaluation panel.

    In Class view, select the right side of the student's grade cell. Under Evaluate, select Edit next to the student's total score.

  2. Select one of the following options:

    • Add to total

    • Remove from total

    • Mark score as zero

  3. Enter the number of points to adjust when applicable.

  4. Review the updated total in the preview.

  5. Select Apply.

Students and parents then see a message under the points earned inside the rubric that a manual adjustment has been made to the grade.