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To create a new Rubric or Grading Guide for an Assignment:

Step 1- Open the Assignment, and in the Actions menu (Gray gear clock the ⚙ icon) in the top right corner of the assignments page, click Advanced  click Advanced grading. The Advanced grading page will open. Under Change Active Grading Method, select Rubric or Grading guide.Note: If

If you are creating a new assignment, under Grade, from the Grading method drop-down menu, select Rubric or Grading guide. Click Save and Display and the Advanced grading page will open.

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Step 2- On the Advanced grading page, click Define new grading form from scratch. The Define rubric or Define grading guide page will open.

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Step 3- Enter a Name and Description for the grading form.

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Step 4- To add criteria (the specific elements to be graded): For a Rubric the rubric will start out with one blank criterion in a row. For a Grading guide, the Grading guide will start out with one criterion in a box.

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For a Rubric:

  • Select Click to edit criterion. A blank entry box will appear. Enter a description for the Criterion.

  • The following boxes represent Levels for rating student performance. Graders will select the level that best describes the student's performance for that criterion. For each level select Click to edit level to add a description. To edit the points awarded for each level, click the points value.

  • You must start with a level that has a point value of ZERO (eg., scale ranging from 0-3). If you do not include a "0" level, the rubric grade will not calculate correctly.

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To reorder criteria, click the up or down arrows.

  • Select Click to edit criterion name to add a Name for the criterion.

  • Below Description for Students, Description for Markers, and Maximum mark, select Click to edit to edit the fields.

  • To add additional criterion, click Add criterion.

  • To add preset comments you can add for your criteria when grading, click + Add frequently used comments.

Step 5- Select the Rubric options or Grading guide options for the assignment: These mostly control how much of the rubric your students can see and when; and for Rubrics, whether graders will have an entry box for additional text comments.

Step 6- When you have filled out all the criterion and definitions, click Save rubric/click Save marking grading guide and make it ready. You can also click Save as draft to save without having to complete the criterion and level definitions.

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Instead of defining a new grading form from scratch, you can make a copy of an existing Advanced grading form from any of your Moodle courses by choosing to use it as a template. You can then edit the copy to fit the assignment you are grading without affecting the rubric you copied.

Step 1- On your course page, click Turn editing on (green pencil icon , top right)click Turn editing on. The edit links and icons will appear.

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Step 2- To add a new Assignment:

In the Section of your course where you want the Assignment activity, click + Add an activity or resource then select Assignment and click Add. The Adding a new Assignment page will open.

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  • To use an Advanced grading form to grade an assignment already in the course:

    • Open the Assignment, and in the Actions menu, click Advanced grading. Skip to step 5 in these instructions.

Step 3- Configure settings for the assignment. From the Grading method drop-down menu, select Grading guide or Rubric.

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Step 4- Click Save and display. The Advanced grading page will open.

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Step 5- Click Create new grading form from a template. The Grading forms search page will open displaying templates shared by others which you have access to.

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  • To select a Grading form to use, click Use this template (at the bottom of the preview), a confirmation message will appear.Then click Continue to use the Grading form. The Advanced grading page will open to a COPY of the Grading form you used as a template. At this point the form is ready to use with your assignment.

  • To make changesclick Edit the current form definition. We highly recommend you rename the form (e.g. for the course and semester used). Otherwise, if you frequently reuse forms you can end up with multiple forms with the same name which might be edited differently.


    Note: Any edits you make at this point will affect only the Grading form associated with the current assignment.

Step 6- When you are done editing, click Save. You will return to the Advanced grading page for the assignment.

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Grade an Assignment with a Rubric or Grading Guide

Step 1- On your course page, click the link to the assignment.

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Step 2- On the Assignment page, click View/grade all submissions.

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Step 3- In the Edit column for a particular student, click Grade. The Grading & feedback page for that student opens showing a grading form below the student's submission. 

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Step 4- If using a Rubric:
For each Criterion:

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  • Enter feedback comments in the text box, or, if using Frequently used comments, click in the text box, then click a Frequently used comment.

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  • Enter a numerical score.

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Step 5- If Feedback Comments are enabled in the Assignment Settings, you can also give general comments on the entire submission in the Feedback comments entry box below the rubric.

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Step 6- When you are done grading click Save changes or, to grade the next student's submission, click Save and show next.

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