Grading with Rubrics

Relevant to: faculty and staff

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Introduction

In Brightspace, it is possible to manually grade longer assignments with an analytic rubric, for long answer and essay questions. This article will walk you through the manual grading process with an analytic rubric. Please note it is assumed that you already have analytic rubric(s) created in your course.

Assignments, discussions, and grade items can have multiple rubrics attached. However, only one can be used as the grading rubric, which will be tied to the grade in the gradebook.

Grading with a Default (Single) Rubric

While grading activities, if you select an analytic rubric with multiple criteria, you must score it manually. This type of assessment can be useful if you need to make an informed judgment when grading submissions such as long answers and essay questions. Here is how to manually grade an assignment with an analytic rubric:

  1. Navigate to the Course Homepage.
  2. Click Tools on the navbar.
  3. Click Quick Eval.
    • Note: For more information about Quick Eval, please review the Using Quick Eval article.
  4. Click on the Student Name associated with the assignment/discussion you wish to grade.
  5. Click on the Rubric you wish to use for grading; under Rubrics field.
  6. Fill in the Associated rubric.
  7. Click Save as Draft if you wish to delay publishing the grade until later or Publish to have the grade entered into the gradebook.

Grading with Multiple Rubrics

You have the option to change/choose which rubric will be used as the grading rubric when completing the evaluation. It can be changed at any time until grades are published. Students will see the feedback provided in all attached rubrics.

  1. Navigate to the Course Homepage.
  2. Click Tools on the navbar.
  3. Click Quick Eval.
    • Note: For more information about Quick Eval, please review the Using Quick Eval article.
  4. Click on the Student Name associated with the assignment/discussion you wish to grade.
  5. Click on the Rubric you wish to use for grading; under Rubrics field.
    • Be sure the correct rubric is selected in the ‘Grading Rubric’ drop-down.
  6. Fill in the Associated rubric.
  7. Click Save as Draft if you wish to delay publishing the grade until later or Publish to have the grade entered into the gradebook.
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