Management > Rubrics Page

Rubrics Page- Manage Rubrics

How to manage your rubrics, including: Copying, deleting and changing details.

Copy Rubrics

Underneath the list of rubrics on the Rubric Tab, you will find the Copy Rubrics link.

This link gives you a list of current rubrics (see below). You can copy as many of these as you want by putting a check next to each rubric you want and clicking OK.

This is a real time-saver when it comes to authoring new rubrics, if rubrics are very similar. There is no need to copy and paste an entire rubric in order to make a few key modifications to create a brand new rubric for a new assignment.

Deleting a Rubric

Accessible from the main rubrics tab, the Delete icon allows you to permanently delete the rubric from the list.

Caution: Deleting a rubric that has already been used for assessment in a given evaluation period will invalidate statistical analysis.

Changing a rubrics details

On the main Rubrics Tab, click the Edit tool (see above), which will show you a list of current Rubrics in table format with column headings. Care should be taken here. If you radically alter a rubric that has already been used for assessment, you will invalidate the statistical analysis of the results.

The Edit tool will take you to a simi liar screen to the Add Rubric screen, and it's from here that you can edit the details of your rubric:

Here are some things to bear in mind when changing the details of your rubrics:

Rubric Name: This is the name of the assignment to which the new rubric will apply.

Description/Rationale: You may leave this blank. If you do fill it out, you will be providing the institution's rationale for the importance and relevance of the assignment to the standard. When work samples are saves to the "Library" some views (addresses on the Internet) will be seen "By Assignment". If you fill out this box, an external viewer or assessor will see a live link for the assignment name. When clicked they can then view why the institution added this assignment to the requirements for the ePortfolio.

Assessment Regime: This is important. It tells the software how who and how something is to be assessed. There are several you can choose from.

• Candidate to Choose Assessor: The candidate chooses from a list of assessors who is to receive the work submitted for evaluation.
• Assess Manually (no artifact). The candidate's advisor will be assessing a range or cluster of performance tasks already evaluated by assessors, and adding a new global assessment (a mark that does not have an artifact associated with it). This will then be tracked and reported with all other ePortfolio assessments.

Department: You must first have created departments in ePortfolio to use this feature. Departments can have their own rubrics. Students will not be offered rubrics assigned to other departments, and the various lists and checkboxes will only include relevant rubrics. Sub-administrators and assessors will only see results from their own departments rubrics, or from rubrics which have not been assigned to a department.

Criterion 1(to 8) (see the image above): The default for the number of criterion is 7. This can be increased or decreased from the Default Criterion option on the first screen of the Rubrics tab.

Give the first assessment criterion a title. It should be a very short phrase.

Common Description: State here the expectations for this criterion. You may just type the description (pasting it from a word processed document).

Weighting in Summary Score: You must enter a number in this box, or leave the default value of "1" in place. If all criteria are weighted as "1", then they will all be given equal weight in the summary score. If you give a criterion a weighting of "2", the software will double the value of the score given to that criterion in the summary score.

Level 1(to 4) (see above): In a single short statement give each level of performance a title. If you have set up data presentation labels in the main screen, these values will have already been set up, and cannot be changed. Enter a short phrase or even just a word for each criterion level, as shown below:

Score: If you have decided to use percentages across all rubrics, you must give each level a percentage score. For example:

• Level 1: Unacceptable (20%)
• Level 2: Acceptable (65%)
• Level 3: Competent (75%)
• Level 4: Exemplary (95%)

If you have decided to use numeric scores across all rubrics, you should give each level a number. A mark of "0" (zero) is NOT acceptable in this case. These are just statements of the level at which the candidate is performing. ePortfolio requires that you assign a percentage or numerical grade to each level in order to do later statistical analysis.

Description: In this case, you are describing the expected performance requirements for each level of performance. These "look-fors" help assessors distinguish between one level of performance and another when they are assessing. The descriptions should be brief, but specific, so that all assessors will apply the same criteria.

Advanced Form: The link to the advanced form at the bottom of the page is useful if you have complicated rubrics. The default settings are recommended when designing new rubrics, but it is possible to create many more criteria and levels should you wish. The advanced form let's you:

• Develop up to 40 criteria.
• Have up to 10 levels of attainment within each criteria.
• Add a 'Not Applicable' choice to the rubric

Special Case Criteria- Not Applicable & Met/Not met Criteria Rubrics have a 'Not Applicable' choice for each performance level for disregarding a criterion. You may also want to create a rubric where the criterion is either met or not. These a described in more detail here.

Management > Rubrics Page