Working with Rubrics

Version: Kora Courses, April 14, 2023 or later

Permissions required: Faculty

Ways to work with Rubrics

Faculty members can work with rubrics in the following ways:

• Associate - Rubrics can be used to assess both program/institutional and course-based learning outcomes. You can customize which rubric to use by associating the rubric with the outcome.
• Create - Faculty members can create rubrics that can be used to assess learning outcomes they have created for their courses. However, they cannot create rubrics for program or institutional outcomes.
• Import - Faculty members can import rubrics from any source, whether course-based or institutional/program-based.
• Edit - They can edit their own rubrics. They can't edit someone else's or institutional/program outcomes.
• Delete - They can delete their own rubrics, but not those of others.

Associate Rubric with Outcome

• Hover over the outcome and click “Outcome info [font awesome ‘i’]” (1).
• Click “Associate a rubric with this outcome” (2)
  
  
• Associate a rubric using one of the following options
  
• Create a new rubric (3). 
• Import from Classic (4). 
• Select an existing rubric (5).

• The associated rubric is displayed under "Associated Rubric." (6).

Create Rubric

• Faculty members can create course outcomes. However, they cannot create rubrics for program or institutional outcomes.
  

• Add the outcome to an assignment.
  • For more information about adding outcomes to assignments, please see “Add, edit, or create Outcomes.”
• Hover over the outcome and click “Outcome info [font awesome ‘i’] ” (1).
• Click “Associate a rubric with this outcome” (2).

• Click “Create new rubric” (3) 

• Enter a rubric name.
• Enter a rubric description.
• Add columns (8) or delete them (4) as needed.
• Add rows (7) or delete them (6) as needed.
• Reorder rows (5).

Add Rubric content

• Enter labels and point values for each column (9).
• Enter labels and tags (optional) for each row (10).
• Enter rubric cell descriptions (11).
  
  
  

Set Rubric options

• Click “Options” (12).
• Set whether column headers will contain a label and number or number only (13).
• Set whether the highest value column will be on the right or left (14).
• Set whether the rubric score will use sum or average (15).
• Set a passing score (16).
• Set whether rows will be weighted (17).
• Enter the rows’ weights (18).
• Click “Save” when the rubric is complete (19).
  
  
  
  
  

Import Rubric

• Faculty members can import rubrics either from course-based or institutional/program-based.
  
• To reuse an existing rubric, you can import it.
• Rubrics can be edited as part of the import process.
• Add the outcome to an assignment. 
  • For more information about adding outcomes to assignments, please see “Add, edit, or create Outcomes.”
• Hover over the outcome and click “Outcome info [font awesome ‘i’]” (1).
• Click “Associate a rubric with this outcome” (2).

• Follow the appropriate set of instructions below.

Import from Digication Kora

• Hover over an outcome and click “Outcome info [font awesome ‘i’]” (3). 
• You can search for a relevant outcome if one does not appear in the list automatically (4).
• Preview the rubric (5).
• To import the rubric, click on the name (6).
  
  
  
  
• Make any changes desired to the rubric (7).
  
  For more information about working with rubric elements and options, please see “Create rubric” earlier in this article.
  
  
• Click “Save” (8).
  
  
  

Import from classic Digication

• Click “Import from classic” (9). This only applies to users who have previously used the Classic version of Digication.
  
  
  
  
• Search for a rubric (10) if needed, then click “Import” (11).

• Make any desired changes to the rubric (12), then click “Save” (13).
  
  
  
• For more information about working with rubric elements and options, please see “Create rubric” earlier in this article.

Edit Rubric

• Faculty members can edit their own rubrics. They can't edit someone else's or institutional/program outcomes.
• Add the outcome associated with the rubric to an assignment.  
  • For more information about adding outcomes to assignments, please see Please see “Add, edit, or create Outcomes.”
• Hover over the outcome and click “Outcome info [font awesome ‘i’]” (1)
• Click “Edit” (2),

• In “Edit Associated Rubric,” next to the rubric you want to edit, click “Edit” (3).
  
  
  
• Make the desired changes to the rubric (4).
  • For more information about working with rubric elements and options, please see “Create rubric” earlier in this article.

• Click "Save" (5).
  
  
  
  

Delete Rubric

• Faculty members can delete their own rubrics, but they cannot delete rubrics created by others.
  
• Select the rubric to delete and then click “Edit” (1).
  
  
• Click "Edit" (2).
  
  
  
  
• Click “Delete rubric and related assessment data” (3) and confirm (4).