Rubrics

Creating a rubric on Rubistar is a piece of cake. I wish I'd found out about the site a few months ago - it would have saved me a lot of time!

Rubrics are a tool that educators use to assess student performance. When shared in advance, rubrics can be used to communicate expectations for an assignment to students and their parents. Once assignments are submitted, a rubric provides educators with a standard assessment tool for evaluating those assignments.

Making a rubric on Rubistar was simple. First, I created an account, a step which took less than three minutes. Second, I selected the type of rubric I was interested in creating (for this activity, I chose an essay rubric). Third, I selected a few areas that I wanted to assess with the rubric. Finally, I saved and downloaded the rubric to my computer. In working through this final step, I learned that as a Mac user I had to switch from Safari to Firefox in order to save my rubric as an Excel file.

The next step was to drag and drop the Excel file version of my rubric to my Google drive. You can view my rubric in Google Docs by clicking here.

Relationship to Standards - the Rubrics exercise relates well to the following standards: 3(a) in that the use of Rubistar demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies; 3(c) in that tools like Rubistar allow educators to communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students and parents (parents can view rubrics saved to Google Docs); and 3(d) in that the use of Rubistar models the use of current and emerging digital tools to evaluate and support learning.