You use a rubric to assess student performance in a reliable, transparent and consistent way. When creating a rubric you define criteria groups, criteria and levels. You use a criteria groups to bundle criteria that belong together.

For example, if you create a rubric to assess essays you can create criteria groups for Content, Resources and Language criteria. Within the criteria group Language can then create the criteria Spelling and Grammar, Sentence Structure and Academic Language. Finally, you define the levels which students can score for each criterion, for example Level 1: Insufficient, Level 2: Sufficient and Level 3: Good.

• Navigate to Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
• Click on Course Admin.
• Click Rubrics.

You will navigate to the rubrics homepage, where you will find an overview of all rubrics you have created.

• Click New Rubric.

1. Name the rubric.
2. Three default settings are indicated in the top bar. You choose: 
   • whether it is an holistic or analytical rubric using Type;
   • the manner in which points are awarded using Scoring:
     • No Score: no points.
     • Points: a combination of text and points (for example: Good and 75 points). Note that this option is only available for analytical rubrics.
     • Custom Points: each criterion is awarded with its own amount of points. For example: the performance levels are defined as average, sufficient and good. Each level of the criterion 'Spelling and grammar' could be worth ten, twenty or thirty points, and the levels of the criterion 'Originality' could be worth ten points, sixty points or ninety points, making this criterion three times as valuable as the criterion 'Spelling and grammar'. Note that this option too is only available for analytical rubrics.
     • Percentage: each level is awarded a percentage. For example: Level 4 is 75%. Note that this option is only available for a holistic rubric.
   • whether the levels go up in points or go down with Reverse Level Order.
3. Give the criterion group and levels in the top row a name.
   Note: in the beginning you have one criteria group with three rows and four columns by default.
4. Use the plus icons left and right of the levels to add levels.
5. You can alter the amount of points for each individual level.
6. Click on the waste bin icon to delete a level.
7. For each criterion you can add a description and possibly a specific feedback for that criterion. 
8. On the right you will see the amount of points a student can receive for each criterion
9. Under Initial Feedback you can add possible criterion-specific feedback. Note that this feedback will not be displayed in the general feedback.
10. Click on the 3 dots next to the criterion to copy or delete a row (criterion)..

You can add new criteria to the group at the bottom of a criteria group. You can also add new criterion groups under a criterion group .

1. At the bottom of a criterion group you can add criteria to the group. Click Add Criterion to do this. Then you can add a name and description to the new criterion. You can add as many criteria as you need.
2. You can add a new criteria group by clicking on Add criteria group.
   Note. You cannot change the name of the Criteria group when you add a Criteria group. You can delete a Criteria group by selecting Delete Criteria group via 3 dots under the name of the Criteria group .
3. At the bottom of the rubric you will see the maximum number of points that can be achieved (=total of all criterion groups) for the entire rubric.

The Overall Score is located separately below each of the criterion groups. Here you can specify the performance levels based on the score the student can achieve in total.

1. For each level, enter how many points a student much achieve to accomplish that level. Note that the number of levels does not depend on the number of levels in the rubric - it can consist of more or fewer levels. The performance level will show to the students how many steps they can improve, but does not determine the grade for the assignment. The Overall Score is separate from the Total Score, with the Total score determining the assessment. It only indicates to the student on which level they performed.
2. The plus icons allow you to add levels. You can remove levels using the waste basket icon.
3. You can enter feedback for each level (in the example, students can read what they have to do to reach a certain level, and what can be done to reach a higher level the next time).
4. Click Options to open more settings.

1. Select whether students are able to see the rubric:
   • Rubric is visible to students:students can always see the rubric as soon as they can see the activity the rubric is linked to.
   • Rubric is hidden from students:students cannot see the rubric.
     • Include rubric feedback in overall feedback: if you select this option students will not only get to see their grade, but also their scores for different criteria. However, they will not get to see the rubric itself.For example: Question - the question is formulated clearly, but a little too broad.
   • Rubricis hidden from students until feedback is published: students can only see the rubric if you have published the feedback for the activity the rubric is linked to.
2. Select Hide Scores from students if you do not want to show the scores to students.
   Students can now see the levels and with feedback at what level they scored per criterion, but not what score they get for a certain level and what the total score is..
3. If necessary, provide the rubric with a short description.
   Note: this description is not visible to students.
4. Select whether you want to connect the rubric to Competencies and/or the ePortfolio. If you select these options, you can assess items within these components with the rubric as well.
   Note that the rubric is automatically saved, so you do not have to save it manually.

1. Click on the arrow next to Edit Rubric and then click Preview to see what the rubric looks like in that moment. The preview will open a new window.
2. On the right you will see Saved: this means the progress is saved.
3. A new rubric will automatically be set to Published. This means it is available to connect to for example an Assignment or Discussion. Click on the arrow to change the status:
   • Draft: you cannot connect the rubric to an activity yet (and thus not use it to assess an activity).
   • Published: you can connect the rubric. Note that you can no longer alter the name, description, levels and criteria of the rubric once it has been connected!
   • Archived: the rubric does not appear in the standard search results and is not available for a connection. After filing the existing connections will remain intact.

You can always edit existing rubrics from the rubrics homepage. However, you can only edit those rubrics that have not been linked to an Activity. When you have a linked rubric you can still change the visibility of the rubric.

• Click the name of the rubric. You will navigate to the Edit Rubric page. Here you will find the same options you have when creating a new rubric. 
• Click the arrow next to the name of the rubric to open a pop-up menu.
• You can print the empty rubric by clicking Preview in the quick menu and then clicking Print Rubric.