Disaggregate scroes from rubric

[reaston]

I made a rubric with several categories.  For example: thesis statement, evidence, analysis, and conventions.  I graded a bunch of essays.  While I can get the overall average score for my essays, I want to know what category (thesis, evidence, etc) my students excelled in the most and which category they struggled the most in.  Is there a way to do that?

[rmurchshafer]

Ryan,

I don't know of any way to do that when your rubric is set up using Criteria.  But, if you instead have each criteria be an Outcome I think you'd be able to get this type of information.  The steps to set this up would be to first in your course create Outcomes that match the criteria you used in your Rubric.  Then when creating the Rubric, use the Find Outcome button to create it base on those outcomes.  The Learning Mastery Gradebook then will will you view your gradebook by outcome which is exactly what it sounds like you are wanting to do.  Below are some links which collectively can help you see how to do this.  

• How do I create an outcome for a course? 
• How do I align an outcome with a rubric in a course? 
• How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course from the Gradebook? 

If you don't see the Learning Mastery Gradebook as an option you might need to enable it in your course, and if you don't see it there you might need to have an Admin enable it at your school.  Check in your course under Settings, Feature Options to enable it if needed.  Here is a little more information about Feature Options https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12825-what-feature-options-are-currently-available-for-canv... 

Good luck,

Rick

[James]

reaston 

As  @rmurchshafer  mentioned, the only built-in way is through using outcomes. It can be done for non-outcome-criteria, but not through the graphical interface. You would need to download the rubrics for each submission using the Canvas REST API and then compile them into a usable result.

I wrote a Rubric Exporter script last August that downloads all of the rubric results and puts them into an Excel file. It works for rubrics that have points assigned, but I haven't tested it with outcomes or rubrics without points yet. For that reason, I haven't published it, but what you're asking about definitely can be done.

In January, I started adding statistics to the rubrics to find the mean, standard deviation, quartiles, or any other function you can use Excel to calculate. I even have it so that you can ask for the percent of students who scored a 70% (flexible) or higher or to give the average as a percentage of the possible points to make it easier to compare criteria with different point values. The driving force behind the decision to add statistics was because my wife wanted to do what you're asking about -- using rubrics to make informed decisions about how students are doing. Before then, I was just dumping the results to Excel and relying on knowing how to use Excel to find the statistics.

I work on it as I find time, which unfortunately isn't often enough, but my wife wants us to present about rubrics at InstructureCon in July, so if we get accepted, that's an impetus to finish it.