Enabling a rubric for grading

[leigh-anne_hepb]

Can I enable a rubric for grading once I've already used it in speedgrader?  And where do I find the check box?  All my grades have been entered in speedgrader but not copying through to the marks page.

[kblack · Accepted solution]

Hi  @leigh-anne_hepb  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  This is a rather annoying thing, when re-using a rubric, that the specific checkbox for using the rubric for grading does not "stick."  A similar question was answered recently here: Enabling a rubric for grading .  Basically, you want to re-edit the rubric for that assignment,  but you can safely ignore the warning that Canvas tosses at you that you cannot edit a rubric already used.  You are technically not editing the rubric itself, but rather only an option that appears beneath it.  Namely, the option to Use this rubric for assignment grading.  Unfortunately, however, doing this after the fact will not help you with a current assignment if you have already started manually inputting scores/comments into the rubric.  You will have to manually input the grades, I'm afraid.  But you will want to keep this in mind for the future!

Also, I encourage you to vote "up" a Feature Idea that I found when assisting a faculty at my own institution who had this same issue occur:  https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/14910-default-to-use-this-rubric-for-assignment-grading .  It is a vote to just have that checkbox enabled by default so folks don't have to go through this each time they forget to enable it.

Hope this helps a bit, Leigh-Anne.

[kblack · Accepted solution]

Hi  @leigh-anne_hepb  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  This is a rather annoying thing, when re-using a rubric, that the specific checkbox for using the rubric for grading does not "stick."  A similar question was answered recently here: Enabling a rubric for grading .  Basically, you want to re-edit the rubric for that assignment,  but you can safely ignore the warning that Canvas tosses at you that you cannot edit a rubric already used.  You are technically not editing the rubric itself, but rather only an option that appears beneath it.  Namely, the option to Use this rubric for assignment grading.  Unfortunately, however, doing this after the fact will not help you with a current assignment if you have already started manually inputting scores/comments into the rubric.  You will have to manually input the grades, I'm afraid.  But you will want to keep this in mind for the future!

Also, I encourage you to vote "up" a Feature Idea that I found when assisting a faculty at my own institution who had this same issue occur:  https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/14910-default-to-use-this-rubric-for-assignment-grading .  It is a vote to just have that checkbox enabled by default so folks don't have to go through this each time they forget to enable it.

Hope this helps a bit, Leigh-Anne.

[HR_Lacy]

In re-editing the rubric, the checkbox still does not appear. I am only seeing these four: 

 I'll write free-form comments when assessing students

 Remove points from rubric

 Don't post Outcomes results to Learning Mastery Gradebook

 Hide score total for assessment results

[Ron_Bowman]

@HR_Lacy -

 I have the top 3 items you list, and then my view shows the box to check for use the rubric for grading which can be selected or unselected.  the 4th line you have shows up for me when I deselect the use this rubric for grading.  

As a troubleshooting attempt.  go to the rubrics link and create a test rubric with just one criteria.  then go to the assignment and select the test rubric for use on the assignment.  See if that rubric has the option to use the rubric for grading.  if it does, then it is something with the other rubric.  The only thing that comes to mind is if that rubric was copied over from a previous course.  If that is the case, I would go to the rubrics link and edit the rubric and change the name and then reassign it to the assignment.  

Let us know the results of any testing that you do.

Ron

[HR_Lacy]

I have set up other rubrics and seen the checkbox, so I think the problem is this is an imported rubric set up by another professor. I changed the name and the assignment automatically updated the name of the rubric. Still no checkbox. I deleted the rubric from the assignment, tried to attach a new rubric, but the assignment is still only giving me those four checkboxes. 

[Ron_Bowman]

@HR_Lacy -

Well it is beyond my abilities.  I'll tag @chriscas as he seems to know about some strange things on Canvas.  I think you are onto something with it being a rubric from a different professor, but I am not sure.

It might be something that needs to be sent to Canvas support to see if they can figure out what is happening.

Ron

[chriscas]

Hi @HR_Lacy and @Ron_Bowman,

So I can reproduce the behavior Lacy is describing if I set the assignment "display grade as" setting to "Not graded".  Lacy, can you let us know what your assignment "display grade as" setting is set to right now?

-Chris

[HR_Lacy]

Hello Coach,

The assignment type is "Graded Quiz". Where do I find "display grade as"? This is only the second Graded Quiz that I have scored this semester. I did use a rubric on the last one, but now I cannot recall if I entered the grades differently. I see there is a box at the top of the Quiz for a score; do I manually enter the rubric total in that box?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @HR_Lacy,

Ahh it's a quiz, I may have missed that part earlier!  As far as I know, the grading option of a rubric won't show up in classic quizzes because quizzes are graded by question (each question needs to have points given in SpeedGrader) and the rubric is an overall/mastery type thing for the whole quiz.  That may be something guides should call out in more places, but I'm 99% sure what you're seeing is the intended behavior.

-Chris