How do you export a rubric?

[m_weintraub]

There are good answers for importing a rubric from excel, but is there any way to do the reverse?

Cutting and pasting from my browser is something I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks.

   Mike

PS: I apologize if this is a duplicate post - I did try to find it...

[James]

 @m_weintraub  

Are you wanting to export the rubric itself or the values in the rubric?

I once started to combine about four of my rubric scripts into one and was going to add the functionality to export a rubric so that it could be edited and re-imported with my script to import rubrics. I got sidetracked. In August, I wrote a script that would export the values from a rubric and set up the framework to export the contents of the rubric, but never finished it.

One thing you might be able to do is use the API to obtain the rubric, then copy/paste the content into a JSON to CSV converter.

[m_weintraub]

Hi James.

I was just trying to avoid losing the rubrics I created because I was treating the rubric as an answer key. It was the name value pairs I didn’t want to lose.

Mike

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[dspiel]

@James first.. THANK YOU for all you do. Second yes having the ability to download just the rubric into a spreadsheet would be extremely helpful.  That way using your upload technique would make it easy to change an existing one to fit another course or help give a starting structure for new staff to start off with?

[James]

@dspiel 

I had planned on writing an export routine that would give you something that could be brought back in with the import routine. I even started a major rewrite of my rubric routines, trying to organize them better and write cleaner code (I'm a better programmer now than I was then).

Along the way, I realized that I needed to change the order of the columns in the rubric importer script if I wanted to add the capability for the long descriptions. I should really start with the point value and then the description. That paused my export routines since I didn't want to write something that was incompatible. It's now been a couple of years since I started that rewrite. I'm really great at starting things, but if I don't finish it right away, then life and my real job tend to get in the way and they never get finished.

[dspiel]

As we often reference @James as being the Canvas God and how helpful your input is, your life and job come first.  Your work is appreciated more than you can ever imagine but that balance has to be made for sanity.