Use of multiple rubrics

[BobbieJeanKoen]

We are having an issue with professors who need to use more than one rubric to rate an assignment. Our goal is to have faculty use a university-wide rubric to rate an assignment using the Learning Mastery gradebook (Outcomes). However, some professors have their own rubric they like to use for grading the work using the Traditional gradebook (numerical grade). The problem seems to be that they believe if they remove their grading rubric to attach the university one, they will lose their previous grades from their Traditional gradebook. We have been unable to replicate this and wondered if anyone else had noticed this as a problem. Any insights here will be greatly appreciated.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @BobbieJeanKoen,

What we do is instead of trying to provide a separate rubric is to give teachers the instructions to add the individual account-level outcomes to their course, the insert those outcomes into their own rubrics (deselecting the option to use them for scoring).  This way you can collect outcomes/mastery data but still allow teachers to use their own grading rubrics/criterion.

I hope this info helps!

-Chris

[BobbieJeanKoen]

Hi chriscas, 

Thanks so much for clarifying this process for me. The university-wide rubrics are entered administratively above the course level and are imported to each course for use, just as you indicated. So, there should be no loss of data if a personal rubric is removed from an assignment and the university-wide one is attached?

But now I have another question: if an assignment has parts of a professor rubric and the university-wide rubric attached, is traditional scoring possible or only outcomes/mastery scores? Don't professors have to grade a piece of work twice- once with their course rubric and once with the university-wide one to get both types of scores? 

I really appreciate your expertise!