Using rubrics for grading in Canvas.

[MichaelBurville]

Hi there

Can someone please help me clarify how a canvas rubrics work with peer reviewed assignments.

I would normally use a rubric in Canvas with 'use this rubric for assignment grading' selected.

However,  I am setting an assignment up as including peer reviews for the first time.

I see in the guides for peer review that if a rubric is included in a peer reviewed assignment students have to use it to complete their review.

Does this mean that if I add my standard grading rubric to the assignment (with the criteria for the original written submission, not the peer review) that peer reviewers will be able to/ will have to use it? My rubric for this assignment includes both graded  criteria for the reflection students submit and for their peer review. 17% of the total mark for the reflection and 8% for the peer review

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello there, @MichaelBurville ...

Thanks for your question.  It sounds as though you have two parts to your rubric for this peer review assignment.  Part of your rubric you normally use for the assignment, but then you also have another part which will include the peer review items that your students will provide feedback on.  As you may know, you can only attach one rubric on a given assignment in Canvas.  And, I'm guessing that you've already reviewed this Guide:

How do I view student peer review comments as an i... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Keeping in mind that my role in Canvas has been an administrator and not so much an instructor, I would recommend that you maybe split up your assignment into two parts.  This would create two separate assignments in your Gradebook, and I know this might not be the most idea.  However, if you split up the assignment into two parts, you can essentially attach one rubric per assignment and give them the proper points for each part of the assignment ... while also taking advantage of the peer review for only the second part of the assignment.  You could set this up in your Modules page so that you'd want your students to first review/complete the assignment in the first one, and then go to the second part for the peer review.

I know this suggestion might not be the most ideal or the only way to do things...and I imagine there might be other instructors here in the Community that have had more experience with this than I have.  But, this is the first thing that came to mind as I was reading through your posting.  My $0.02 ... for what it's worth.  Hope it will help in some way ... or at least spark some ideas for you to try.  Good luck!

[MichaelBurville]

Thanks for your help Chris. The trick with this one is the students are peer reviewing a reflection which I am also grading separately, So if i put a rubric on the reflection and then make it peer reviewed it looks like students have to use the rubric I attach to complete their peer review. Their peer review is essentially a reflection on another students reflection. I don't want them to review the quality of the other students reflection itself.

Part of the marks for this assignment is my grading of their peer reviews also. So I can separate out the scoring in two assignments but I don't want two submission points.

What i really need is to change the peer review option to comment only so I can add my rubric to the assignment. But that doesn't seem possible. All i can see as a workaround is to not use a Canvas rubric on the peer reviewed reflections and just mark directly into speedgrader. 

Does anyone else see another option?