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Rubric-assignment scoring mismatch alert not enough

abbyrosensweig
Community Contributor

In reviewing the 9/24 deploy we were interested to see the score mismatch alert item. However, based on our testing of how this feature actually works, I'd like to suggest that this warning is too little, too late in the grading process for faculty. I was able to create a rubric for an assignment and save it with the point mismatch without getting any message of an issue. Most instructors would create an assignment, create a rubric (or associate an existing rubric with the assignment), and consider themselves done with the process. Even when I then submitted on behalf of a student and graded the assignment with the rubric, there still wasn't a warning that this rubric didn't match the assignment point value. I could only get the warning to trigger when I edited a criterion on an existing rubric (when attached to an assignment).

For this update to be meaningful, the point value mismatch warning should be present in more places in the assignment setup and grading process.