Please note that as the display area for a rubric is limited in width. As you add more levels to a criteria, the display area for each description becomes narrower and they may become difficult to read when marking.
- Open or create your Moodle Assignment.
- If creating a new Moodle Assignment, scroll to Grade settings > Grading method and select Rubric. If the Moodle Assignment is already created, open the Assignment and select Settings from the contextual navigation menu. Scroll down to Grade settings.
- Select Save and Display. You will be redirected to the Advanced Grading page.
- Select Define a new rubric from scratch.
- Type in a brief distinctive Name and (if needed) a description.
- Select the areas marked Click to edit criterion and Click to edit level to tab through the rubric to add a description and assign points to each level.
- Edit each of the levels and criterion by selecting it.
- Delete a level or criterion by selecting the delete cross icon.
- Describe further criteria and levels as appropriate. You can modify the weight of any criterion by setting the value of the points assigned to its levels. If there is one criterion with levels 0, 1, 2, 3 and the second one with levels 0, 2, 4, 6 then the latter's impact on the final grade is twice as much as the former's.
- Select appropriate options for your assignment criteria:
- Deselect Allow users to preview rubric if you do not wish for students to have access to it before the deadline.
- Points are required but if you don't want to use numeric values you can hide them from student view
- Allowing Add text remarks enables markers to add constructive text comments.
- You can add negative points if necessary.
- Once the rubric is ready, select Save rubric and make it ready or Save as draft.
- You can check the status or re-edit your rubric by clicking into your assignment and selecting Advanced Grading in the red navigation menu.
On Moodle 3.9, you can edit your rubric by opening the assignment, then selecting Edit Settings, then Advanced Grading.
