Using Multiple Rubrics

You can attach more than one rubric to activities like assignments or discussions, allowing you a little more flexibility in terms of workflows, but what why would you use more than one rubric on an activity?

Second marking

Through changing rubric visibility options (i.e. hide from learners), you can have one public and one private rubric, the latter being where someone could agree or disagree with the initial marked rubric. The ‘Overall Score’ on any rubric doesn’t have to be titled the same as your levels, so you can actually just name them ‘second marking complete’ if that works for you. Alternatively, if you do have 2 markers you can use one rubric with a criteria per marker which they can fill in to record the process.

Marking Training

In corporate or education, you will always have people marking who are new to it. Providing a second private rubric allows an experienced marker the opportunity to feed back on the marking done by someone new to the role, or even a trainee teacher.

Assessing multiple items against multiple rubrics

If you get users to submit multiple items, you may want to assess against different criteria for each of these. By attaching multiple rubrics to an assignment, you can choose which rubric you want to assess against each item. For ease of experience, keep some of these rubrics hidden from students (until publication of course), so they aren’t overwhelmed seeing 5 rubrics in an assignment folder.

A subset of this use case is if you have a particularly long and detailed rubric over a couple of pages. You can split these up into themes i.e. one rubric for structure, one rubric for subject matter etc.

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