87 Rubrics II with Karla Ausderau – 11.17.2017

The November 17, 2017 Active Teaching Lab explored Canvas Rubrics. Karla Ausderau shared how to improve student learning with rubrics. 

Rubrics help focus student efforts as they complete assignments, and provide easy, specific instructional feedback that reinforces learning goals.

Takeaways:

• Use analytic rubrics (see examples of rubric types here) to provide directed, specific feedback and also make grading easier.
• Think of a rubric as a working document, not a locked tool. Work to continuously align rubrics with course objectives and materials to help students understand why they’re being asked to do what they need to do in the course.
• Begin a course with a scavenger hunt in which students connect objectives to rubrics.
• Start out with a single-point rubric. Then, as you gain experience with it, increase specificity incrementally to develop it into an analytic rubric.
• Strive toward a conceptual rubric that is flexible enough to reuse across assignments and fit a variety of formats.

Check out the session’s activity sheet for more tips and tricks on using rubrics in Canvas.

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