Canvas General Education Rubric Process

You can use the provided general education rubric for grading. This means that if you have Paper #1, you would attach the general education rubric to the assignment, and grade student work with the rubric. The score that is recorded by the rubric will be the earned score of the student for that assignment, which then counts towards the students final grade. This is the recommended and easiest way to use a general education rubric.

No other action is needed by the faculty member other than using the full general education rubric to grade the aligned assignment. Your coordinator or designee will pull the general education rubric outcomes data for you.

Please follow the steps below to attach a general education rubric to an assignment and use it for grading.

1. Go to the assignment that needs the general education grading rubric.
2. Click on the title of the assignment.
3. Click + Rubric.
4. Click Find a Rubric in the top right.
5. In the left-hand panel, scroll down until you find Montgomery County Community College.
6. In the right-hand panel, select the appropriate general education rubric.
7. Scroll down and click Use This Rubric.
8. You will see the rubric posted to the assignment.
9. Click the pencil (edit) in the top right of the rubric.
10. You will get the pop-up message below and you can click OK.
    You cant edit this rubric, either because you dont have permission or its being used in more than one place. Any changes you make will result in a new rubric based on the old rubric. Continue anyway?
11. At the bottom of the rubric check off Use this rubric for assignment grading.
12. Select Update Rubric.
13. You may get a pop-up asking if you want to keep or change the total points of the assignment. You should select change if your assignment points are different than the total points of the rubric.

14. The rubric and assignment are now ready for student submissions and grading.

    
    
    

    
    The total points a student can earn will be the total points the rubric is worth. For example, the rubric is a total of 25 points. Your assignment will now be worth 25 points and students can earn up to 25 points. The grade they earn will be the grade that counts towards their final grade in the course.
    
    If you have an assignment that has a different point value than the rubric please see Option #2 below.

This option would be for faculty who do not use any grading rubrics for any assignments or only use them for specific assignments but want to align specific general education rubric criteria to an assignment or multiple assignments. This option is different from Option #2 because you are not using the full general education rubric but parts of the rubric. During the grading process, faculty will be tracking mastery and will not influence the students manually assigned grade.

This method means that you can assess individual criteria within a general education rubric across multiple assignments without needing your own grading rubrics.

No other action is needed by the faculty member other than assessing the general education criteria aligned to the assignment(s). Your coordinator or designee will pull the general education rubric outcomes data for you.

1. Go to the assignment that has a grading rubric.
2. Click on the title of the assignment.
3. Click + Rubric.
4. Click the pencil (edit) in the top right.
5. Towards the bottom, choose Find Outcome.
6. Choose the folder for the outcomes you added from the directions at the top of this page (e.g. Communication).
7. Select a rubric criterion that will be assessed with your rubric.
8. Uncheck "Use this criterion for scoring".
9. Select Import (repeat 11-13 for each criterion that you want to add to your rubric).
10. Once you have added all the individual criteria by repeating steps 5-9, at the bottom of the rubric choose "Remove points from rubric".
11. Select Update Rubric.
12. The rubric and assignment are now ready for student submissions and grading.
    
    
    
    

    This option assumes you are entering a manual grade for the assignment. The grade you enter manually is the grade that counts towards the students final grade. This also assumes you do not have any grading rubrics of your own. If you have a grading rubric of your own and you want to add the full rubric or part of the rubric to your own grading rubric please see Option #3.

    
    You may only have one or two criteria to use for evaluating a specific assignment and that is appropriate if using this option. The other criteria that also make up a general education rubric will be aligned with other assessments. In this option, you are assessing the general education as a whole, it is just across multiple assignments.

NOTE: This cannot be done retroactively. Meaning, that it cannot be completed in a course that has already ended (previous semester) or for a quiz/exam that has already been taken by students. You will need to use Options 1-4 if this applies to you.

This option is only available in New Quizzes. To determine if a quiz is set up as a classic or new quiz go into the quiz and click Edit in the top right. Scroll to the bottom of the page and if you see the word Build in the bottom right-hand side of the page, it is a new quiz.

If you see Save in the bottom right-hand side of the page, it is a classic quiz. To convert the classic quiz to a new quiz complete the following steps:

1. Go back to the Quiz dashboard by clicking Quizzes on the course menu.
2. Find the classic quiz that needs to be converted and click the three dots to the right.
3. Click Migrate
4. It will still retain the other quiz as a classic quiz, meaning you will have a classic quiz and a new quiz version. You may wish to delete the classic quiz version so as to not have duplicates or get confused.

Once you have converted (if needed) any quizzes from classic to new quizzes, follow the steps below to add general education rubric criteria to specificquiz questions.

1. Click on the three dots next to the new quiz in the Quizzes dashboard.
2. Click Build.
3. Locate the quiz question to attach the general education rubric criteria.
4. Click the pencil (edit) in the top right of the quiz question.
5. Towards the bottom, choose the drop-down Align to Outcomes.
6. Choose Browse and "add outcomes by clicking here".
7. Select the general education rubric outcomes folder in the left-hand panel (e.g. Communication).
8. Select all or select individual general education rubric outcomes that will align with that quiz question.
9. Select Confirm Alignment.
10. Select Done on that question.
11. To return to the course, click Return at the top of the page.

To add outcomes to the quiz or test as a whole complete the following steps:

1. Click on the three dots next to the new quiz in the Quizzes dashboard.
2. Click Build.
3. Click Outcomes in the top right.
4. Choose Browse and "add outcomes by clicking here".
5. Select the general education rubric outcomes folder in the left-hand panel (e.g. Communication).
6. Select all or select individual general education rubric outcomes that will align with the quiz overall.
7. Select Confirm Alignment.
8. To return to the course, click Return at the top of the page.

You can go to Outcomes on the course menu and select the tab Alignments. This will show you which outcomes are aligned with which assignments along % of coverage in the course.

Canvas Guide: Outcomes Alignment