Rubrics are an excellent tool for both standardizing how you grade an assessment AND to communicating your expectations to your students. You are likely already using one or more rubrics in your courses – perhaps you’re providing students with a Word or Excel rubric file. Blackboard has a built-in rubric tool which is both pretty powerful and easy to use.

In this first 10 minute video, we look at the basics of creating a rubric.

In this second 10 minute video, we look at how to apply a rubric to a new or existing Grade Center column, how to generate a Rubric Evaluation Report, how to grade using a rubric, and how to efficiently navigate between Grade Details pages.