Rubric grading in Moodle presented by Mark Bailye at MoodlePosium 2011

1. Rubric Grading in Moodle
Mark Bailye

2. Overview
Structure for the session
 Current experiences
 Moodlerooms & rubrics
 Moodle 2.2 & rubrics
 Questions

3. Question
Does Moodle need rubrics?
 YES or NO

4. Current experiences
Are people using rubrics in Moodle?
 Assignment – attach as a separate
file (eg .docx, .pdf)
 Workshop

5. Current experiences
Limitations?
 Only available for workshops
 Rubric not available to students
beforehand
 Can not add comments to rubric
 Not reusable

6. elearning platform
 joule 2 – based on Moodle 2
 Has a rubric
modified core Moodle code

7. Benefits of Rubric
 Ease of grading
use own criteria/guidelines to create
 Consistency
can be reused
 Transparency
can be shared with students before & after
grading

12. Rubric
 Checklist rubric
assigns a point total to each guideline in a
criterion and allows any and all guidelines to
be selected
 Marking/Scale rubric
uses a scale for each criterion and score given
if one of the guidelines for each criterion

18. Rubric – positives
 Teacher
 Attach to an assignment
 Create using own criteria/guidelines
 Can be reused
 Can add a comment next to each criteria
and write overall feedback

21. Rubric – positives
 Student
 View before/after assignment submission

22. Rubric – negatives
 Only use with Assignment types
 No provision for offline marking
 Not part of core Moodle code

23. Rubric – more information
 Documentation
http://manuals.moodlerooms.com/display/JOUL
E2/Rubrics+Manual
 Video
Videohttp://youtu.be/iaQbh5Dtvu0

24. Moodle 2.2
What is planned?
 Short-term goal – assignment
 Long-term goal – forum posts, wiki
pages, database records etc.
 For more details, see
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Advanced_grading
_methods

25. Questions
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