Inspera Rubrics (Ultra)
A rubric clarifies expectations for an assessment task by helping the course team, students and markers develop a shared understanding of a task’s most important aspects and the standards expected.
You can use rubrics to prepare assessment tasks, mark them and provide feedback. Students also use rubrics to guide their completion of assessments. More information on rubrics.
In Inspera, rubrics are attached to individual questions, not the entire assessment. They can be used for manually marked questions only, namely:
- Essay
- Text Area
- Upload Assignment
- Programming
- Math working
- Audio Record.
Three types of rubrics in Inspera are:
- Points-based
- Points-range
- Percentage-range.
You can easily convert from one rubric type to another.
Create Points-based rubric
With point-based rubrics, you can allocate a single point value to each Level of Performance/Criteria. Once a max score is decided on, points are automatically divided across the number of Levels of Performance. The total number of max points determines how many points total the rubric is worth.
The following limitations apply to point-based rubrics:
- Points can have up to two decimal places
- You cannot have a negative point.
- In Inspera, from Author drop-down list select Rubrics.
- Click on the New rubric template button.
- In the New rubric template textbox, type the rubric title.
Recommendation: course code + assignment title + SX YYYY.
- From Rubrics type drop-down list, select Points-based rubric.
- Add/remove the required number of Criteria and Levels of performance by clicking on 4 Criterion + and 4 Level of performance + buttons.
Note: the default setting is 40 Total points and points are equally distributed across levels of performance and criteria. When you add/remove levels of performance, the points will adjust automatically. You can manually override the numbers.
- Click on the Max points number to change the points value in each level of performance and each criterion.
- Click on Level of performance 1 button to change the title. Add the descriptor to the relevant box.
- Click on Criterion 1 textbox to change the title.
8. Click on the Save button. The rubric will be saved in the Author>Rubrics templates.
Create Points-range rubric
With points range rubrics, a range of points is allocated to each Level of Performance. Once a max score is decided on, points are automatically divided across the number of Levels of Performance.
- In Inspera, from Author drop-down list select Rubrics.
- Click on the New rubric template button.
- In the New rubric template textbox, type the rubric title.
Recommendation: course code + assignment title + SX YYYY.
- From Rubrics type drop-down list, select Points-range rubric.
- Add/remove the required number of Criteria and Levels of performance by clicking on 4 Criterion + and 4 Level of performance + buttons.
- Click on Level of performance 1 button to change the title. Add the descriptor to the relevant box.
- Click on Criterion 1 textbox to change the title.
- The default setting is 40 Total points and points are equally distributed across levels of performance and criteria. When you add/remove levels of performance, the points will adjust automatically. You can manually override the upper limit and the Max points and all points will be re-calculated automatically.
- Click on the Save button. The rubric will be saved in the Author > Rubrics templates.
Create Percentage-range rubric
With percentage rubrics, a percentage is allocated to each Level of Performance. Once a max percentage is decided on, a range of percentages is automatically divided across the number of Levels of Performance.
- In Inspera, from Author drop-down list select Rubrics.
- Click on the New rubric template button.
- In the New rubric template textbox, type the rubric title.
Recommendation: course code + assignment title + SX YYYY.
- From Rubrics type drop-down list, select Percentage-range rubric.
- Add/remove the required number of Criteria and Levels of performance by clicking on 4 Criterion + and 4 Level of performance + buttons.
- Click on Level of performance 1 button to change the title. Add the descriptor to the relevant box.
- Click on Criterion 1 textbox to change the title.
- The default setting is 100% total and points are equally distributed across levels of performance and criteria. When you add/remove levels of performance/criteria, the points will adjust automatically. You can manually override the upper limit and the Max %.
Note: to change the lower limit, you need to change the Max % of that criterion.
- Click on the Save button. The rubric will be saved in the Author>Rubrics templates.
Attach a Rubric to a Question
- From the Author drop-down list select Questions.
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- Click on Create new or select the existing question.
Reminder: rubrics can be used only with the following question types:
- Essay
- Text Area
- Upload Assignment
- Programming
- Math working
- Audio Record.
- Click on Marks > Maximum marks > Rubrics.
- From the Add rubric drop-down list select Start from template, as you have already created a rubric.
Note: if you have not created a rubric previously, click on Create new and follow the guides
- Click on the title of the rubric you wish to use and click click on Add to question button.
Note: you will be able to edit the rubric in the next step.
- Click on View/Edit button to edit the rubric if required.
Share a Rubric
To share a rubric, you will need to share the question with the attached rubric.
- In the question, click on the Share with users icon.
- In the Add user textbox, start typing the name of the required user.
- Select that person from the list.
- (Optionaly) check Notify via e-mail checkbox.
- Click on the Share button.
- Repeat steps 2-5 to share with more users.
- When finished, click on the Finish button.
Attach a shared Rubric to a different Question
- Open the question that has been shared with you with the rubric attached.
- Click on the Marks button.
- Select Rubrics from the drop-down menu.
- Click on the Rubrics button.
- Click on the View/Edit button.
- Tick the Save as template box.
- Click on the Save button to save this rubric as a template for use on other questions.
- Follow the steps under the following sections to attach this rubric template to a different question:
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