Rubrics
Teachers and students alike know the importance of rubrics. It gives both a guide to producing and grading that allows students to know where to go. Because teachers create rubrics based on standards and goals of the units, they always translate into an accurate assessment of student learning. Using rubrics online is another way students and teachers can easily work within the scope of the project to be graded. Below are different places you can either create a digital rubric or where you can go get ideas from rubrics already created.
iRubric - allows you to build or search for rubrics. This site allows you to build, assess, share and work collaboratively with your rubrics.
AllForRubrics - another one of my favorites, this site allows you to easily grade from your iPadas well as online so that all the data from the rubrics can be gathered and analyzed. Just like any other assessment, the data we get from the grades allows us to see what our students have learned and which direction we need to go next.
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Rubrics - Schrock has many guides to many things, but I appreciate her Guide to Rubrics because of the vast areas she has on her website. Many people are thrown off because she does work with Common Core and on this page, it is the first thing you see, but there are many other rubrics you can use on the right and below the CCCS material. She has many rubrics based on the technologies discussed on this website, so if you are struggling grading, you can go here and get help from the best.
Rubric Reminders
Do you use and share your rubrics in Google Docs? Don't forget when you copy the share link to send to someone, you can replace "share" with "copy" at the end and it forces them to make a copy.
When you create a rubric, sometimes the toughest thing is evaluating it to make sure it is "good". So what makes a good rubric? Try this source for help.
A tough thing to teach and sometimes grade is collaborative work. Try this rubric to help your students see what they need to be doing while collaborating.
Do you already use Google Docs to create your rubrics? You might want to think about trying Doctopus and Goobric. This isn't my favorite way to grade, but many teachers really like it.
Online Rubrics
Rubistar - allows you to create rubrics on your own or based on ones already created. You can pick by subject areas and begin create or search for rubrics.
OrangeSlice Google Doc Add-On
One of my favorites, it easily works with Google Classroom because you can embed the rubric in the document that you are grading. If you go to the Chrome Web Store or to the Add-Ons tab in a Google Doc, you will be able to search for and find OrangeSlice.
Once you have added it on, you will need to give permissions to run. It also pops up with this window where I clicked Learn More. Click the image to see help sheets and videos:
Once you create (or copy and paste) your rubric, it embeds on the Google Doc and you can score it for the student to see.
If you need help with creating rubrics, please fill out the form here for integration help. If you have some great rubrics you would like to share, fill out the from below to help start Sanger's own group of rubrics. Be sure to load them into your Google Drive and share the link in the form.