A well-done rubric is a thing of beauty for both students and instructors. They provide students with a set of guidelines to help them meet your expectations for the assignment and they provide you with a method to streamline your feedback and grading. But when they’re not set up well, a rubric is no use to anyone! Let’s look at what makes an effective rubric effective.
If you’d like a few more specifics, here’s a short article on How to Write Great Rubrics.
Hi Helen,
Love your videos! We’d like to know where you got your graphics from? Like the people and drawing of the rubric.
Thank you for your fun and entertaining AND educational videos!
Hi, Laura,
I make many of my graphics in Canva. Some are from google searches. (I’m pretty low tech and certainly not a graphic designer myself. ;-))
Warmly,
Helen
Hi. Are you using PowerPoint to do your presentations?
BTW, I love these. They are so helpful! I wish I had found your videos sooner.
Hi, Lori,
Thanks for your kind words. The original Byte-sized were done using Screencast-o-matic and PowerPoint. I’ve since upgraded to Camtasia.
Warmly,
Helen
I’m assuming that you are still using PowerPoint and Canva. I’m trying to figure that out.
Thanks.
Hi, Lori,
I’m using Canva for many of the graphics but have moved to Camtasia (rather than PPT) for the actual presentation. Hope that helps clarify.
Warmly,
Helen
Are you able to share the model rubric presented here?
Thank you for your wonderfully helpful videos!
Syd
Hi, Syd,
Unfortunately there’s no way to share a file here on the blog post, and even if I could share a Word or PDF version, it wouldn’t be usable in Canvas. =-/
I will say I’m a big proponent of the CASE method (copy and share everything) so I do google searches to help me come up with criteria and descriptive language for my rubrics. If you do a search for “example essay rubric” (or something along those lines) you’ll get lots of ideas which you can then modify to suit your needs.
Hope that helps.
Warmly,
Helen