Many teachers use rubrics to help guide their student’s projects. There are resources on the internet that can make the process of creating a rubric a little easier. The most common one shared by my professors and one that I found to be most simple and easy to manipulate is RubiStar.
is free and allows you to create rubrics for temporary or permanent use, you decide. I haven’t accessed RubiStar for several months and just logged in and found out that rubrics I created in January are still there!
You decide everything about your rubric – category names and how many categories you have and the information within the categories to rate the project. Also, you can use pre-made rubrics and keep them the same or modify them to fit your needs.
Need more convincing reasons to use RubiStar? You can access your RubiStar rubrics anywhere ~ home, school and work. RubiStar also integrates with Blackboard (becoming more popular) and combines data for student achievement purposes. RubiStar is an excellent resource to have!
Everywhere I go I love talking about RubiStar. It is certainly a great tool.
The Blackboard (and Moodle and Blackboard Vista – aka WebCT) integration happens through Waypoint Outcomes.
My company, Subjective Metrics, is the developer of Waypoint Outcomes. Waypoint makes rubrics interactive – clickable, shareable – so that teachers can quickly create exceptional feedback.
With Blackboard and Moodle, teachers can use their rubrics to create feedback, then automatically send their feedback and grades to an online gradebook.
They can also set up peer review and self-assessment rubrics so that students can use an interactive rubric to learn the goals of the assignment in more detail.
Any rubric saved to RubiStar can be imported into Waypoint in 3 clicks.