Group feedback when using a rubric

[Heidik]

Hi,

There's a functionality I'm missing with regards to using rubrics with group assignments (or I don't know how to do it, and hopefully someone can advise me). I haven't been able to find any posts on this either.

My set up is this: My students are submitting a group assignment (a video of a presentation), and I have a rubric set up for grading the assignment. Some parts of the rubric are intended for the group (feedback on the content, the powerpoint, etc.) and some parts of the rubric are intended for the individual (grammar, vocabulary, presentation style). The grades are individualized.

What I would like to be able to do is to give both individualized and group feedback. However, when using the rubric, it seems to only be either or. If I use the setting "Assign Grades to Each Student Individually", then the rubric is individualized and the students are not grouped together. This means that to give joint feedback using the rubric, I need to find each student in that group (that in itself is already troublesome) and give the same comment on the rubric to each student. The "Comments" field allows me to give comments to all students, but if I use that, then there's no point to using a rubric. If "Assign Grades to Each Student Individually" is unchecked, then students are grouped together and all comments on the rubric go to all students. This means I cannot use the rubric to give individualized feedback (and there is no option in the Comment field to give individual feedback either). And, of course, they cannot get different grades.

What would make grading easiest is to (a) have all students grouped together regardless of the settings (so that I don't open the same video multiple times), and (b) to be able to choose whether a comment in the rubric goes to an individual student or the entire group. 

I've unchecked "Assign Grades to Each Student Individually" because I don't want to bother with repeating feedback (and finding group members!) - instead, I will address students by name in the individualized fields of the rubric and manually override the grade if needed. But, this is not ideal and I think it undermines the use of a rubric with group assignments, especially if some rubric fields are individualized.

Does anyone know of a better way to do this?

[Chris_Hofer]

Good morning, @Heidik ...

This might not be the most idea way to do this, but one way I could see to work around this is to create two separate assignments in your course...both related to the group assignment.  In your first assignment, you would set it up as a group assignment.  Then, you would attach a rubric to it including only the criteria you wanted to use for the group portion of the assignment.

Next, you would create a separate assignment with a similar name.  You could set the "Submission Type" as "No Submission" since your students are not submitting anything extra to you.  Then, you could attach a separate rubric that only contains the criteria you would use to grade students individually.  This way, you could leave comments for individual assignments and not worry that these comments would also go out to each group set for the assignment.

You would have two columns in your Gradebook, and you could do all your grading for both parts of the assignment in the SpeedGrader if you wanted.

Do you think that this might work for your needs?  Keep us posted...thanks!

[Heidik]

Thank you! Yes, I think that could be a work around!

[joseph_schmidt]

I have a related but somewhat simpler problem. I have a group assignment with a rubric and would like the rubric grades/comments to go to everyone in the group, however, I also adjust the grades individually based on observed participation/contribution to the assignment. Does anyone have any ideas about how to assign grades individually while sending rubric comments/scores to everyone in the group? Currently, we have been telling group members to share the rubric feedback/points but that is less than ideal. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.