Rubric

[ArjinderSingh]

Hi there, Looking to get response from expert available here, will be highly appreciated.

I started creating Rubric and I noticed Rubric is just adding up the marks. Is there any way to perform different calculations like subtractions, average these kind of stuff while making rubric.

Please help me

Thanks

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi there, @ArjinderSingh ...

I'm not sure if these two past discussion threads will get to the root of your question, but I thought I'd share the links with you just in case:

• Solved: Rubric with Negative Points - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)
• Solved: Negative point values in rubric. - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Hopefully you will find some information in either or both of these topics that will be of help to you.

[nielsenw]

The responses above have been archived and are not findable. I also have this question!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @nielsenw ...

That is correct. However, if you read through the document that explains about why those documents are archived, you'll find information on how to request that the links I provided can be recovered by the Community Team. (Unfortunately, I am unable to recover the links for you.) So, if you do need access to these two links to see those conversations, please do consider following the steps to request that those links be recovered.

Thanks, and have a great day!

[nielsenw]

That's not helpful. Just provide some information on how to average scores in a rubric and not just add points please?

[Chris_Hofer]

@nielsenw ...

I am sorry to read that my last response was not helpful to you. You had mentioned the archive, so I wanted to provide you with information on how to request that the links I provided can be restored via request from the Community team.

As far as the rubrics are concerned, when you use a rubric for grading purposes, it takes the points you give for all criteria and provides a total score for the entire assignment. To my knowledge, the rubric does not / cannot automatically calculate an average score. Also, there is nothing documented in these Guides that indicates that averaging scores is a possibility during the rubric creation or grading process:

• How do I add a rubric in a course?
• How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?

For example, if a student received the following scores (out of a possible 10 points each) on four criteria: 10, 6, 6, and 4. The total score that Canvas calculates is 26. It does not display an average score of 6.5 (26 / 4 = 6.5). Even if you did use the rubric for grading via the SpeedGrader, you can still manually type in the average score that the student received for the assignment above the rubric when you grade. But, the rubric will still show the total points that you had selected within the rubric for the student. For example, if we continue to use my example with a 40-point assignment...if I click the cells for 10, 6, 6, and 4 when using the rubric for grading via the SpeedGrader, the total will still show 26 points at the bottom of the rubric...even though I could manually type in a different score above that rubric for the student. I could definitely see how this could be confusing for the student, though.

Since I do not know exactly how you have your rubrics set up in your own course, I don't know if trying free-form comments instead of ratings would be an alternative to consider. In my former role as a Canvas administrator, I did not teach courses where I worked, so I didn't have much experience with grading. But, this might be something to look at...not 100% sure, though. Here's the link:

• How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric in SpeedGrader?

Finally, I thought I'd do a little bit of searching in the Canvas Community to see if I could find any existing Feature Ideas that might closely relate to what you are wanting to do in Canvas. One of my search results was this existing Feature Idea:

• Rubrics that average the criterion scores

Please look it over to see if it might be similar to what you're wanting to see in Canvas. Now, normally I would suggest that you add your own feedback to that Feature Idea and even give it a star rating (which are just a couple of the many ways that Instructure gets feedback from us...the end users). However, earlier this week the Canvas Community team began to lock down all Feature Ideas (temporarily) so that nobody can submit new Feature Ideas, comment on existing Feature Ideas, or give them star ratings. The Community team will be doing some re-org and clean-up of the Feature Ideas, and they will be opening things back up at the beginning of February. In addition, since you are a "New Member" here in the Community, you will need to "rank up" (which is similar to "leveling up" in video games) so that you could submit new Feature Ideas in the future. "Ranking up" in the Community to the next level is pretty easy, FYI. Here are some documents I normally provide folks that are related to what I've just mentioned:

• Welcome New Members
• Idea Conversations: The Path Forward
• How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community?
• What is the feature development process for Instructure products?
• How do I create a new idea conversation in the Instructure Community?

I'm hoping that this additional information will be helpful to you, but I do recognize that it might not be exactly what you are looking for as an immediate solution.

Take care, and be well.

[nielsenw]

Thank you, that's helpful!

I have tried to break criteria down by numbers that add up to 100, and it takes me forever to grade that way. So the rubric doesn't save me any time in the end. However, if there were an averaging algorithm for multiple criteria, that would help a lot.

[Ron_Bowman]

@nielsenw -

@Chris_Hofer has provided plenty of information regarding rubrics and grading. I will add my experience with rubrics and that is there are only two types of actions for rubric grading that I am aware of:

1) you have criteria with points and you click on the various point values and the score is the summation of those points

2) you cna have everything in part 1, and you can add a final criteria that has 0 points possible for the max criteria value and 0 points for the minimum criteria value. You can then type in comments for that criteria and put negative points in the point box. With this method you can take points away for students doing something that is wrong and not covered by any of the criteria that you thought of

That is all that you can do. There is no option as far as I know to average, multiply, divide or any other mathematical operation on the rubric values.

Ron