Enhanced Rubrics: Release Change Log

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This document indicates feature updates in the Enhanced Rubrics project. The release date indicates the date the features will be available in the production environment. All noted updates can be tested in the beta environment in advance of its announced release date.

• 2024-11-16
• 2024-08-28

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2024-11-16

New Features

Rubric CSV Export and Import

On the Rubrics page, instructors can export individual rubrics in CSV or XML formats and import them in the same formats directly into the Rubrics page. This allows instructors to create or reuse rubrics across courses, with a validation process in place to ensure data integrity and correct rubric mapping during upload.

Related Idea: [Rubrics] Allow Importing of Rubrics from csv Format

Sharing Rubrics at the Course Level

On the Rubrics page, instructors can copy rubrics from the current course to another course.

Related Idea: [Rubrics] Share using 'Copy To' and 'Send To'

2024-08-28

Updated Feature

Enhanced Rubrics Feature Option Availability

• The Rubic Enhancements feature option is renamed Enhanced Rubrics. Additionally, the Enhanced Rubrics feature option is available on the sub-account, and course levels. This feature option is Enabled/Unlocked by default in beta and Disabled/Unlocked in production.

Published 2024-08-16

[wschilling]

This feature as it currently stands is not robust or useful.  In trying to use it, the following significant limitations have been encountered:

#1 The tool does not properly retain points values for given ratings.  For example, if I have a 3 level scale of "FULLY ACHIEVED", "PARTYIALLY ACHIEVED", and "NOT ACHIEVED" and assign the points 1, .5, and 0 to each entry for a given Criteria, the rubric import causes these to have point values of 1, 0, and 0.

#2 The tool will re-arrange Rating names and descriptions on a criteria by criteria basis.  For example, the following is a simplification of what is seen when a rubric is generated. For example, the columns shown would be:

Criteria 1 |FULLY ACHIEVED | PARTIALLY ACHIEVED | NOT ACHIEVED |

Criteria 2 |NOT ACHIEVED | PARTIALLY ACHIEVED | FULLY ACHIEVED |

Criteria 3 |FULLY ACHIEVED | NOT ACHIEVED | PARTIALLY ACHIEVED |

In essence, the tool is completely losing the order of certain rows when they are imported.

I'm also not able to find a rubric that I imported on the assignment page to use it for grading.

[LMacaulay]

We are seeing this too. It is making faculty grade incorrectly if they don't realize the columns are out of order.

[FOULONIne]

When testing the import we mostly get the message that the import could not be effected due to incorrect data format. However, we are not able to detect why the import is not compatible. The error messages should be more detailed for the user to be able to correct their importfile.