Is there a way for students to see a discussion board rubric in the same way they see rubrics for assignments? If not, can I include a link to the rubric for students to click on (without having to create the rubric as a file/document in Canvas and linking to that)? 

I've created rubrics for discussion board. I know if students click on the three dots, they can select: View Rubric. That just seems like extra steps that the students might not take.

For now, I have created an image of the rubric, and embedded the image in the content editor.