1. The Rubrics tool in OAKS allows you to grade assignments and discussions using a criteria grid.  

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2. To get started, click Management

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3. Click Edit Course

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4. Scroll down and click Rubrics

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5. Click the blue New Rubric button at the top left

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6. First, from the far right, be sure that your rubric is set to Published next to Status. If not, select Published.

Only a published rubric can be used for grading.

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7. With your mouse, select textbox under Name.

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8. Type the name of your rubric and press Enter or Return on your keyboard.

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9. Click the Type dropdown arrow

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10. There are two types of rubrics: Holistic and Analytic. In Holistic rubric you evaluate on one criterion.  In Analytic you evaluate on multiple criteria.

Click Analytic

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11. To determine how your rubric will be scored, click the Scoring Points dropdown menu.

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12. This shows the options for points.

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13. If I choose Points you'll see that each level shares a point value, regardless of the criterion being evaluated.  

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14. If I choose Custom Points

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15. You'll see that each criterion has it's own custom point value per level.

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16. Click Points as I want all levels to be equally weighted.

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17. Now it's time to set your criteria.  The criteria are the overarching objectives of the assessment.

Click on the textbox entitled Criterion 1

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18. Type in your criterion

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19. Next click the textbox on the same row under Level 4

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20. Type in what a level 4 of this criterion would look like.

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21. Repeat for all 4 levels.

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22. You can add an additional Level, either at the front or the end of the level list by clicking on the plus sign.

Click on the Plus Sign.

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23. You now have a new level.  Give it a name, Point Value, and description.

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24. Here is the rubric with the first row completed.

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25. Now you would repeat these steps for your remaining criteria.

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26. You can add addition criteria rows by clicking Add Criterion

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27. As you can see I have a New Criterion at the bottom.

You can add a new grouping of criteria by clicking Add Criteria Group.

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28. Type the group name

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29. Then complete the rows and columns as you did in the section above.

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30. When you've completed the Levels and Criteria, scroll to the bottom and click on the arrow to the far right of Options, to open the options panel.

DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP AS IT'S IMPORTANT.

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31. The first section addresses the rubric's visibility to the student.

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32. The second section addresses the rubric grade's visibility to the student.

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33. In the Advanced Availability section, make sure that BOTH items are clicked.  If they aren't, you may not be able to attach this rubric to an assignment or discussion later on.

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34. Scroll down and click Close

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35. That's it. You're done.

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