How do I grade an assignment with a Blackboard rubric when students submit offline?

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If students will be submitting an assignment offline, but the instructor wants to use a rubric, we will first need to create the grade book column and associate a rubric with it.

1. Go to the Grade Center area of the Control Panel and then select Full Grade Center.

2. Click Create Column and enter the name of your assignment.

3. Locate the column for the assignment you just created. Click on the contextual menu in the column header and choose Edit Column Information from the drop-down list.

4. At the bottom of section 1, mouse over the Add Rubric button next to Associated Rubrics.  You can choose to Select an already existing rubric, Create a New Rubric, or Create a rubric from an Existing Rubric.

5. Once you have associated a rubric with the column, you need to choose whether the rubric is used for grading, or for secondary evaluation.

6. Finally, under the section "Show Rubric to Students" you need to choose either No (in which case students will never see the rubric), Yes with Rubric Scores (students will be able to view the entire rubric prior to completing the assignment), Yes without Rubric Scores (students will see the standard rubric but will not see the grades you give them based on the rubric), or After Grading (students will only see the rubric after you have graded the assignment). DoIT highly recommends that you choose the Yes with Rubric Scores option.

7. Click Submit to save your associated rubric and options.

Now that our rubric is associated with the gradebook column, we can begin to grade.

1. Go to the Grade Center area of the Control Panel and then select Full Grade Center.

2. Identify the column for the assignment.

3. Click on the contextual arrow for the field that corresponds to the student’s row and submission.

4. Select View Grade Details.

5. At the next screen, the rubric button should be available next to the field where we would manually enter a score. Instead of doing this, we’ll click the View Rubric button to open the grading interface.

6. The rubric will open in a pop-up window. Evaluate the student with the rubric and save. The pop-up window will close and the score should populate the previously blank field for the column.

7. Enter any additional feedback. Save the grade and move on to the next student.