Overview
This article explains how instructors create, customize, and edit rubrics in Student Learning & Licensure (SLL). It covers setting up criteria, adding point values, mapping learning standards, and identifying locked attributes after publication.
The Rubrics Tab
The Rubrics tab is located on the left-hand navigation panel of the instructor landing page. Instructors use this tab to create, edit, and view rubrics. A rubric defines assessment criteria and evaluates performance for each criterion. Rubrics are components of an assessment template and are scored directly through the template.
Creating a Rubric
Instructors build rubrics on the Create Rubric page. Student Learning & Licensure (SLL) provides control over rubric content, including performance levels (columns), elements (rows), associated standards, criteria descriptions, and point values.
Tip: Selecting Save As Draft saves progress without making the rubric available for use in active templates.
To create a rubric:
- Select the Rubrics tab on the left-hand navigation panel, then select Create Rubric.
Enter a title in the Name field.
- Add or delete levels and elements as needed.
Select any description box to enter performance criteria text. Edit element and level labels or enter point values for each performance level as needed.
Select Add Alignment to map standards to an element. Mark the checkboxes next to the target standards or outcome statements.
- Select Save to confirm the mapped standards.
- Select Publish to finalize the rubric and make it available for assignment templates.
Editing Rubrics
Publishing a rubric locks several structural attributes to preserve data integrity across associated assessments.
Locked attributes include:
- The total number of performance levels
- The total number of criteria elements
- Point values assigned to levels
- Previously associated standards and outcomes
- Previously aligned Met / Not Met threshold values
While existing standards cannot be removed after publication, instructors can add additional standards at any time. Unassigned Met / Not Met values can also be configured after publishing.