Grade a Blackboard Assignment With an Associated Rubric

When to Use?

Use a rubric in Blackboard Ultra to efficiently and consistently evaluate student work. Rubrics help ensure transparency in grading by clearly aligning scores with defined performance criteria.

Procedure

Score a student's assignment submission with a rubric in Blackboard Ultra.

1. Navigate to your course and select the Gradebook tab.

2. In the Gradebook’s list view, click the name of the assignment that contains the rubric for scoring.

2. Select the name of a student to view their submission then click the Open grading rubric icon to open the Feedback panel to view the rubric for scoring.

4. Expand the levels of achievement for each row of criteria and click the appropriate level for scoring. Add criterion specific feedback by clicking the View Feedback icon. Scores will be saved automatically.

5. Provide any Overall Feedback and click the Save Changes button.

To enhance grading efficiency, instructors can now pop out the grading rubric into a separate window when grading an assignment submission. The pop-out rubric is a separate, movable window and formatted in a grid view. Popping out the rubric lets you view the student submission and the rubric side-by-side for a more efficient grading experience.

Instructors can pop out the rubric by selecting the expand icon in the rubric panel.

NOTE: When the pop-out rubric is open, the ability to add Overall Feedback and grade with the rubric in the main grading interface is inactive. This prevents an instructor from editing the same information in two separate places simultaneously