Create rubrics
in Google Classroom
In the fall, a long-awaited addition to the Google Classroom finally arrived. The addition was that you can create rubrics in Google Classroom that will facilitate the teacher’s correction, but also show the student what is being assessed. It provides a formative assessment where the student understands what they need to do to achieve the goals. You may copy text directly from the curriculum and into your rubric or you may create them from scratch.
Google Classroom rubrics
Rubrics are a great way to communicate goals and criteria for different grades. The students get a good view of what the assignment is all about and what the teacher expects from them. By setting different goals for different levels the student can easily see what they need to do in order to achieve a better grade. It is my experience that rubrics also make it easier to communicate about the students’ final grade since they know and understand better why they got the grade they did on every assignment.
Previously, I have made rubrics in a Google Spreadsheet and changed the colour of the different cells depending on how far the student has come. This solution was okay, but it was somewhat tricky that the rubric and the assignment were in different places. This new addition in Google Classroom makes it possible to add a rubric to the assignment itself, with makes it easier for teachers and students to get an overview.
The rubrics are saved separately from the assignments which makes it easy to use them again in a different class or on another assignment. I, for instance, have certain rubrics that are called “3 questions assignment“, “4 questions assignment” and so forth. These only have a passing and a not passing grade and they make it super fast and easy to correct the students work, whether it’s reading comprehension, true or false questions in history or a map assignment in geography.
Here is a guide on how you can save a ton of time by creating rubrics in Google Classroom.
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How to create rubrics in Google Classroom
When you want to create an assignment with a rubric you start by clicking “classwork” in the classroom that you want to use. Choose “assignment” and fill in the name and description as usual. You can add a Google Document that the students will write their answers in.
Once this is done, you click the “rubric” button in the bottom right. Google will now give you 3 choices. You can create a new rubric, reuse one that you have used before or import one from Google Sheets. If you have never used rubrics before you click “create”.
Now you can start creating your rubric. If you are anything like me the first thing you will want to do is to change the order of the criteria from “descending” to “ascending”. This will make the rubric turn up with the grades from left to right when you are about to use it.
The second step is to name the first criterion. For this assignment, I have chosen to call it “Question 1”. After that, you can name the different grades and add them points. Sometimes I just use 0 or 1 point, but a higher point value can be useful since it will allow you to reward the students that work hard and answer the questions better.
Once you have gotten this far you can look at the tree small dots at the right (right next to the points!). If you click them you can choose “Duplicate criterion”. You can duplicate it as many times as you like and then just change the names of the criteria to “Question 1”, “Question 2” etc. When you are done, you click the save button and hand the assignment to the students.
How to use the rubric
When the students are done with the assignment you can start correcting their work. When you open the Google document the rubric will appear next to it. By simply holding the pointer over the different levels you can see what you named them. To grade the assignment you simply click the box that represents the grade and Google will do the counting for you. Easy as pie and it’s very fast.
I usually don’t leave any formative comments on correct answers on this type of assignments. If the students’ answer is not correct I will provide a comment in “private comments” or as a comment in the Google document.
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