Say goodbye to arbitrary grading and generic scores! We are incredibly excited to introduce "Rubric Grading"—a powerful teacher-productivity feature designed to help you build reusable, criterion-by-criterion assessment frameworks at the subject level. Make grading faster, consistent, and fully transparent for your students.
✨ Key Features for Teachers:
- 📊 Classic Matrix Builder: Create rubrics using a traditional grading grid. Define columns as performance levels and point scales (e.g., Excellent, Good, Needs Improvement) and rows as criteria and relative weights. Fill out specific descriptors for each intersection cell smoothly.
- 🤖 "Draft with AI" Integration: Pressed for time? Click the AI button, fill out a quick intake form (topic, grade level, and learning goals), and optionally upload/link a curriculum framework document. Our Gemini-powered assistant will analyze the requirements and map out a ready-to-edit rubric draft instantly!
- 🧮 Automated Score Normalization: Grade via criteria points and let our engine do the math. The weighted rubric total automatically scales and normalizes itself to fit the assignment's exact
maxScore—feeding seamlessly into your existing grade books and report cards. - ✍️ Focused Inline Grading Panel: When an assignment utilizes a rubric, the traditional numerical text input is hidden. Instead, an interactive matrix panel appears inside the student work preview, allowing you to select performance levels and write targeted per-criterion feedback comments effortlessly.
🎓 Empowering Student Transparency:
- Students will gain full visibility into their grades. Once their submission status updates to
REVIEWED, a read-only Rubric Breakdown displays exactly how they scored against every single criterion alongside any direct teacher advice.
⚠️ Important Rules & Constraints:
- 🚫 Delete Safeguard: To protect active grading records, you cannot delete a rubric template if it is currently attached to any assignment. You must detach it from the respective classwork settings first.
- ⚡ Structural Changes Clear Sub-Grades: Because individual scores tightly reference explicit criteria and levels, modifying a rubric's core structure after grading has occurred will wipe the per-criterion breakdowns. While the student's overall normalized numerical grade is safely preserved, teachers will need to re-score the criteria breakdown according to the newly updated framework.