Rubrics: A Guide

By Divisha Patel

One of the great features of Google Classroom is ‘Rubrics’. Teachers can create, reuse and grade student work using rubrics for individual assignments. Rubrics are essentially mark schemes that can be added to your assignments, but can also be used by students as a success criteria. Rubrics can easily be shared between other teachers to avoid replication. 

Below is an example of a rubric used for providing feedback for IB extended answers in Geography. Each criterion relates to the assessment objectives, and provides clear guidance on how to achieve each level. 

The above rubrics has a score assigned, but the rubric can be adapted to be unscored. This may be used for grading effort or SPaG. 

The following video outlines:

• How to make a rubric

• How to assess work using a rubric

• How to share your rubric with other teachers

For a demonstration of the above the video here will help:

For further information about how to use Rubrics, visit the Google for Education support page here. 

Using rubrics on Google Classroom