Apply a rubric table

Rubric tables are used to support the grading of external activities in Möbius .

External activity — An activity that was completed outside of the Möbius platform (Example — a quiz completed on paper, an oral presentation, etc.).

Rubric table — A scoring tool that establishes the grading criteria for an external activity.

To apply an existing rubric table to grade external activities, you'll:

  1. Create an external activity in Möbius.

  2. Select a rubric table to apply to the new external activity.

  3. Save the external activity.

  4. Enter your students' grades by selecting their grade from the applied rubric table.

IMPORTANT: A rubric table can only be applied to external activities, and only while the external activity is being entered into Möbius. A rubric table can't be applied to an existing external activity that already has grades entered for it. Rubric tables also can't be applied to Möbius lessons or assignments.

TIP: Once a rubric table is applied to an external activity, you're able to quickly access the external activity from the Class Homepage.

TIP: Don't have any rubric tables yet to apply to external activities? Check out Create a rubric table.

TIP: Check out Access rubric tables for reminders of what rubric tables you've already created or inherited.

To apply a rubric table

To apply a rubric table to an external activity:

  1. Click External on the Class Homepage.

The External menu is the fifth menu on the main Möbius navigation bar.

  1. Click External & Rubrics.

The External & Rubrics menu option is the first option in the External menu.

  1. Select Create new assignment... from the Choose Assignment drop-down list.

The Create new assignment option is selected in the choose assignment drop-down menu.

  1. Define a name for your new external activity.

"Graphing Assignment 2" is entered as the name of the external assignment in the assignment name field.

  1. Select your desired rubric table from the list of available rubric tables.

The "Graphing Assignment Rubric" is selected from the rubric table drop-down list.

NOTE: The Total Points field of the external activity autofills based on the maximum achievable score defined by the rubric table.

Total points fields is autofilled with 6.0 based on the selected rubric table.

TIP: The preview rubric table iconThe preview rubric table icon is a blue and white patterned 4x4 grid.appears when a rubric table is selected. Click the preview rubric table iconThe preview rubric table icon is a blue and white patterned 4x4 grid.to preview the selected rubric table.

The preview rubric table icon is highlighted to the right of the selected rubric table field.

 

Click Close to exit the rubric table preview and return to the External & Rubrics page.

The close button is located below the rubric table preview.

  1. Define the minimum passing score for the external activity.

A passing score of 4.0 is manually entered into the passing score field.

  1. Click Save to save the external activity and to begin entering student grades.

The save button is located below the external assignment pane.

  1. Click on the preview rubric table iconThe preview rubric table icon is a blue and white patterned 4x4 grid.in a student's row to access the rubric table for that specific student's activity submission.

The preview rubric table icon is highlighted in the rubric column of the student grades table.

NOTE: You'll receive an alert message to save your external activity before being able to click the preview rubric table iconThe preview rubric table icon is a blue and white patterned 4x4 grid. to enter students' grades. Click OK to return to the external activity to save it.

OK is highlighted in the alert message that says: "Please save the assignment before starting grading."

TIP: You can use the User Search field in the External Assignment pane to quickly locate a specific student in the grade list. Start typing either the student name or ID and the results will automatically refine based on your entry.

The user search field is highlighted in the external assignment pane above the student grades table.

  1. Select the appropriate cell for each category and weight that you feel the student has earned. The selected cell becomes shaded.

A sampe rubric table is shown with the upper left cell highlighted showing that the student will receive the grade associated with that weight and category.

TIP: Click on a cell a second time to deselect it.

TIP: You can add notes in the Notes cells that will be visible to the student in their Gradebook.

The Notes column has a custom comment entered in it in the rubric table.

  1. The student's score is automatically calculated based on the weight cells that you've selected (Example — if the cells relating to the weights of 2, 2, and 1 are selected, the student's score will be 5).

The score field autofills with 5 since the cells worth a total of 5 are selected.

  1. Click Save to save the student's score.

The save button is below the rubric table.

  1. A success message appears that the student's results have been saved successfully. Click OK.

The OK button is highlighted in the success message that states: "Results have been successfully saved."

  1. Click Close to return to the external activity.

The Close button is after the save button below the rubric table.

  1. The student's grade based on your rubric table selections autofills into the Score field.

The score of 5.0 is shown in the score cell of the student grades table.

TIP: You can add a comment in the Comment field for your records. These comments are only visible to you.

The comment field has a custom comment entered in the student grade table.

TIP: You can edit the Score field by clicking the preview rubric table iconThe preview rubric table icon is a blue and white patterned 4x4 grid.to return to the rubric table to make your edits.

  1. Click Save after you've completed the grading of all your students' external activities.

The save button is located below the student grades table.

 

IMPORTANT: Clicking Delete on the External & Rubrics page deletes the entire activity and its grade records from the Gradebook. If you want to perform this deletion and this activity is included in a Grade Report, you must first remove it from the Report Group. Check out Edit a Grade Report.

  1. A success message is displayed stating that the external activity was saved successfully. The scores and notes from the rubric tables are pushed to the Gradebook and are visible to your students.

A success message appears at the top left of the external and rubrics page stating: External assignment was saved successfully.

TIP: Once the rubric table has been applied to an external activity, this linkage is displayed on the Class Homepage. A new Rubrics pane appears and displays the rubric table name and the total achievable points.

A rubrics pane is shown on the Class Homepage below the activities pane.

You can click on the rubric table name to be navigated directly to the External & Rubrics page where you can edit the external grades and activity that the rubric table has been linked to.

The name of the rubric table is highlighted in the rubrics pane on the class homepgae.