Rubrics are a powerful tool used to assess students’ work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualisation of what they need to do to achieve a particular score. Each criterion also includes a gradation scale of quality.
Microsoft Teams for education now includes rubric based grading. They can be created and reused across Teams making it a powerful time saving tool for teachers while at the same time helping students understand how to succeed in the assignment.
If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft Team Assignments, please check out our earlier post here.
When setting assignments, you will notice a new “Add Rubric” option.
On this page, you can search for a rubric that has already been created at your school or create a brand new one. In this post, I’m going to go through how to create a new one. Click “new rubric”.
Give the rubric a name and turn on “points” so that we can assign scores to each piece of criteria.
Enter your criteria, you can add more by pressing the plus button. You can also adjust the grading balance for each element. Teams will turn the points into an overall percentage when marking based on the balance given to each criterion.
When you have finished creating your rubric, set the assignment for the students.
When the students have completed the assignment, go to review the work and open the student’s homework. In addition to the comment and grade, you can now select the rubric.
This will show the criteria and you can select which has been met. The student work will be automatically marked based on the grade balance set in the rubric.
This is what the student will see when you have graded their work with the rubric.
It’s another fantastic update to Microsoft Teams for education. There is still more to come this summer including Microsoft Forms integration with self-marking quizzes. We will bring you news and guides on how to use that as soon as it is released!
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Is it possible to add extra rows to rubrics?
Hi Mary,
Yes you can just click the plus (+) button as shown in the image above. Hope that helps!
Tony
Is there a way to get decimal scores? My school uses a 5 point grading scale. It would be nice to have the assignments out of 5 instead of 100, and then get grades like 3.3 out of 5. I have only been able to get rounded answers, like 3 out of 5 when the actual score using the weighting I have loaded into the rubrics should be 3.3 out of 5. I saw when reference online from Microsoft that said you can choose the point scheme and it gave an example of points out of 100 and a 3.7/4.0, but cannot duplicate this.
Hi Will,
It has to be whole numbers, so in your case I would use 50 as your total and then you can simulate the same grading scale (e.g. 3.3 would be 33).
Thanks,
Tony
Is it possible to export the results of a rubric for all students, we have created and graded assignments using the rubric but would like to be able to export all the comments associated with the Team against the individual students but can’t find a way to do this.
For any marked work (using a Rubric or not), you can export the grades and comments (see below)
However this will group them together by assignment rather than by rubric and it will show the total marks rather than for each piece of criteria. I would recommend sending your feedback to Justin Chando at Microsoft as it sounds that feature might be useful.
Hi, We have written assignments in Spanish which are graded using two separate tables to get a score out of 16 (one for Content out of 10, the other for Quality of language out of 6).
Is there a way to add more than one grading option for a single rubric (without percentages, because the grading we have is in bands: 9-10 for content being the highest) or can you apply more than one rubric per assignment?
I’m not able to figure out if we’re fighting a losing battle here.
Hi Andrew,
Let’s arrange a remote session to look at this together (you are a current customer and can log a support ticket directly with us).
Thanks,
Tony
Hi, I have the same question regarding attaching more than one rubric to a single assignment. Wondering if you answered that question already.
I don’t believe that is possible Steven, you might want to suggest it on user voice https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities
Thanks,
Tony
I want my student conduct self assessment. How can I use the rubric in that way?
There are no self assessment options in teams assignments currently.
Hi Tony, we are using Teams a lot more now (!) It seems a shame that when you export the gradebook you lose the data of the rubric marking your have given. It is just an overall score. Is there any way of exporting the rubric judgments? Ultimately what we are looking for is a way of making a judgement on a particular learning objective(s) to say that in that assignment the student has Mastered/Just about got it/Needs more practice/Not yet understanding the topics.
In terms of self-assessment – we have done this using the MS Forms.
Hi Mark,
Great to hear you are using it more (I guess the current world situation has pushed you). There isn’t a way to export the rubric to the gradebook but i would recommend asking Justin the product manager on twitter https://twitter.com/justinchando, they are always looking for feedback.
Thanks,
Tony
this is really useful thanks. Is there a way to award grades rather than scores please?
Hi Anne,
There are only scores available. I would recommend setting the score to 100 and then using it as a percentage for your grade boundaries.
Thanks,
Tony
As above Tony we have moved to (belatedly) Teams for setting remote learning assignments. The Rubric would make grading an assignment and giving feedback so much quicker and easier. The issue I have is that in the UK we don’t have set %s for a particular skill a student is asked to evidence in a piece of assessment for example a 25 mark question has four areas
25 mark evaluative questions:
AO1 Knowledge = 5 – 20%
AO2 Application = 4 – 16%
AO3 Analysis = 6 – 24%
AO4 Evaluation = 10 – 40%
The four skills are in most questions with different descriptions however the %s of a 16, 20, 25 mark question will alter for different questions and topics.
Short question ‘Can I change the amount awarded for each AO as required by a question?
Hi Paul,
It wouldn’t be possible to do that exactly.
I would set your assignment to be out of 100 marks. Then set the percentages in each rubric criteria to match what you have listed above (rather than marks). I appreciate each piece of criteria has a different mark, so again you would have to set each column as it if was a percentage to match as closely as possible.
Hope that helps,
Tony
Hi Tony,
Rather like Andrew Bruton above, I would like to create rubrics that have different assessment criteria that accrue a different number of marks (e.g. a mark out of 24 plus a mark out of 16), each of which have their own bands/levels. I don’t want the eventual mark to be converted into a percentage. I would just want it totalled out of 40 (in the example above).
Is there any way that this can be accommodated on Microsoft Teams?
Many thanks.
Hi Jamie,
It is a common request (as you can see from the comments on this page). I would recommend adding a user voice item for this functionality: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities.
Thanks,
Tony
Is there a way after I have created a rubric to go back and enable points. I forgot to do that when created my rubric and applying is to assignment.
Hi Abby,
Good question, just tried this out and you can’t go back in and enable points for the rubric. You can only remove the rubric, you can’t re-add it either.
Tony
Can you add a rubric after the assignment is completed and saved? Also, is there a way to make the rubric, save it, and continue it not finished creating it?
You can only add a Rubric when creating the assignment initially. You can make changes to your Rubric before you use it again in another assignment (not when editing an assignment).
Thanks,
Tony
Is it possible to have multiple teachers evaluate one student with the same rubric? Let me clarify. A faculty committee is interviewing several fellowship candidates and we are all using the same rubric. Would Teams Assignments allow up to 5 people to grade each student for the same “assignment” and then add up the points to get an aggregated score?
Hi Eliut,
It is not possible to do this in Microsoft Teams assignments. I would recommend adding it to the user voice site.
Thanks,
Tony
I am trying to create a rubric for an essay. The 4 main assessed areas have subtopics, so each one is worth a different point. How can I change the point value for the different levels of criteria?!
That is a good question. There is no straightforward way of doing this, but if you balance the marking weight of each criteria to reflect the overall percentage of each subtopic, you could get the same effect. e.g. If subtopic 1 is graded 1-5 and subtopic 2 is graded 1-10 then you would set the first criteria to 33% of the overall mark and the second to 66%.
I agree that it should be easier so might be something you want to post on uservoice?
Hope that helps,
Tony
Hi Tony,
If I add a Rubric to an assignment which is simply a comment ‘Excellent’ ‘Good’ etc…… is it possible to get these to publish in the Gradebook…..?
Many thanks!
That’s a good idea but not available currently. It will only insert a mark into the marksheet. It might be something you want to post on uservoice
Is it possible to have a rubric that I can use to level a piece of work so will need to be able to select more than one box for each row
Hi Andrea,
That isn’t possible. Can you please expand on the use of this?
Thanks,
Tony