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Feedback criteria help learners craft excellent responses when completing practice activities. In turn, these criteria help graders measure how well learners exhibit various skills or qualities, such as speaking with confidence and clarity. Responses are graded on a five-part scale, and these grades are shared with learners, creating a feedback cycle by which skills can be continuously improved.

Feedback criteria can be added to most Practice elements and to On-Demand Practice scenarios. Select Add Feedback Criteria under the Grading Resources tab to launch the criteria menu.

Content builders can select from 34 out-of-the-box feedback criteria or create custom criteria to use with practice activities. You can also Search Feedback Criteria to jump directly to a known item.

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To create new feedback, select Create New. You will be prompted to name your new criterion and describe it in more detail so learners understand what to practice and how they'll be assessed.

When you're finished, select Create Criterion. You can now choose it from the criteria menu.

To edit or delete a criterion, select the pencil icon.

You can change the criterion's title or description, or delete it altogether. Note that changes made to a criterion will apply everywhere it appears, including existing learner report cards. As such, you should not make edits that substantively change the feedback criterion’s meaning.

Need to change the meaning of a criterion? Delete it and create a new criterion with the updated meaning. This will preserve the integrity of existing report cards.

When users encounter practice elements that include feedback criteria, the criteria will appear under the header "Tips"

Practice elements with feedback criteria are graded on a five-level rating scale. The levels are as follows:

Only one rating can be selected for each criterion.

Mouse over the rating icons to reveal their meanings...

...and mouse over the info bubbles to reveal each criterion's definition.

At this time, it's not possible to exclude attributes from the rating scale. As a workaround, use the answer key to instruct graders to use only certain attributes, as pictured below.

In the Grading Station, you can review learner submissions, apply guidance from an answer key (if available), rate feedback criteria, and mark responses correct or incorrect. You can also use a text box to explain why an answer is right or not, or leave other kinds of feedback.

Once lessons or practice scenarios have been graded, learners can view their report cards by navigating to the end of either one.

On the Insights tab, under Learner Impact, users with people permissions can view the highest and lowest rated feedback criteria. Mouse over the gray bars to view the total count of each rating.

Want to see All Feedback Criteria Ratings in one place? There's a report for that!

Clicking this link will generate a CSV file that lists the grades learners received for each practice task. Look for the column titled "Rating."

Here is a complete list of the 34 feedback criteria included by default. These criteria cannot be edited or deleted.