Rubrics in Scribo
Scribo offers robust rubric support, enabling you to provide students with detailed, criteria-based grades and feedback on their writing. You can quickly and easily use your own trusted rubrics by importing them, or you can create new rubrics as needed.
Rubrics can be shared across the school to ensure consistent grading standards. Scribo also provides a rubric library with both generic, genre-based rubrics and specialized rubrics for English proficiency tests, offering flexible options to meet various assessment needs
Scribo offers teachers various ways to use rubrics, to enhance learning experiences and help save time:
Manual Grading: Teachers can manually grade an activity using a rubric in Scribo's live monitoring view. Rubric grades can be numeric, letter, or label per achievement level, as well as an overall grade for the student’s work.
AI Grading: Scribo's AI can generate suggested rubric scores along with feedback for the student based on each rubric category. The feedback explains why the student received their score, along with clear advice on how to improve. Grades and feedback can always be edited by you, if needed.
Student self-assessment: You can allow students to assess their own writing against a rubric - a great way for them to truly reflect on their work. Teachers and students can then see how the student rated themselves versus the teacher’s assessment, creating opportunities for constructive discussions and personalized learning.
Peer Review: Scribo also supports peer review, which can be set up in seconds. Teachers can choose to have students grade each other’s work using a rubric, offer teacher-guided comments, or both. This fosters collaborative learning and helps students gain new perspectives by evaluating their peers’ work.
Effective Rubrics
Traditional rubrics are often designed with teachers as the primary audience, relying on their professional judgment and nuanced understanding of the criteria. This can lead to unwritten assumptions that teachers naturally bring to their grading.
Generally, it's a good idea to periodically assess your rubrics to ensure they remain effective. A great time to do this is when you bring your rubrics into Scribo with the intention of extending their use to student self-assessment or AI grading.
Here are a few things to keep in mind to make your rubrics effective:
Is the language in the rubric easy for your students to understand?
Are the expectations at each level clearly defined? (Students and AI both benefit from concise, straightforward descriptors at each achievement level.)
Is there any repetition in the rubric?
Will the rubric promote thinking amongst the students, especially in peer evaluation?
Adding Rubrics in Scribo
There are a few ways you can add rubrics in Scribo:
Copying a rubric from the Rubric Library
Scribo’s Public Rubrics Library contains more than 40 rubrics and we are adding more each day. To copy a rubric from the library, refer to the following steps:
Click the hamburger menu at the top right of your screen and choose "Manage Rubrics"
Click on ‘Public Rubrics’
Choose the rubrics that you’d like to copy. You can preview the rubric to see how it works by clicking on it
When you have chosen the rubric you would like to use, click on the three dots
Click on ‘Copy to My Rubrics’
Click Home to return to home page
Upload one of your existing rubrics (PDF, Excel, Word or Google Classroom)
To add your own rubrics from a PDF, Excel sheet, Word document or from Google Classroom, click on the down arrow on the top right corner of the page to access the following options:
Upload a Rubric PDF
Select this option and upload your own rubrics in PDF. After selecting a PDF file, a notification will pop up to show that the AI is reading your rubric. When your rubrics are ready, you can edit the rubric and make changes to the general information and the criterion. You can also test the rubric to ensure it scores as expected.
Paste from Excel/Word
Select this option if you have your own rubrics in a table in Excel or Word.
To add the rubric, copy the table information from your Excel spreadsheet or Word document and paste it into the box shown. Once the rubric has been created, you can make changes to the general information and the criterion, and test the rubric to ensure it grades as expected.
Import Google Classroom Rubric
Choose this option to import a rubric that you have exported from Google Classroom. Once the rubric has been created, you can make changes to the general information and the criterion, and test the rubric to ensure it grades as expected.
Create your own rubric from scratch
Select this option if you would like to create your own rubrics from scratch. Follow the tabs along the left to set up your rubric information. :
General includes information such as the name and description for the rubric, the subject and grades it is applicable to, and whether the rubric uses score ranges for each achievement level within the criteria (e.g. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6).
Criteria: In this section you can define specific criteria and their associated achievement levels, which will be used to evaluate student work. Below are the steps to set up a rubric criterion and achievement levels:
Add a Criterion
In the
Criterionfield, enter the name of the criterion you want to evaluate (e.g., "Clarity of Argument").Optionally, you can add a detailed description of the criterion in the text box below the criterion name. This description will provide additional context for how the criterion will be evaluated (e.g., "The clarity of the argument refers to how well the student presents their point of view in a structured and understandable manner").
Define Achievement Levels
Scroll down to the section titled What are the possible achievement levels for this criterion?. Here, you can set specific achievement levels, defining the score for each level.
To create an achievement level:
If you are using score ranges, enter a Minimum Score and a Maximum Score for that level. This determines the range of points that correspond to this particular achievement level.
Otherwise, enter a single score for the level.
Add an optional Achievement Label (e.g., "Exceeds Expectations", "Meets Expectations", "Needs Improvement") to clearly define what the score range represents. If you use an achievement label, we will use this when grading instead of showing numeric scores.
Provide a description that elaborates on what this achievement level entails (e.g., "The student presents a compelling argument with clear reasoning and logical flow").
You can add multiple achievement levels by clicking the + Add Achievement Level button. For each additional level, repeat the process of defining the score range, label, and optional description.
Organizing Achievement Levels
You can rearrange the order of achievement levels by using the up and down arrows on the right side of each achievement level row.
If you need to remove an achievement level, click the delete icon (trash can symbol) next to the level.
Saving Your Rubric
Once you have defined the criteria and achievement levels, click the Save Changes button at the bottom right of the screen.
You can continue to add more criteria, or finalize the rubric by simply clicking 'Rubrics' at the top of the screen to return to the library.
Once saved to your library, the rubric will be available for you to choose when setting up an activity.
Adding a rubric to grade in Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish or Portuguese
Scribo is mainly for English writing, but we also support rubric grading in Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, and Portuguese.
When you choose one of these languages, Scribo will automatically switch your writing task to Cold Write mode. This means students won’t get writing feedback as they type—but they will still receive detailed rubric feedback when you grade their work via the rubric, or choose to allow them to grade their own work with the rubric.
The rubric feedback will tell students:
What they did well
Why they got their grade
How they can improve
To set this up:
In the General tab of the rubric setup, select your feedback language in the 'Feedback Language' dropdown.
Make sure all rubric criteria and achievement levels are written in the same language you choose.
4. Create a Scribo writing task, ensuring the writing prompt is written in your chosen language, e.g. in Bahasa Indonesian.
5. Click on the Grading & Feedback tab, and choose your rubric in the task that you would like the students to write in one of these languages.
6. Click Assign to assign the activity to your class. Instruct your students to write their response in your chosen language, e.g. in Bahasa Indonesian.
7. When students have finished their writing, you can use AI to grade their work against your rubric.