Creating a Holistic Rubric in D2L Brightspace

Overview

This article explains how instructors can create a holistic rubric in D2L Brightspace. Holistic rubrics use a single criterion to evaluate overall performance based on defined levels of achievement, rather than assessing multiple separate criteria.

Holistic rubrics are commonly used when instructors want to assess overall quality or mastery of an activity using descriptive performance levels.

1. Click the Assessments menu in the navbar.
2. Click Rubrics.
3. Click New Rubric.
4. Enter a Name for your rubric.
5. From the Type menu select Holistic rubric.

• Holistic: Holistic, single criterion rubrics (one-dimensional) are used to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on overall description of achievement levels.

6. Choose the Scoring option. Points is the default option.

• No Score: Levels are indicated by text only (e.g., "Exceeds", "Meets", "Does Not Yet Meet", etc.). No numerical values are associated with levels. 
• Percentage: Levels use percentage values (e.g., "Exceeds (100%)", "Meets (75%)", etc).

7. By default, there will be 4 Levels (rows):

• To add Rubric levels, click the + Add new level before button or + Add new levels after button
• To delete Rubric levels, click the trash can icon next to the level

8. Add a description of each criterion Level.
9. Click to expand Options, and customize the following:

• Rubric Visibility
• Score Visibility
• Description
• Advanced Availability

10. In the top right corner, assure the auto-save status displays Saved and the rubric status is Published.

11. Click Close to finish creating your rubric.

Outcome

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