In this item, it is explained how to set up conditional requirements for an assignment. This could, for instance, be adhering to the APA bibliography, language requirements, spelling, and grammar.
It can be done in three ways with different (dis)advantages.
The assessment of conditional requirements in a separate column in Brightspace comes with extra actions for the instructor. If you want to work with conditional requirements, we suggest using the first option.
1. Include it in the primary rubric
It is possible to process one or more conditional requirements in the rubric that you use for grading. You add these criteria to the rubric, but you do not add points to this criteria. In this way, you can put conditional requirements as well as content requirements for the submitted product in one rubric.
In case the student does not fulfill the requirements, you can give the final grade of 0 or 1 (depending on the agreements made in the academy) . The students can see their feedback that way, but will not see a grade.
This is the simplest method.
Please, discuss within the study whether this means that students have to do an official resit in a new point of submission.
Conditional rubric
It is possible to put the conditional requirements in a separate rubric. This can be done for the second and third way of working. For the way that was described above, it is not necessary.
- Go to Course Tools > Rubrics in the navigation bar of your course.
- Click on New Rubric.
3. Put Scoring to points.
4. The amount of points in Niet voldaan (fail) is 0 points, and for Voldaan (pass) is 1.
5. Click on Close.
2. Work with a secondary rubric
When you want to use the conditional requirements, you can link these to an assignment as a second rubric. The advantage of this is that you can fill out the conditional and the content rubric right after each other as they are linked to the same assignment.
Do you want to know how to create a rubric first? Click here.
The disadvantage is that you will only see one rubric in the Gradebook (the "scoring rubric). To see whether a student has met the requirements, you will have to open the submission attempt.
3. Work with a separate column in the Gradebook
Another option is to create a separate column in the gradebook, where you can link the conditional rubric to. With this option, you have to open the conditional rubric in a separate tab, after you have already opened the work of the student. The advantage is that the Gradebook will show the score as well as meeting the requirements immediately.
The disadvantage of the separate column is that the submitted work (with linked content rubric) and the conditional rubric have to be opened separate from each other. This means that you have to work in two different tabs at the same time when grading students.
Follow the steps described below to order the conditions in this way.
Choose again for New and now for Item.
Choose Numeric.
If you do not want to work with a rubric for conditions, but you do want a column for conditions, it is possible to do so. You can the, for example, choose a Pass/fail item. When a student meets the requirements, you select Pass, and otherwise you select Fail.
You can go through the steps described below, but will not link a rubric. See the example below.
Do you want to work with a rubric that contains the conditional requirements? Then continue reading.
- Enter a title.
- Choose the category you have created.
- Add the amount of points (in this example we use 3 points because the conditional requirements rubric contains three requirements).
- Choose a Grade Scheme: "Voldoet aan voorwaarden".
- In case you want to use a rubric, like in this example, add the rubric here.
- Click Save and Close.
You have now created an extra column in the Gradebook with which you can assess the conditional requirements. In case you need to, you can reaorder the columns via More actions > Reorder.