ThinkCERCA provides two mechanisms for grading Writing Lessons: Rubric Score and Quick Score.
Differences Between Quick Score and Rubric Score
Use the Quick Score to quickly and easily give students feedback on their writing. You may provide feedback and assign a personal growth focus to help students determine where they should concentrate their efforts on their next assignments. You can score assignments on a 4-point or 5-point scale with Quick Score.
Use the Rubric Score to provide consistent, standards-aligned feedback. In addition to providing input on your students' writing overall, you may include additional, specific comments on each component of the rubric. As in the Quick Score method, you may also assign each student a personal growth focus.
Hello Partners, follow these steps to grade and provide feedback on writing using Rubric Score.
- Navigate to the Classes page.
- Select the blue “Needs Feedback” icon from the progress bar on a class tile or select “View Class Planner” and select the icon from your assignment list.
- Select the “Give Feedback” option from the “Writing” column. Scoring can also be completed on the “In Revision” status.
- Select the "Rubric Score" to see students' written responses.
- Scoring will open to the selected student’s response. Navigate to other students by selecting the student name dropdown from the top or selecting the “Next Student” arrow below the writing.
- To view student responses in the context of the original assignment, select "View Student's Full Work" by clicking on the 3 dots to the right of the student writing.
- Comment directly on the student’s writing by doubleclicking a word or highlighting a selection. Type your comment in the box and select “Save.”
- Expand the rubric by selecting the carrot to the left of “Rubric.”
- Select the comment icon below the selected score for this category, type your feedback, and select “Comment & Continue” to move to the next category. Select “More” to view the full criteria for a category score.
- You may also simply select the score tile to move on without providing any feedback for that category.
- Once done selecting the rubric category scores, you will land on the Overall tab. Here, you can provide students with overall feedback for their work and select a Growth Focus for the student from the dropdown.
- Hover over the plagiarism detector to see the likelihood of human writing.
- Click "Submit with Score" or "Return for Revision" if you would like the student to continue working a resubmit.
- Teachers can also “Submit without Score” for any students who did not complete or completed outside of the platform. This will remove the assignment from the students “Current Assignments” list.
Thank you for your work and your partnership with us.