Hi Andy and Geraldine,

 

I’ve had very similar problems with qualitative rubrics recently; I raised a very similar issue with BtB and was told that it’s a bug – changing a no-points rubric changes the grade of the attempt, but it shouldn’t.  In our workflow, the lecturer was setting a grade, and then completing the rubric, to find that their grade had been changed.  We had to tell them to complete the rubric first, and then set the grade afterwards – a workaround but not ideal.

 

Best

Chris

 

 

Hello Andy,

 

I have been looking at qualitative BB rubrics over the last month and have noticed the same thing. When marking with the rubric the score reverts to 0 and as you have described, I have been altering the grade before submitting ‘save’.

 

Once the rubric is used to edit the grade again- it also reverts back to 0.

 

I have also tried to use the ‘Override’ grade which seems to change the grade overall, but the grading done with the rubric still shows as 0. See example below:

 

 

Any others know of a way around this (sorry to not be of much help Andy!) or is this part of the process that should be made clear to members of staff using a qual rubric?

 

Regards,

 

 

Geraldine Murphy

Learning Technologist- ALT Team of the Year 2014

 

Library and Learning Services

The University of Northampton

 

T: (01604) 893031 EXT: 3031

SKYPE: gpmurph1

 

Learning Technology - http://www.northampton.ac.uk/learntech

 

 

 

 

 

A question for anyone using Blackboard Rubrics, specifically non-scoring (“No points”) Rubrics.

 

It’s been a long week, and I can’t decide if the behaviour I’m seeing has changed from what I expected, or maybe I never tested it properly in the first place…

 

We’re on 9.1 Oct 2014 CU2.

 

I create a No Points Rubric and attach it to a Blackboard Assignment.

 

I then go in to grade submitted work.

 

I open the Rubric and mark the appropriate cells.

 

When I Save the Rubric, the grade immediately changes from – to 0 (that’s the bit I don’t remember happening in the past).

 

I can then type in a grade before pressing Save or Submit.

 

But if I return to this attempt and change anything at all in the Rubric – even if I just add some textual feedback – when I Save the Rubric, the grade reverts to 0, overriding what was previously there.

 

Has it always been like that?

 

I don’t suppose there’s a workaround, other than warning markers about this behaviour?

 

thanks

 

Andy

 

 

Andy Turner

 

TEL Applications Manager

Centre for Quality, Support and Development

University of Reading

Room 203, Whiteknights House

Whiteknights

Reading RG6 6AH

 

Tel. 0118 378 6128

 

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