Rubrics

The rubric library

Save a rubric once, grade against it in every course you teach.

You wrote a good rubric for Assignment 3. Next term you teach the same course again, or you teach two sections of it at once. The rubric library is where that rubric goes so you do not write it twice.

Your personal library is included on both plans.

Saving a rubric

From any assignment, publish its rubric to the library. It saves the structure and the rubric items: the thinking, not the student data.

Screenshotthe publish to library dialog on an assignment

Using it again

Open the library from the sidebar and you will see everything you have saved. Clone an entry into another of your courses and it arrives as an assignment you can grade against immediately.

Screenshotrubric library showing saved entries

Cloning takes a copy. Editing the copy does not touch the original, and editing the original does not reach back into courses you already cloned it into. That is deliberate: a rubric you are actively grading against should never change under you because someone edited a library entry.

Sharing with your department

Your own library is yours, free, always. What the full version adds is sharing it sideways: publishing a rubric to other teachers in your department, so a multi-section course grades from the same playbook instead of five slightly different ones.

Shared rubrics are copies too, and they do not cross between schools.

Verify before publishverify who can actually share on the full version - sharing appears to need department-level authority, so a regular teacher may not be able to do it even after upgrading. Describe the real path, or this section sends teachers looking for a button they will never have
Verify before publishdocument what happens to a library entry when the course it came from is archived or deleted.