For many (all) learning activities that will be graded, creating rubrics make a lot of sense. Picking 4-5 key learning objectives and defining a scale for assessing points helps define the activity and provides students with guidelines for completing the activity – assuming they actually read the rubric.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

While many teachers want to use rubrics or are experimenting with writing rubrics, they can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

Rubistar -Create Rubics for your Project-Based Learning Activities
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