Annotate PRO: Dynamic Rubrics

Have you ever used a rubric only to wish you could quickly say, “Yes, AND…”?

AP Dynamic Rubrics take a different approach. They give educators the ability to quickly provide precise, personalized feedback while creating a friendly, organized, narrative response for students.

How is AP different? (We break down three ways to harness Dynamic Rubrics in this blog post for a more detailed overview.) Lets take a look at Canvas’ approach to rubrics.

In Canvas, the instructor clicks on the performance level and, optionally, clicks the little comment bubble below the numeric grade where they can further personalize the response. Even though our example is an analytic rubric, if the student received Proficient they’d get a grab bag of feedback. Which items apply to their work?

Here’s the instructor view of the same criterion in AP:

In an AP Dyanamic Rubric, the instructor can:

1. Keep the rubric open as they move from student to student, saving hundreds of clicks.
2. Keyboard and accessibility-friendly tabbing to move through the choices. Tap the space bar to make a choice. Or mouse click. Your choice.
3. Optionally choose just ONE option (for instance) from the Exceeds performance level.
4. Check off optional Strengths or other forms of additional feedback. The recipient only sees categories and choices you’ve checked.
5. Insert the resulting choices, including a calculated grade, anywhere they can type. End of a Google Doc? Canvas Assigment Comments? Gradebook entry? No problem.

Intrigued? Let’s break it down further.

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AP Dynamic Rubrics

AP rubrics make it easy to include granular feedback.

Check off any applicable statements or add personalized text:

Students receive narrative feedback – in Canvas, Google Docs.
Anywhere you can type.

AP Dynamic Rubrics…

1. Are easy to create. Just type! No fussy “add a column” buttons.
2. Can be shared with 5, 50, or 500 instructors with a few clicks (requires an institutional license).
3. Can be used over and over in an LMS like Canvas, Google Docs, Microsoft Word Online and for face-to-face assessment of presentations and similar.