[Portfolio] iRubric for Sakai

[Sean Keesler]

Amen to that.

It's really messed up that we would ever have rubrics tools "over
here" and some others "over there".
Ramesh Sabetiashraf left a comment on my blog where he introduced me
to his good work...it was the first I heard of it.

It would be wonderful if a capability for integrating rubric creation,
sharing and enforcing rubrics was available in community Sakai. If we
all agreed that assessment of ePortfolios should also happen in the
gradebook (and why not?), I suppose that integration would be great.
Reporting would be simple, since it is likely stored as data in tables
(go figure!) and would be easily accessed with SQL.

That being said, I think that the stuff Jan and I built isn't too
shabby. Given the existing schema and renderer, making rubric forms
really wouldn't be too tough (qualified for the OSP scale of
"toughness" ;).

We finally put an inital release up on openedpractices as a "practice":
http://openedpractices.org/practice/assessing-student-learning-using-aacu-value-rubrics

...and as a downloadable package:
http://openedpractices.org/resource/aacu-essential-learning-outcomes-matrix-and-value-rubrics

It takes about 2 minutes to get, import and publish the matrix, forms
and glossary to try it out.

Or....if you don't have 2 minutes and you want to do some QA   ;)  ....
...it's up on http://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086/portal

Login as aacucoord/aacucoord or aacustudent/aacustudent to check it out.

All feedback is welcome...particularly on the rubric forms.


Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, New York 13104 USA
315-663-7756
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com



On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Ward, Lynn E. <leward at iupui.edu> wrote:
> Yes, the IU School of Education in Bloomington contracted with RCampus to
> develop an integration with the Sakai gradebook.  The iRubric application
> allows you to create and share clickable analytic rubrics with weighted
> criteria.  The Sakai integration makes it possible to associate a specific
> rubric with a gradebook item.  From there, you can open a copy of the rubric
> for each student and click the appropriate level (with description) for each
> criterion.  This results in a total score that is fed to the gradebook item
> for that student.  I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen of the product
> thus far and the main developer at RCampus (it’s a small shop and I believe
> he also owns the company) has been very accommodating.  I know that he has
> developed a bunch of custom reports for our SoE.  I’d like to see a
> something like this in Sakai that can be used in conjunction with any work
> that is graded or evaluated (assignments, forums, portfolios, etc.).  I
> don’t know whether the iRubric developer plans to take the integration any
> further at this point.  In the long term, I think we’d be better off with a
> native Sakai tool for creating and sharing rubrics.  As Sean and others have
> demonstrated, it’s possible to create a clickable rubric in OSP using a
> custom renderer.  But we really need a friendlier solution—one that allows
> faculty to create rubrics and apply rubrics without the assistance of a
> developer.
>
>
>
> Lynn
>
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>
> ==========================
>
> Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst, Academic and Faculty Services
>
> University Information Technology Services
> Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
> Information Technology and Communications Complex (IT 218R)
> 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
> Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iupui.edu
>
>
>
> From: portfolio-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:portfolio-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Summers,
> Teggin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:49 AM
> To: portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Portfolio] iRubric for Sakai
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I was wondering if any of you have used the iRubric for Sakai
> (http://www.rcampus.com/sakai/)?  I know that Indiana is using it.  Lynn,
> are you familiar with iRubric?
>
>
>
> If anybody has had any experience with it and wants to share, we’d be really
> interested in hearing your thoughts.  Feel free to email me off list or post
> to the group if you think others would find your thoughts/experiences
> compelling.
>
>
>
> All best,
>
>
>
> Teggin
>
>
>
> Teggin Summers, Ph.D.
>
> | Assistant Director, ePortfolio Initiatives| 2210B Torgersen Hall
>
> | Learning Technologies | Virginia Tech
>
> | teggin at vt.edu | (540) 231-0982 | http://eportfolio.vt.edu
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