Tip: Create a Holistic Rubric in D2L

Holistic rubrics allow you to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on a single criteria using predefined achievement levels.

Holistic rubrics may use a percentages or text only scoring method. Percentage holistic rubrics have a percentage range associated with each achievement level, which allows users' quiz and grade item activities to automatically be assigned an achievement level based on their quiz score or grade. Other activities may also be evaluated with percentage holistic rubrics, you just have to manually enter users' achievement levels.

1. Click Rubrics on your course navbar.
2. Click New Rubric in the top tool menu of the Rubric List page.
3. Enter a Rubric Name and Description.
4. Select Holistic in the rubric Type drop-down.
5. Select how many achievement levels you want the rubric to have in the Initial # of Levels field.
6. Select either Percentages or Text Only for the scoring method.
7. Select whether you want the rubric to be associated with Competencies.
8. Click Save.