Scoring is used to assign numerical scores or grades to outcomes for learners as they complete projects.
Main benefits of scoring:
Efficiently retrieve numeric scores based on custom rubrics for every learner and team in your experience
Automatically synchronize scores to grades in your LMS of choice
Full control over grading schemes with scoring types and weights
General
Rubrics
All activity that is scored for learners and team starts with one of multiple rubrics. Rubrics can be assigned to:
Team submission - the final submission made from a team as part of their project
Milestone submission - the submission made to any milestone created by the experience.
Feedback - Feedback received from a team's project employer
These items can be considered the deliverable(s) of the rubric or the item that will be scored.
Each rubric can be configured with the following:
Points - This is how much each rubric contributes to the overall score. You can think of it as the "weight" of the rubric. For example, if you have 3 rubrics with point values of 2, 2, and 5, the total score possible would be 9 points. A learner who scores perfectly would get 9 out of 9.
Scoring system - What determinant is used to generate a score:
Scoring system | Description |
Completion | The deliverable itself existing, such as submission made or feedback received. |
Assessment | The native score of the deliverable itself. These include:
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Scoring type - How scoring will be conducted:
Scoring type | Scoring system | Description |
Automatic | Completion | Full points are automatically awarded. |
| Assessment | The deliverables native score will be used to automatically award the correct fractional number of points. For example, if feedback received was 4/5 and the rubric was worth 10, 8 points would be awarded. |
Learners & team scoring
Since all potentially scored deliverables are team deliverables and not individual, all scores are computed for each team and each individual within the team is given the same score as their team score.
Learners will always be able to see any enabled rubrics you have set, along with their criteria and scoring mechanisms. They will be able to see these on the experience page, their team pages and any deliverables pages before and after they create or receive their deliverable.
Employers
Employers who are part of projects being completed by your learners will never be shown any scoring information, including rubrics or scores teams have received.
LMS grade passback
The scoring system can be configured to automatically send a team's score to any integrated LMS as the grade for an assignment (or its LMS equivalent). Once a team’s final deliverable is scored, their grade will be automatically passed back to the LMS.
If a team's score ever changes, the new grade will be passed back to the LMS as their new score. Depending on your LMS, this may overwrite existing scores or you may be asked to accept, or ignore, the grade "edit" inside your LMS.
Updating scoring
While some scoring or grading systems lock scoring options once learners have begun activity, you will always remain in control of how and when or what learners are scored on even after activity has begun.
Turning rubrics off - If you decide to turn rubric off, meaning you no longer wish to score a particular deliverable, all new and historical teams will be impacted. That rubric will be removed from their overall score and learners will no longer be able to see the rubric or any historical score they have have received.
Turning rubrics on - If you decide to turn a new rubric on, meaning you want to score a new deliverable, all new and historical teams will be impacted. That rubric will be added to their overall score and learners will now see the rubric. Once you add a rubric, you may want to or need to synchronize all historical activity of learners and teams. For example, if you add a milestone submission rubric and teams have already made submission to it, you can choose to synchronize historical activity to have scores generated for those teams.
Changing a rubric's points - If you decide to change the weight of a rubric, the new weighting will be automatically applied to any prior scores. For example, if a team has a score of 2/3 on a rubric, and you change the weight to 6, their new score will be 4/6.
Changing systems or types - If you decide to change a scoring system or type, it will only affect new scores going forward and not historical scores.
How to
Enable or disable scoring
To enable scoring on an experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Scoring" in the "Project Management" group
Check or uncheck "Scoring enabled for learners and teams"
Click "Save"
Configure rubrics
To configure scoring rubrics on an experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Scoring" in the "Project Management" group
In the "Rubric settings" section, configure your rubrics as needed including enabling specific rubrics, setting points, and scoring systems and types.
Click "Save"
Note that you can configure rubrics without having scoring enabled. Rubrics will only be in affect if the experience has scoring enabled.
Synchronize scoring
If you have made non historical impact rubric configuration changes and you want to apply them historically, you can synchronize scoring setting by following these steps:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Scoring" in the "Project Management" group
Click the "Synchronize scoring" button
Confirm you want to synchronize scoring
Note that score synchronizing happens asynchronously as it may take a few minutes to synchronize all scores depending on how many teams your experience has.
Enable or disable LMS grade passback
To enable scores to be passed back to an integrated LMS on an experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Scoring" in the "Project Management" group
Check or uncheck "Passback score to integrated LMS assignment as grade"
Click "Save"
Note that scoring on the experience must be enabled for this option to appear.
View a team's score
To view an individual team's score:
Navigate to the team
In the sidebar you will see their overall score along with links to each rubric and that team's score against it
View a rubric
To view the details of an individual rubric that is part of your experience's scoring
Navigate to the experience
View enabled rubrics in the sidebar
Click to view details
Learners also have access to this page.