iRubric: Discussion rubric

Excellent postings address the discussion forum questions and clearly show that the student understands course readings, class discussions, or other relevant information to the topic. Postings may include appropriate quotations and links to online resources. Postings are appropriately timed and meet or exceed the minimum number required. Posts are straight to the point, clearly worded, and respond to the question in a constructive manner.

Discussion postings are timely and relevant, and the student meets (but does not exceed) the minimum number of postings per week. Student quotations suppport the main point and/or readings, and any given links are relevant to the topic. However, in some fashion the student does not address all elements of the prompt or does not post across the week (i.e. all posts are on the same day) to meet the Excellent standard.

Posting may address one element of a prompt, but fails to completely deal with the topic. Postings are not distributed through the week (i.e. all postings are made in one day). Student does not post on all forum topics posted during any one week.

Posting misses the main point (or points) of the question. Instead, discussion postings add nothing measurable to the forum. For example, many of the postings are "I think so too" or "I disagree" without elaboration of thinking or appropriate quotations. Or there is excessive quoting (from readings or websites) without any significant supporting evidence of the topic.

Made no attempt to effectively answer the question in the discussion forum.