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re08 1/14/2010 9:13:57

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Reima Al-Jarf, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, reemasado@msn.com//
 * Creating and Sharing iRubrics Using RCampus**

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use way. It can be used by individual faculty and can also provide educators with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. iRubric saves grading time so that teachers can spend more time teaching. Students receive a copy of the scored rubric securely, which spares teachers time and paperwork needed for calculations. Rubric scores are automatically adjusted to the coursework grading scale and posted on the gradebook in the online course.

Rubrics can be shared with tens of thousands of other members through the RCampus rubric gallery. Teachers can find a rubric that they like and appropriate it for their use, bookmark rubrics from the RCampus Rubric Gallery for future reference, or showcase their rubrics on their RCampus website.

Rubrics can be collaboratively assessed with colleagues, classes and other individuals. Students and colleagues can be engaged in building classroom activities, assessing ePortfolios, or using the powerful collaborative assessment tools as surveys and evaluation mechanisms.

The presentation shows how rubrics can be created for instructor use in English-as-a-foreign-language reading and writing courses and for students using the iRubric tool of RCampus, an open access online course management system (www.rcampus.org). Sample reading rubrics will be used for illustration.

All Audiences rubrics, RCampus, reading rubric, EFL