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Rubrics are useful scoring tools used in various disciplines to provide feedback to students and promote learning. Traditionally, students were handed with a paper rubric which might sometimes be inaccessible to absent students. With advances in technology, rubrics can be easily embedded into a LMS such as Moodle to improve accessibility, facilitate online grading, and reduce redundant paperwork. In this study, a rubric was incorporated into a learning management system (LMS). Students (N = 59) had access to the scoring tool prior to completing their written work. After submission, the Learning Analytics Enriched Rubric—LAe-R tool was used by the instructor to provide formative feedback on students’ writing performance. Data were collected from students’ surveys, viewing rates, and essay scores to understand if there were any benefits from embedding the rubric and whether the students were satisfied with the paperless rubric as a learning and a scoring tool. The results indicated that while engaging with the rubric did not help much in predicting students’ assignment scores, most of the students were satisfied with the rubric and recommended further use of the tool.
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Allagui, B. (2019). Moving from Hardcopy to Online Submission with a Learning Analytics Enriched Rubric—LAe-R: Students’ Perspective. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 144. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8260-4_27
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