Every assignment you give has a produce step and a grade step. Between them sits a submit button, and that button is a signature. Most students have never been told what they are signing for.
In about twenty minutes you are going to take one assignment you already give and add a verification step: a claim the student signs, evidence that backs the claim, and a rubric line that grades it. You do all of it by hand, on your own assignment. Nothing here is generated for you.
Before you start: open one real assignment. Not a hypothetical one. The session only works on something you are actually going to collect this term.
PROGRESS
0 of 14
SEED . The assignment as it stands
Describe what you collect today, before any change.
SPROUT . The claim they sign
A signature is only worth something if it covers something checkable. Write a claim you could actually disprove.
GROW . The evidence
A claim with no artifact behind it is a promise. Decide what the student hands you that proves the claim.
HARVEST . The grade, and what it costs you
An ungraded step is a suggestion. Give it weight and write the rubric line.
ONE MORE THING
That is one assignment. Look at field 14 again, the number you just wrote down, and multiply it by every student in the section. Then count the other assignments in the course that need the same step, and the other sections you teach.
You are not short on judgment. You just wrote the rubric line yourself and it is a good one. You are short on the hours it takes to write it fourteen more times and keep it consistent in week fifteen.
That is the job the Assessment Builder does. It writes assignments, rubrics and tagged question banks against your Course Record, so the verification line you just wrote reads the same in every assignment in the course without you retyping it. Do this first one by hand anyway. You need to know what the step feels like before you hand it to anything.
We use cookies to improve your experience and analyze site traffic. By continuing, you agree to our Cookie Policy.
The Friday Harvest
One email a week. What changed in AI and higher education, and one thing you can do about it before Monday. Written by a college faculty member who still grades every week.
