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Creating an Assessable Discussion Topic

Discussion Topics can be used to facilitate a range of different activities where students share their ideas and information with their lecturers, tutors and classmates.

Some of these will be assessable tasks and activities, so associating a Rubric and linking to a Grade Item make the process of assessment transparent to students.

To make a discussion topic gradable and link it to a grade item:

You can edit an existing topic or create a new discussion topic in this example we will edit an existing topic. For information on creating a discussion topic see this guide.

  • Navigate to Discussions. In the Actions menu for a discussion topic, click Edit Topic.
  • To add your topic to the grade book, enter a value in Grade Out Of.  
  • From the drop-down next to the grade book select to create a new grade item or assign to an existing one.

Enter a grade

In the Evaluation & Feedback accordion, do the following

  • Click Add Rubric to attach a rubric to your discussion topic.
  • Click Manage Learning Objectives to associate learning objectives to your discussion topic.
  • Select Allow evaluation of individual posts to assign scores to posts, and then select your Calculation Method. You can also choose to Include unevaluated posts in the topic score calculation as zero.

Add rubric and post calculation