TABLE OF CONTENTS

• About the Expressive Therapies Rubrics
• Video Walkthrough
• Assess Students Using the Expressive Therapies Rubric

About the Expressive Therapies Rubrics

Note: These instructions will walk you through assessing your students using the Expressive Therapies rubrics in a Blackboard Original course. If you are in a Blackboard Ultra course, instructions may be found here: Assessing Students with the Expressive Therapies Rubrics (Blackboard Ultra).

Beginning in Fall 2023 the University will begin using rubrics built into the myLesley/Blackboard courses to collect assessment data for the Expressive Therapies program and for accreditation purposes. 

The core courses that require key assignment assessments will have a rubric added into their Blackboard courses.  This rubric is not visible to the students and does not contribute to their course grade. 

Please note that you must open the rubric and click on the appropriate score in order for the scores to be recorded in the assessment report. Manually entered scores will not be recorded in the assessment report.

For instructions, please view the Video Walkthrough or the detailed step-by-step instructions below.

If your course was not copied from the development shell or a previous course containing the rubric, you may need to add the rubrics to your course. If the rubrics are not already in your course, please email [email protected] to request the rubric for your course. 

Video Walkthrough

The following video tutorial will walk you through the process of assessing your students using the Expressive Therapies Rubric in an Original Blackboard course. Please note that this video is not narrated.

Assess Students Using the Expressive Therapies Rubric

To assess your students using the Expressive Therapies Rubrics, locate the assessment column(s) in the Grade Center.

Go to the course Control Panel, click on Grade Center, and select Full Grade Center. This will open your Full Grade Center.

The Key Assignment Rubric grade columns will be at the far-right end of the Grade Center. Note: You may organize your grade columns as appropriate at any time.

The "ACATE" label is used only as a reporting identifier and does not denote specialization. 

Locate the first student you wish to assess. In the grade cell, click on the gray arrow in the grade cell to open a menu. Select View Grade Details.

This will bring you into the Grade Details area. From here, you will need to open the rubric to record your score. Please note that manually entered scores will not be recorded in the assessment report.

Click View Rubric to open the rubric in a new window. 

Click on the appropriate score in the rubric to record the student's score. Manually entered scores will not be recorded in the assessment report.

After selecting the appropriate score, click Save at the top of the rubric page. This will close the rubric and bring you back to the Grade Details page.

Once you are back in the Grade Details page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save to save your student's score.

To assess the next student, click on the arrows near the top of the page. 

Repeat these steps for each student and each Key Assignment.