Rubric-based (HUC) assessments
Criterion-and-level rubrics for long-form answers, extracted from your own marking scheme.
What a rubric assessment is
An assessment whose answers are too long and too open for a right/wrong key. Grading works from a rubric: a set of criteria, each with levels and descriptors, applied to each answer and producing a band plus a rationale.
Extracting a rubric
- 1Upload the marking scheme
PDF, image or DOCX — whatever your department already uses.
- 2Extraction reads it
Criteria, levels and descriptors are pulled out and mapped to learning outcomes.
- 3Correct it inline
Every field is editable before you approve. Descriptors especially — they are what the grader reasons against.
You can also build a rubric by hand, per question, without uploading anything.
How grading works
Answer books are graded criterion by criterion. For each, the grader records the detected answer verbatim, the band awarded, and its reasoning. That verbatim quote is the check: if it does not match what the student wrote, the mark is unsafe regardless of how reasonable the rationale sounds.
Rubric grading uses a model chosen specifically for band judgement on long handwritten answers, rather than the model used for generation. Grading and authoring are different jobs.
Overrides
Every criterion is overridable, and your mark is final. Overrides recompute the student’s total and roll through to mastery — there is no separate reconciliation step.
Known behaviour
Rubrics saved from the quiz builder before 2026.07.1 could drop their final criterion. Existing rubrics are repaired automatically the first time they are opened — but if you have a rubric from that period you have not looked at since, open it and check the last criterion is present.