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Copying Blackboard Rubrics into your Ultra course

This article deals with Blackboard Rubrics, which can be used when marking Blackboard assignments. There is a different process for copying Turnitin Rubrics. You can copy Blackboard Rubrics into your Ultra course from any other course on which you are enrolled as an Instructor – whether Ultra or Original.

Important: currently Blackboard does not support non-scoring rubrics. If you copy a non-scoring rubric from an Original course, in Ultra it will be converted into a scoring rubric, but with 0 points associated with each criterion.

Copy Rubrics

Step 1: In the Ultra course that you want to copy the Rubric(s) into, click on the three dots near the top right of the main course page, and select Copy Items.

Screenshot of an Ultra course showing the Copy Items option

Step 2: Search for the course you want to copy the rubrics from.

Search for course to copy from

Step 3: Expand the course and scroll down until you find ‘Rubrics’.

Copy Items - Rubrics

Step 5: You can then tick the box to copy all rubrics in that course; or expand the Rubrics section in order to select specific rubrics.

Copy selected rubrics

Step 6: When done, press Start Copy.

The rubrics will be copied into the course. Once the copy has completed, you will be able to select any copied rubric and attach it to an assignment.

View Rubrics on course

You can view all of the rubrics in your Ultra course by going to the Gradebook, clicking on the Settings (cog wheel icon), then scrolling down to the ‘Rubrics’ section.

Important: currently Blackboard does not support non-scoring rubrics. If you copy a non-scoring rubric from an Original course, in Ultra it will be converted into a scoring rubric, but with 0 points associated with each criterion.


Guide last updated on January 26, 2024

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