Using AI to Streamline Rubrics in Canvas
Dive into the practical application of artificial intelligence in the classroom with this "30 Minute Mastery" session, hosted by the university's Academy for Teaching and Learning. This workshop is designed to show you how to enhance the quality of your grading, reduce administrative stress, and increase your instructional efficiency.
Led by Professor Mike Thompson from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this session provides a comprehensive guide to generating and integrating digital rubrics within the Canvas LMS. Discover how AI can act as your teaching partner, helping you build consistent, professional assessment tools that align with accreditation standards.
In this session, you will learn:
- The Value of AI-Assisted Rubrics: Understand how these tools improve grading consistency, speed up student feedback, and provide essential data for accreditation processes like ABET and SACS.
- Prompt Engineering for Educators: Watch a demonstration on how to provide assignment context and professional standards to an LLM to generate a high-quality initial draft.
- Refining Results with "Pages": Learn how to use fine-grained editing features within AI interfaces to tweak specific criteria without restarting the entire prompt.
- Navigating Canvas "Gotchas": Get a clear breakdown of hidden Canvas settings, specifically how to enable "Enhanced Rubrics" to allow for external file imports.
- The CSV Workflow: Master the step-by-step process of downloading a Canvas template, populating it using AI, and importing it back into your course while avoiding common formatting errors.
The presentation concludes with a live demonstration of attaching a newly created rubric to a lab assignment, ensuring it moves from "Draft" status to a live tool ready for student view.