Rubric Maker

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Make a grading rubric from a criteria bank, every cell ready to edit. Teachers print an analytic rubric, a single-point rubric and a student self-check from one input, free.

US Letter (11 × 8.5 in) [279 × 216 mm]

Start from the criteria bank

Each one fills the title, the criteria and every description with starter text you can edit.

One criterion per line, up to 8. To weight one, add its points after a bar: Organization | 20

Levels

Lowest to highest, separated by commas.

Cells

Typed text prints your descriptions and shrinks them to fit; open a criterion below to edit its cells. Writing lines and empty cells are for writing by hand.

Rubrics in the PDF

Points

Ranges split each criterion’s points across the levels: out of 10, or out of the points after its bar.

Heading fill

Light tints behind the headings; the text stays charcoal.

Orientation
Paper size
Line weight

A link that opens this tool with these settings, to save or share. Student names are never in it; the criteria and descriptions are.

Made for: Teachers and Homeschool

How it works

  1. Start from the criteria bank or type your own. A task fills the title, the criteria and every cell with starter text; open a criterion to edit its descriptions, add single criteria from the bank, or type one criterion per line and weight it with a bar (Organization | 20).
  2. Choose the rubrics and the scoring. Tick the analytic rubric, the single-point rubric (the standard in the middle, Concerns and Advanced columns to write in) and the student self-check. Show one number per level or point ranges, a score column, the total with comments and a grade scale.
  3. Download the PDF and print. The button shows the page count. The rubric prints landscape by default on US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) or A4 [210 × 297 mm]; print at 100% (“Actual size”). It is free, with no sign-up and no watermark.

Tips for a rubric students use

  • Teachers: hand out the self-check with the assignment. Students tick each line before they turn the work in, and you grade with the analytic rubric built from the same criteria, so the words match.
  • Teachers: paste your class list for one rubric set per student with the name already on the NAME line; it stays on this device and never goes into the page address. Copy the settings link to reuse the rubric next year or share it with a co-teacher (names are never in the link).
  • Teachers: try the single-point rubric for feedback. It lists only the standard, so your comments go where they help: what still needs work on the left, what goes beyond on the right.
  • Homeschool parents: four or five criteria are enough; a rubric with the descriptions typed in tells your child exactly what “done well” means for a report or a project.
  • Middle and high school teachers, points that add up: weight the main skill (Evidence and reasoning | 30), use ranges when you grade out of 10, and turn on the grade scale to see what A to F means in points.
  • Everyone, color without the ink bill: the headings print in a light cream by default; pick a palette color, a rainbow from low to high, or ink only.
  • Teachers, quick yes-or-no checks (name on the page, a title, three sources) fit better on a printable checklist than in a rubric row.

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