HSE 400 Wk 1

Grading Rubrics

1. Discussion Forum Rubric

Participation in discussion forums is critical to the successful completion of this course. Please keep in mind the following guidelines to help you develop and formulate sound, thought-provoking responses and earn the maximum grade available.

General Guidelines

Take the time to organize your thoughts prior to formulating your response. Use proper citations and formatting when stating examples or quoting sources. Carefully proofread your response before submitting it to the forum. Provide peer feedback using polite and courteous language. Post substantive contributions. Posts such as "I agree" or "Good job" will not be awarded any credit in the discussion forums.

Rubric Guidelines

Engagement / Interaction counts the number of peers you interact with. To earn full credit, you must engage in a dialog with at least two or more peers. The content of your posts must be meaningful and relevant and should encourage further discussion. Participation counts the number of days you were active in each of the discussion forums in a module. To earn full credit, you must contribute to the forum over the course of two or more days for EACH forum where there are more than one in a module, not collectively. For example, if you have a course that has two discussion forums, you must participate and engage the required number of days and times for EACH forum. They do not count together. They are graded separately. Content / Topic Relevance measures you're maintaining focus on the topic being discussed. To earn full credit, all your discussion forum contributions need to address the main topic. Timeliness measures when you first post your response to the discussion forum question. To earn full credit, you must post your response to the main topic before the first post due date for each forum.

The due dates for posting your first posts in the discussion forums can be found on the course calendar, course schedule, the News and Announcement forums, or in the actual discussion forum post directions themselves. If you have any questions, contact your instructor at the appropriate email address found in the syllabus. Please note that discussion forums are graded as separate assignments. For courses that have more than one discussion forum, guidelines and requirements are for EACH forum, not collectively.

Content / Topic Knowledge measures your understanding of the course material and topic. To earn full credit you must display an excellent understanding of the material.

Discussion forum participation will be graded using the following criteria:

0 points 1 point 2 points 3 points 4 points 5 points

Engagement / Interaction

did not participate

dialog between peers was not meaningful and/or was frequently off-topic

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

engaged in a meaningful and relevant dialog with at least one peers

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

engaged in a meaningful and relevant dialog with two or more peers

Participation did not participate

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

participated on one days=

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

participated on two or more days

Content / Topic Relevance

did not participate

discussion forum contributions did not address the

discussion forum contributions rarely addressed

discussion forum contributions sometimes addressed the

discussion forum contributions very often addressed

discussion forum contributions always addressed

main topic the main topic main topic the main topic the main topic

Timeliness

did not participate or responded to main topic three or more days after first post due date

responded to main topic two days after first post due date

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

responded to main topic one day after the first post due date

N/A - no points are available for this criterion

responded to main topic the day of the first post due date

Content / Topic Knowledge

did not participate

displays poor understanding of the material

displays a fair understanding of the material

displays a good understanding of the material

displays a very good understanding of the material

displays an excellent understanding of the material