Upload and Optimize Your Rubric
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Walkthrough
Three input paths: paste text, upload a PDF or image, or start from the library. Use whichever matches what you already have. There is no need to rebuild the rubric first.
Review the extraction. TA39 structures the rubric into criteria and performance levels. Check that:
- All criteria are present.
- Levels are in the right order.
- Nothing was merged, dropped, or mislabeled.
If two criteria were combined during extraction (common with rubrics that used merged cells or color-coding in the original), separate them now.
Run Optimize with AI. This flags places where the rubric may be too vague or hard to apply consistently — descriptors like "effective" or "adequate," levels that sound too similar, criteria that are doing more than one job at once.
Treat each suggestion as a proposal, not a decision:
- Accept suggestions that make the wording clearer without changing what you are actually assessing.
- Reject suggestions that shift the focus of a criterion in ways that don't fit the assignment or the classroom.
- Edit suggestions that are partly right — keep the helpful part, adjust the wording.
The point is not to accept every suggestion. The point is to decide what improves the rubric and what doesn't.
Save with a clear name — grade, task, purpose, term. Six weeks from now, "Essay rubric final" won't tell you which rubric this was. "G10 Argument Essay — Formative — Term 2" will.
What to read or watch next
Once you've optimized one rubric, From Good Enough to Clear and Fair takes the deeper view on rubric quality and includes the Rubric Analysis Protocol exercise.