Text 1 Define Your Goal

Before you can create a rubric, you need to decide the type of rubric you'd like to use, and that will largely be determined by your goals for the assessment.

Ask yourself the following questions:

How detailed do I want my feedback to be? 
How will I break down my expectations for this project?
Are all of the tasks equally important?
How do I want to assess performance?
What standards must the students hit in order to achieve acceptable or exceptional performance?
Do I want to give one final grade on the project or a cluster of smaller grades based on several criteria?
Am I grading based on the work or on participation? Am I grading on both?

Once you've figured out how detailed you'd like the rubric to be and the goals you are trying to reach, you can choose a type of rubric.