eLearning Grading Form

I'm not sure if this goes for the CAT 100 courses, but the assignments for my course did not come with rubrics.  I thought maybe I could do without them, but as soon as the first assignments started rolling in, I struggled with how many points to count off for this or that (especially since I didn't choose the total point value for the assignments).  For the next assignment, I decided that I definitely wanted a rubric to not only help me, but to help them see what I was looking for.  Although I could have built one using online tools such as Rubistar, I decided to try out eLearning's built in Grading Form.  You build it just as you would a rubric, and when grading student's assignments, you pull it up from the Assignment drop box, just go down the list and click the appropriate button and it calculates the final score for them and adds it to the specified column in the grade book.  The students also have access to this rubric from the assignment page so they know exactly what is expected of them.  The grades were much better than the first one and it made the assignments much easier for me to grade.  When I returned the graded assignments back to the students, they were able to see exactly what I counted off for.  If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend it for assignments...I know that I will be using it from now on :)