MicroCourse Handbook

FLO MicroCourses are part of the Facilitating Learning Online family of courses. Unlike the longer and more comprehensive FLO courses, MicroCourses are one week in length, single-topic, and designed to give you an immediate and practical jump on your course preparation and facilitation. 

This week, we will focus specifically on designing effective rubrics. Often touted as the panacea of good assessment practice, rubrics routinely fail to deliver on their promises - they take a lot of work to build, students rarely use them, and they don't necessarily lead to valid and reliable assessment. 

But, designed and used well, they can serve as amazing learning tools and make grading more efficient and fair. I look forward to engaging with you this week on this important topic.