Participation Rubric for online SPAN 1004 (Intermediate Level)

4 points
Above expectations

3 points
Meets expectations

Contribution Student actively

participated in all forums
and always responded to
classmates posts.
Quality of
posts

Structure of
language

Use of the
TL

Completion
of task

Student actively
participated in all forums
and responded to
classmates posts most of
the times.
Student always
Student mostly
communicated clearly
communicated clearly
and their comments were and their comments were
always thoughtful.
mostly thoughtful.
Student contributed to
Student contributed to
further discussion or
further discussion or
introducing a new idea.
introducing a new idea.
Student consistently used Student mostly used a
a wide variety of
variety of structures and
structures and vocabulary vocabulary correctly, and
correctly and successfully used short sentences, and
used complex sentences. some attempts of more
Errors were minor.
complex sentences. Some
errors.
Student always used
Student mostly used
Spanish when writing and Spanish when writing and
responding to posts.
responding to posts.

Student always
completed the task
following the instructions
and always posted before
the deadline.

Student always
completed the task
following the instructions
and mostly posted before
the deadline.

2 points
Fairly meets
expectations
Student participated in
most of the forums and
sometimes responded to
classmates posts.

1 point
Needs work

0 points
Below expectations

Student participated in
some forums and did not
respond to classmates
posts.

Student did not

participate in forums.

Student mostly
communicated clearly
and their comments were
sometimes thoughtful.
Student contributed to
further discussion.

Student did not

communicated clearly
and their comments were
not very thoughtful.

Student is not
understandable and their
comments were not
thoughtful.

Student occasionally used

a variety of structures and
vocabulary, and used
short sentences. Errors
were frequent.

Student used basic

structures and
vocabulary, and used
short sentences. Errors
are frequent.

Student used short or

incomplete sentences.
Structures and
vocabulary were
inaccurate and incorrect
most of the time.

Student used Spanish

when writing and
responding to posts, but
also used English.

Student used Spanish

when writing and
responding to posts, but
also used English
frequently.
Student mostly
completed the task
following the instructions
and posted after the
deadline.

Student barely used

Spanish when writing and
responding to posts.

Student mostly
completed the task
following the instructions
and mostly posted before
the deadline.

Student did not complete

the task.

Participation grades are not curved, so you will be evaluated using the descriptions above and not on your performance compared to your
classmates.