Class Participation/Discussion Board Grading Rubric

Part of your class participation is measured through the discussion question dialogue. The dialogue posted in the weekly discussion questions and the weekly summary submission count toward this criterion. Individual discussion question responses count towards the class participation requirement. Only posts in the Main classroom forum will count towards your class participation score. Participation counts as 18% of your final grade. Participation is expected 6 weeks out of our 6 week class. For each week you are required to post 2 substantive posts, 4 days of the week. This is a total of 8 S posts over the learning week. The following chart details criteria for a substantive post. Only substantive posts will be used for credit toward the weekly class participation grade. You must receive a met requirement on 3 out of 4 of the requirements below in order for a post to be counted as substantive. If you do not meet the requirement, detailed feedback will be given to you for implementation on future dialogues. An S or a U will be posted next to your responses so you will know if a response is considered substantive or unsubstantive.

Substantive posts include

• Encourage additional discussion by asking follow-up questions so that your fellow students think more deeply.

Met requirement

Did not meet requirement

• Share your own experiences in relationship to the topics being discussed.

Met requirement

Did not meet requirement

• Suggest other solutions; constructively disagree at times.

Met requirement

Did not meet requirement• Refer to course readings; apply these

course readings; ask your fellow colleagues how they are applying the course readings.

Met requirement

Did not meet requirement

You can earn up to 100 percent each week for participation. Each week will count as 3.0 percent of the total 18% you can earn for Participation. Substantive posts are graded on the following criteria:

Grammar and Spelling

Reference to text, work experience,

and additional study materials (critical thought)

Word Count – Please see word

count specifications

below.

Substantive Post Minimum

25 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week- student consistently has no grammar and spelling errors on almost every post.

25 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – student refers to application of material through the above means in more than 4 dialogues

25 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – student meets the word count specifications on more than 4 dialogues

25 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – equals 4.6875 percent for each post counted as substantive. Your summary post makes up one of the posts counted toward this criterion. Please see the summary post rubric for more details.

18 to 24 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – very few grammar and spelling errors.

18 to 24 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week –Utilizes 4 resources at some time during the weekly discussion by integrating the texts into the context of the dialogue.

18 to 24 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week –meets or closely meets specified criteria on at least 4 dialogues.

15 to 18 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – Some grammatical errors however the flow of the post is not disturbed.

10 to 15 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week-Utilizes at least 2 resources at some time during the weekly discussion by integrating the texts into the context of the dialogue.

10 to 15 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week-Does not meet the word count criteria, however the added words are useful to the meaning of the post.

10 to 15 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week-Grammatical and

0 to 9 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – utilizes 1 or less

0 to 9 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week –Disregard for the

spelling errors are numerous and affect the understandability of the post.

resources during the weekly discussion.

word count is displayed in post by excessive or under word usage.

0 to 9 percent of the total 100% you can earn per week – Grammatical and spelling errors cause the reader to have no understanding of what the author is communicating.

Discussion question responses should be at least 200-300 words. For discussion question responses in the Main forum, please post responses to the threads provided. To respond, highlight the appropriate thread, click on Reply, type your response, and send. Please do not start a new thread for the weekly discussion questions in the Main forum.

Unlike your formal written assignments, I do not require that your discussion question or participation responses adhere to specific formatting requirements like those to be used for a paper, but your posts should reflect professional and academic tone and writing. However, please make sure to proofread carefully. Grammar and spelling errors may impact the grading.

I expect your discussion question responses to reflect critical thought. Whenever possible, please try to relate the course content to real-world applications from your work experience.