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Rubric Library for Teachers
Start from a rubric that works. Every rubric you have built sits next to the ones your colleagues have shared and a collection reviewed by our team — official state assessment writing rubrics, exam-board criteria, and more. Preview one, make it yours, and grade with it in a click.
Included on the free plan. Bring your own rubric instead if you prefer — that has always worked too.
Nobody Wants to Write a Rubric on a Sunday Night
It is nine o’clock, the persuasive essays are due in on Tuesday, and the thing standing between you and being finished is a blank four-column table. You know roughly what good looks like. Writing it down in a way that will survive thirty students and one argument with a parent is the part that takes an hour. Most teachers do not want a rubric generated for them. They want a decent one in front of them that they can argue with, change, and make their own in four minutes.
Three Shelves, One Search
The library is not a catalogue you visit. It is where all your rubrics live, with two more shelves alongside your own.
Mine
Every rubric you have built or saved, including the ones you have pinned for quick reach. This is the shelf you will use most, and it fills up on its own.
Your School
Rubrics colleagues have shared. New rubrics offer school sharing at the moment you create them, which means a department builds a shared set without anyone having to administer one.
GradingPal
Ready-made rubrics reviewed by our team, across subjects and grade levels, and deepest where teachers grade most.
Rubrics You’ll Recognise
These are not rubrics we invented. Most of them are documents that already carry authority in a classroom — which is exactly why they are worth starting from. Browse 500 ready-made rubrics, reviewed by our team.
Official State Assessment Rubrics
The writing rubrics states actually score their assessments with, from across the country. If your district’s expectations are shaped by your state test, this is where you start.
Smarter Balanced Writing Rubrics
The performance-task writing rubrics, including the state-specific versions used across the consortium.
AP and IB Course Criteria
For classes graded to those programmes’ own criteria, rather than to something approximating them.
Deepest Where You Grade Most
The collection is strongest in writing, spanning primary opinion pieces through to high school argument essays, with maths, science, social studies, world languages and the arts alongside.
Find the Right One in Under a Minute
One search runs across all three shelves at once. Filter by grade level, or switch on “aligned only” to see just the rubrics already tagged to standards. Then preview any rubric in full before you touch it — every criterion, every level, every point value — because deciding from a title is how you end up rewriting it anyway.
The Moment You Use It, It’s Yours
Using a rubric makes you your own copy. Reword a criterion, add or remove a level, reweight the points, cut the one about presentation that never applied to your class. Nothing you do touches the original, which stays exactly as it was for everyone else.
And if you want to change it further once you are inside an assignment, ask GradingPal — describe the change in plain words and it proposes the edits for you to accept or reject, one at a time.
Or Build One From Your Standards
If nothing on the shelves fits, start from what you are actually teaching. Pick the standards this assignment targets and GradingPal drafts a rubric against them, which you then edit like any other. Rubrics from the library arrive with their standards already tagged, so the mastery picture starts building from the first assignment rather than the fifth.
A Department Writes a Rubric Once
When you create a rubric, GradingPal offers to share it with your school there and then. Nobody has to run a shared drive, chase a version, or remember which folder the good one is in. Over a term a department accumulates a set that everyone marks to — which is the actual mechanism behind consistent grading across a faculty, and it costs nobody an administrative job.
From Shelf to Graded, in One Click
“Use rubric” hands straight into assignment creation with the criteria and levels already filled in. Add your student work and grade. Sunday night, a persuasive-essay assignment for eighth grade: filter to middle school writing, preview two argumentative rubrics, pick one, rename a criterion, done in four minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I change a library rubric?
Yes. Using a rubric makes your own copy, so you can reword criteria, change levels, or reweight anything. The original stays in the library exactly as it was for everyone else.
Can I use my own rubric instead?
Yes, and that has always worked. Upload it, paste it, build it in GradingPal, or import it from Google Classroom criterion for criterion. The library is an addition, not a replacement.
Where do the ready-made rubrics come from?
Most are documents that already carry authority in classrooms — the writing rubrics states score their assessments with, Smarter Balanced performance-task rubrics, and AP and IB course criteria. Our team reviews what goes on the shelf.
Can my department share rubrics?
Yes. New rubrics offer school sharing at the moment you create them, so a department builds a shared set without anyone having to administer one.
Do library rubrics work with standards?
Yes. Rubrics on the shelf arrive with their standards already tagged, so if you track standards the mastery picture starts building from your first assignment.
Is the rubric library free?
Yes, it is included on the free plan along with 50 submissions a month. There is no separate rubric tier and no per-rubric charge.
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Start From a Rubric That Works
Browse the shelves, preview anything in full, and make it yours the moment you use it. Included on the free plan, with 50 submissions a month, any assignment type.