On Redmenta, you can evaluate student work in two different ways: rubrics-based evaluation and percentage-based grading. These two methods serve different purposes, but they can also complement each other.
Here’s how they work, what makes them different, and how you might combine them in your teaching.
A rubric is a scoring guide that breaks an assignment into key criteria (such as content, structure, or creativity) and describes different levels of performance for each. Instead of just giving a single grade, it shows students what quality looks like step by step, from beginner to excellent. This makes evaluation more transparent and helps students understand both their strengths and what they need to improve.
When you enable Rubrics evaluation in the worksheet settings, you’ll see an empty template to start from. You can:
Once complete, your rubric is saved automatically and will be visible to students before they complete the worksheet. This way, they know exactly what’s expected and what “success” looks like.
The second method is percentage-based grading, where you decide the thresholds for performance and attach feedback to each range.
By default, the scale is empty with 0% and 100%. You can:
You can also choose whether to display feedback as text, letters (A–F), or numbers. These settings save automatically and can be reused across future worksheets.
Let’s have an overview of these two evaluation methods!
Feature
Rubrics-Based Evaluation
Percentage-Based Grading
Purpose
Gives detailed, criterion-based feedback
Summarises overall performance with clear ranges
Transparency for students
High – students see exactly what is expected per criterion
Medium – students see their overall percentage and feedback
Customization
Define criteria, weights, and descriptions
Define percentage intervals and attach feedback or grades
Best suited for
Complex, open-ended tasks like essays, projects, or presentations
Objective tasks like quizzes, tests, or practice worksheets
Student experience
Students understand strengths and weaknesses in detail
Students get a quick snapshot of where they stand
Can they work together?
Yes – rubric results are converted into a percentage, which can then be used in percentage grading
Yes – percentage grading can display the overall score from the rubric
Although rubrics and percentage grading are different, they can work hand-in-hand. When you evaluate with a rubric, the system automatically calculates the percentage achieved. This percentage can then feed into the percentage-based grading scale you’ve set up.
This means you can give students detailed, criterion-based feedback (via the rubric) and a clear summary grade or performance band (via percentages).
Example: A student’s essay might be rated as “Good” in structure, “Excellent” in argument, and “Satisfactory” in grammar. These rubric ratings total 82%, which falls into your percentage band of 75–90% = “Nice work! You’re close to mastering it.”
In this way, students know both why they received the grade and how well they performed overall.
Choosing between rubrics-based evaluation and percentage grading depends on what you want students to learn from the assessment:
By selecting the right evaluation method — or combining both — you can make an assessment not just about the grade, but about growth.
