What is a Rubric versioning?
Rubric Versioning is a guided workflow that helps simplify how changes are saved when updating a rubric.
The goal of creating a new version of a rubric is to help preserve historical data that was created by previous versions of the rubric. With this guided workflow, we hope to reduce the amount of effort and worry one may have when they make a change to a rubric to then realize the downstream damages it causes a minute too late.
What is a Rubric version?
A Rubric version is a copy/clone of the rubric that retains all of the new updates that were made.
How do I trigger the Rubric Versioning workflow?
Rubric Versioning workflow automatically triggers when a change is made to a rubric. However, only notable changes will require that a new version of the rubric needs to be created.
Rubric Updates that require a new version
Creating a new section under these types:
Scoring section
Auto-fail section
Bonus section
Deleting section, criteria, or options
Updating any scoring field such as:
Changing the point value of an option
Changing the weight value of sections
Making individual options auto-fail
Adding a new scoring option
Making updates to sections
Changing section type Ex. Changing a section from Standard to Bonus
Changing section settings Ex. Adding feedback required fields
Rubric updates that do not require a new version
Updating the wording of the Rubric Title, Sections, Criteria, or Options
Updating the Criteria Explanation Field
Drag and drop sections, criteria, or options
Create a new non-scoring sections
A non-scoring section is a section that only contains non-scoring criteria or is limited to only be able to have non-scoring criteria
Add NEW options to non-scoring criteria
Add NEW options to feedback fields
What is the Rubric Versioning Workflow?
After making any change to a rubric, you will be prompted whether or not you will want to create a new version of the rubric.
If the change made was a notable update, you will be required to create a version. If the change made was not notable, no version is required.
Creating a new rubric version will require providing a new rubric name. By default we will add "Updated" + current date as the rubric name if no custom name is provided.
Example: [QA] Rubric 3.0 Updated 01/03/2023
The final step involves deciding whether or not you want to bulk update Agent QA automations to use the new version of the rubric. To learn more about how bulk updating automations, read this article here!
After creating a new version of the rubric, the new version can be found either on the Rubric page or in the Rubric Folder the original rubric is located in.
Optional Rubric Versioning Prompts
When making the following changes:
Updating the wording of the Criteria or Options
Changing per option conditional feedback requirements
Historically, these changes will have downstream effects on Reporting as well as immediately current in use grading.
While these updates are now currently allowed, instead of being able to save the change immediately, we will bring you through a two step process to confirm the change. The first prompt will share that "notable updates" were made.
To proceed with your changes, click on "No, update current version" to be brought to a second prompt where you can read about the potential impact of your changes before clicking "Continue" to finalize saving your rubric updates.