Streamlining Assessment: Designing Effective Rubrics with Generative AI

Term: Fall 2025

Date: October 28th, 2025

Time: 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Location: Graduate Life Center 40 

Instructor: Larry Cox II, Xiaoyan Ma, Dawn Follin, & Lumbini Barua

Presented By: Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS)

Description:

As faculty explore using Generative AI in their teaching, a key area of interest is assessment. How can these new AI tools help us create clearer expectations and provide more consistent feedback without adding to our workload? This hands-on workshop dives into that question, focusing specifically on using GenAI to design, develop, and implement effective rubrics.


We will share practical experiences and prompting strategies for leveraging AI as an assessment design partner. The session will cover the fundamentals, including the definition and value of rubrics, before moving into a guided, hands-on process. Participants will learn how to craft precise prompts to generate detailed rubrics for different types of assignments, and how to implement them into your instruction. Through interactive activities, you will create a rubric for a standard lesson-level assignment or tackle a more complex, course-level project involving game-based learning. You’ll leave this session with a ready-to-adapt rubric and a clear workflow for implementing AI-assisted assessment in your own courses.