Reflective Rubrics in Google Classroom

Recently I was helping a group of high school teachers get started with Google Classroom. One of the participants asked about an easy way to fill out scoring guides when using Google Classroom. When she asked that, I thought for a few seconds and showed her how to add her scoring guide as an attachment in a Google Classroom assignment. She was happy with that solution, so for the time being, I moved on to the next question.  The more I thought about it, though,  I realized that  while this was a great way to substitute technology for paper and make grading a more efficient process, that we could modify the activity and work flow to get students to engage with their work 

and the teacher on a deeper level. ​ I went back to my office, looked at the rubric that teacher shared with me and modified it by adding a column for self-assessment and a row for student comments. Those two small modification transformed this ordinary rubric into a reflective tool that can be used to springboard conversations about student work between the student and teacher. 

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