Last week Brian Panulla, one of our Flex developers, flew up to Vancouver from Portland to meet with us about something we have been talking about since the summer: creating a a document standard for rubrics and a program that allows teachers to create, edit, and share those rubrics with their colleagues.  The meetings were a resounding success, one of the several that have come out of the OpenEd 2009 conference in Vancouver last summer. In two days of meetings we hammered out the requirements, some user stories, and the basic architecture. Brian will begin iterating later this month, and if all goes well, we will have a working prototype in about two or three months.

More sophisticated prototypes are to follow

The rubric module will not just be for users of COMARKER™, but for teachers everywhere to create and share their rubrics. Of course, rubrics built with the new system will be fully interactive in COMARKER™, but since we are all about mass collaboration, everyone will be invited to share.