Tools for Creating Rubrics (and where to find rubrics)
There are some very helpful online tools for creating rubrics, though it is not difficult to create one in a Word document or a spreadsheet. Templates can also be useful as a starting point. See the end of this section for a number of templates you can download.
There is also an Excel spreadsheet you can download that has blank templates for all three types of rubrics. This can be a useful place to create and store rubrics as it is easy to copy and paste and edit without losing your formatting. You can do the same with a Google spreadsheet, and here is a link to make a copy of a Google spreadsheet that is identical to the Excel spreadsheet below.
Several online sites also have existing rubrics that you can use or adapt to your own assignments.
Houghton Mifflin Writing Rubrics Grades 2 to 5Grades 6-8
Fairfax County Public School foreign language rubrics
Kathry Schrock has links to tech-related rubrics.
Online Tools
There are a number of websites that actually build rubrics - with your input - for you.
Here's a video introduction to iRubric.
And here's link to Rubistar.
A relatively new website, still in beta, is called QuickRubric.
A simple one at Recipes4Success.
If you want to take your use of rubrics a step further, ForAllRubrics lets you create and keep them online, and easily share the results with your students and parents.